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Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty has resigned as a national co-chairman of Republican Mitt Romney's presidential campaign and ruled out any 2014 political races in Minnesota, in order to lobby for Wall Street.
Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty has resigned as a national co-chairman of Republican Mitt Romney's presidential campaign to lobby for Wall Street. He also has ruled out a run for governor or Senate in Minnesota in 2014.
After presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney decided on a running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan's carefully planned transition from congressman to vice presidential candidate began — in deep secret.
Guest lineups for the Sunday TV news shows:
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney introduced Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin as his vice presidential running mate on Saturday, turning to the architect of a deeply conservative and intensely controversial long-term budget plan to remake Medicare and cut trillions in federal spending.
Guest lineups for the Sunday TV news shows:
President Obama and his Democratic allies aren't waiting for presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney to reveal his vice presidential choice. They're already trying to scuff up those considered by political insiders to be most likely to join the GOP ticket.
In late 1975, Los Angeles Times political reporter Bob Shogan found himself sitting next to then-Sen. Howard H. Baker Jr. of Tennessee. He was on a flight to Florida to cover the primary pitting President Ford against former California Gov. Ronald Reagan.
When it comes to Mitt Romney, political insiders tend to agree on two things: Every name floated as the Republican nominee-in-waiting's vice presidential pick brings some political baggage and, baggage notwithstanding, low-key Ohio Sen. Rob Portman is the likeliest choice.
President Obama and his Democratic allies aren't waiting for Republican Mitt Romney to reveal his vice presidential choice. They're already scuffing up the likeliest picks.
As GOP presumptive presidential nominee Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts, comes down to the wire on his vice presidential pick, one thing is clear: The odds favor a vice president whose last name begins with a P: Pawlenty, Portman or Petraeus.
Wide-eyed and salivating, hundreds of journalists dream of being the chosen one who breaks the news of Mitt Romney's choice for a running mate, even before word goes out on his campaign's fancy new "Who will be Mitt's VP?" phone app.
It had been mere hours since Mitt Romney angered Palestinians by saying Israel's culture was part of the reason the country has prospered. But that didn't stop former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, previously one of Mr. Romney's most bitter rivals in the Republican presidential primaries, from rushing to his defense Monday.
Mitt Romney plans to stay on the attack in the race for the White House, but mounting pressure on the Republican presidential candidate to release his tax returns threatens to stunt his momentum as he courts voters across key Midwestern battlegrounds.
"Barack Obama's failed us. But look, it's understandable. A lot of people fail at their first job," former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty said in one of the convention's harder-hitting speeches.
They really, really like Obama, but not sure they’ll back him →
"is the first president to create more excuses than jobs. In his view, it's [George W. Bush's] fault. It's the bank's fault. It's Europe's fault. It's Congress's fault," said former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty. "Mr. President, if you want to find fault, I suggest you look in the mirror."
