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Election 2012: Obama to take stage after Clinton pitch
Among those giving warm-up speeches for the president Thursday night: Vice President Joe Biden and actress Eva Longoria.
Longoria, appearing on NBC’s “Today,” said she’s “been in the trenches” for Obama defending his record, and promised her speech will be very different from Clint Eastwood’s meandering remarks to the Republicans a week earlier.
“No empty chairs,” she promised, a reference to Eastwood’s conversation with an empty chair representing Obama.
Even as the president asks voters to stick with him, Mitt Romney and the Republicans keep nudging Obama’s supporters to rethink their allegiance to a president seeking re-election in a time of weak economic growth.
The party released a new ad Thursday called “The Breakup,” in which a woman tells the president: “This just isn’t working … You’re not the person I thought you were. … I think we should just be friends.”
On Obama’s big day, Romney was in Vermont and had no public schedule. He was preparing for the fall debates and planned to drive back to his home in New Hampshire in the afternoon.
Former President Bill Clinton set up Obama’s speech with a rollicking turn on the stage Wednesday in which he offered a strong defense of the president’s economic stewardship.
