Closed captioning of: Obama team focuses on Mitt Romney
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are on most american minds this election year.
president obama
's re-election team is setting its sights on one candidate --
mitt romney
. kristen welker is at the
white house
for us this morning. good morning.
>> reporter:
good morning, natalie. by the president's own admission he has a tough re-election battle given the economy. campaign officials say they are not wasting any time.
president obama
in campaign mode, dining out thursday night with donors who won a contest. meanwhile his re-election team is taking aim squarely at
mitt romney
. this new
web ad
paints
romney
as a flip-flopper, accusing him of changing his position on an
ohio union
issue twice in
24 hours
.
>>
i'm sorry if i created confusion.
>> reporter:
an
obama campaign
official told nbc news the tangs on
romney
makes sense. it would be strange for us to focus on candidates that did not have the resources and organization that give them the potential to win the nomination. we're not going to sit back and eat popcorn for a year as republican candidates distort the president's record. in a recent republican debate
rick perry
tried to paint
romney
as a flip-flopper but the attack fell flat.
>>
was it before he was before the --
>> reporter:
now some suggest perry is considering skipping upcoming debates.
>>
there are 18 more in the planning phases. there is no way the candidates can do all the debates.
>> reporter:
the current gop frontrunner
herman cain
appeared via satellite thursday night but eyebrows were raised earlier when the new york times said ex-aides described a campaign in chaos and an e-mail in which cain staffers were told do not speak to him unless you are spoken to. some say the story was fuelled by bad grapes from a few staffers. the canada datas will be out stumping today. cain will be in alabama.
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