BOSTON — With polls showing Mitt Romney losing ground to President Obama and some conservatives publicly fretting that he has lost the summer, the presumptive Republican nominee is heading into a critical stretch under pressure to alter the course of his campaign.
Romney will have several chances to do so over the next three weeks, starting with the selection of a running mate, which could come any day. At the end of the month, Republicans will gather in Tampa for a four-day convention that will provide the former Massachusetts governor a chance to reintroduce himself to the country and reset the race on his terms.
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Romney’s effort gets underway Saturday in Virginia, when he begins a four-day bus tour through swing states that will include his wife, Ann, and several possible running mates.
By showing the candidate connecting with blue-collar America, the tour is designed to help Romney shed the caricature that the Obama campaign has tried to draw of him as an elitist who looks out only for the wealthiest. Romney plans to tour the USS Wisconsin in Norfolk and to swing by a bakery in Ashland, Va., on Saturday. He will stage a rally Sunday at the NASCAR Technical Institute in Mooresville, N.C., near Charlotte.
Aboard his campaign plane Friday evening, Romney told reporters: “Bus tour, it’s great! It’s great to be out campaigning. .
Romney will have several chances to do so over the next three weeks, starting with the selection of a running mate, which could come any day. At the end of the month, Republicans will gather in Tampa for a four-day convention that will provide the former Massachusetts governor a chance to reintroduce himself to the country and reset the race on his terms.
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Romney’s effort gets underway Saturday in Virginia, when he begins a four-day bus tour through swing states that will include his wife, Ann, and several possible running mates.
By showing the candidate connecting with blue-collar America, the tour is designed to help Romney shed the caricature that the Obama campaign has tried to draw of him as an elitist who looks out only for the wealthiest. Romney plans to tour the USS Wisconsin in Norfolk and to swing by a bakery in Ashland, Va., on Saturday. He will stage a rally Sunday at the NASCAR Technical Institute in Mooresville, N.C., near Charlotte.
Aboard his campaign plane Friday evening, Romney told reporters: “Bus tour, it’s great! It’s great to be out campaigning. .