we are almost out of time. is there any response from the campaign waiting of her staff? i did talk to a woodby campaign here, she s a demanding boss. she s blunt and direct. i imagine if she s asked about that if there is any kind of media, we are seeing that being with the evidence flow in announcement. really what i imagine her response is going to be that maybe a gender thing that former staffers are taking at her with, in the huffington post that she s a tough boss and staffers going so far saying worse than that. all the women have to be nice. she knows that. reporter: exactly. ali vitali, thank you very much. go warm up. virginia governor, ralph northam s first interview since his black face scandal.
he had been a democrat, he had been independent. is this a way to make your decision, go on a road trip? first we went to the dentist with him, now we re going to kansas with him. what s next? this is more candid than the dozen of more candidates running for president. i think what makes beto s situation a little different is if he does decide to get in this race, he does have a campaign waiting who are already building an organization. they even managed to get some top flight talent in some of these earlier primary states. possibly even some of his closest friends. what is the burden? again, donald trump has defied the polls, defied convention. he changed his mind on a number of issues. what is the bar for democrats in the sense that beto o rourke represented a district just outside el paso down at the border. what would be done to address visa overstays?
of the places he s neither doing his day job in the senate nor campaigning in the early states? it s like that he are kind of running a campaign waiting for the field to come to them. he s in a relatively good place. he has the highest favorable ratings of anybody in the republican field. but i think he thinks this race is going to come him. ted cruz will cake take away that mantel from him. that is what it seems like to me. you get into the sports cliches at this point. there s a certain truth to being hungry and grinding it out and working for it, and it does seem like he is getting absolutely 100% outhustled by ted cruz and chris christie in new hampshire. particularly cruz has figured out is you win these things not by being the most popular, you win hem by winning delegates. 2008 or 2012 or earlier ones before that, these things about
cheering this decision as a bold move by romney that will help energize the base and show voters that romney is really serious about economic change. the two men will appear together for the first time as running mates in norfolk, virginia with the uss wisconsin. the old battleship as a backdrop. then they will begin a bus tour that will take them toward the republican national convention in tampa. that begins in about three weeks. we ll bring you mitt romney s announcement live. we re standing by for that from norfolk, virginia. let s bring in our own jim acosta on the scene in norfolk for us now. you re there. that crowd is getting a bigger and bigger. folks are showing up to hear history unfold. that s right, wolf. i just got confirmation from a senior romney adviser this is not earth shattering. it s obviously a given. paul ryan will be here for the announcement later on this morning. we can also report a new twitter handle has been set up for the wisconsin congressma
with phone calls and mailers trying to make up their minds before they mail them back. they said any campaign waiting for south carolina january 21st primary first to then shift gears in florida risks losing the big sunshine state. they have organized in most of the counties, each of the candidates. starting to send out mailers. some ads are running in key markets in the state. i think they realize if you wait to the week before you will lose a lot of votes in florida. reporter: the romney campaign not only has a double-digit lead in three florida polls right now but also leads in organization, boots on. ground. only campaign that is buying tv on the ground including a brand new spanish language spot. the polls show half the ñ voters are on the fence waiting to make up their mind in a few days or a few weeks a lot could change before the january 31st primary. candidates understand, they can t wait for south carolina. today, right now, romney is up in palm beach county at a public