to the republican party. we ll talk about how all the events this week can affect the senate races. yeah, yeah. it s really starting to affect senate races and any republican candidates in blue or purple states are having to distance themselves. i want to take my final secondsseconds here to respond to what chip said about romney focusing on the economy. that s what he needs to do. the second he talks about the economy, people talk about his tax plan and people start to ask him again what loopholes he s going to close. he has to answer that question by november 6th, or he can t really talk about the economy with much credibility. we know in the big interview on meet the press with david he did not have an answer to that specific question. thank you so much. up next former pennsylvania governor ed rendell will join the news nation. i ll talk about romney s plan it to salvage his campaign and how
elizabeth warren in massachusetts and tim kaine in virginia and tammy baldwin in wisconsin. the gop s concerned quoting the senate s third ranking republican as saying, we need governor romney to dood well. i think there s obviously a down-ballot impact from the performance of the top of the ticket. that sounds logical. let s bring in former pennsylvania governor ed rendell. thank you for joining us, governor. my pleasure, tamron. let s play what speaker boehner said a few minutes ago. here s how he deflected. you have both campaigns on both sides say thing that get off the message. the message is, let s stay focused on jobs, because that s what the american people want us to stay focused on. that was the answer to the question about whether he agreed with the 47%. what do you make of his advice trying to get back to jobs, which i don t know how we ever stop talking about jobs on any day? well, speaker boehner is
slapstick and not presidential. you know the list of presidents that have appeared on snl. what do you make of this notion that he thinks it s not presidential? well, first of all, i think that decision could very well change. i think so, too. especially if especially if snl, the caricature of mitt romney, really takes off in the next couple of weeks. the campaign might feel it better for romney to go on the show and to say, hey, i m lighthearted about it. i have a sense of humor. i m in on the joke to try to kind of defuse it and to lighten up mitt romney out on the campaign trail. we hear that s something people feel he needs to do. i want to talk about some of the past presidents on snl as romney says it s not presidential. i m george w. bush, republican candidate for president of the united states. gym governor of our nation s second largest state, which is bigger than every other state
governor romney. scott brown has a big debate tonight with elizabeth warren. elsd that s not the view he had of the world here. we talked about four gop candidates distancing themselves from romney. the list goes on and on here. you know this game better than anyone else. how confident are you that democrats i don t want to use the word capitalize because it seems exploitive, but in the end draw a line between the republican party leader, the nominee, and the entire democratic party who don t subscribe to this same view? no, there s no question. p if you re out there and you re republican and you re in a blue or purple state like nevada, you ve got to draw some distinctions and make it clear that you don t agree with the front-runner and your ticket. the presidential election, if let s say president obama carries the state, that doesn t guarantee that the democratic senate candidate wins. but it makes it a lot harder for
it s really ground zero for latino voters because it s changing, for example. it was only the cuban-american population in miami, but now there s a third of a million puerto rican voters. obama has the advantage, but it s turnout. for romney it s convincing people with the economy they can vote republican. obama needs the turnout and needs to keep those numbers high. florida could be won by less than 100,000 votes. every vote counts. that s why both are there and participating in this particular forum. thank you so much. greatly appreciate it. to another political story today. the tale of two tapes. on monday hidden video surfaced of mitt romney saying 47% vote for him because they re dependent on the government. a 13-year-old tape emerged with obama talking about the