WASHINGTON — Confidence is brimming in Republican Mitt Romney's campaign that he will defeat President Obama this fall, a top advisor said Sunday.
"There’s clearly a feeling in Boston that Gov. Romney is going to beat President Obama," Ed Gillespie, an advisor to Romney's campaign, said on Fox News Sunday.
Gillespie was responding to a question from the show's host, Chris Wallace, who said an unnamed top Romney official said the biggest revelation about Obama's campaign recently was that it was not as good as they thought it would be.
Wallace cited the controversy this winter in which the White House angered Catholics over contraception coverage by employers and the Obama campaign's decision to go negative against Romney with attacks on his record at Bain Capital.
Polls have shown a neck-and-neck race between Obama and Romney, the presumptive Republican nominee. A CNN/ORC poll released Friday had Obama with the support of 49% of registered voters and Romney supported by 46%. Obama had a nine-point lead in the last poll, in April.
Gillespie, a former chairman of the Republican National Committee, predicted Romney's message would resonate with voters in November.
"Gov. Romney's experience and his record and his positive agenda for turning this country around, I think, are what’s going to prevail at the end of the day," he said. Gillespie downplayed the role of political gamesmanship in the race.
"We’re going to have a change in November because of Gov. Romney, not because of political tactics," he said.
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"There’s clearly a feeling in Boston that Gov. Romney is going to beat President Obama," Ed Gillespie, an advisor to Romney's campaign, said on Fox News Sunday.
Gillespie was responding to a question from the show's host, Chris Wallace, who said an unnamed top Romney official said the biggest revelation about Obama's campaign recently was that it was not as good as they thought it would be.
Wallace cited the controversy this winter in which the White House angered Catholics over contraception coverage by employers and the Obama campaign's decision to go negative against Romney with attacks on his record at Bain Capital.
Polls have shown a neck-and-neck race between Obama and Romney, the presumptive Republican nominee. A CNN/ORC poll released Friday had Obama with the support of 49% of registered voters and Romney supported by 46%. Obama had a nine-point lead in the last poll, in April.
Gillespie, a former chairman of the Republican National Committee, predicted Romney's message would resonate with voters in November.
"Gov. Romney's experience and his record and his positive agenda for turning this country around, I think, are what’s going to prevail at the end of the day," he said. Gillespie downplayed the role of political gamesmanship in the race.
"We’re going to have a change in November because of Gov. Romney, not because of political tactics," he said.
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