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The top of the ticket this is how you prepare for a debate, you do it with, you know, actual mock debates, with somebody playing the opponent, playing the moderator, which is what mike pence did. very aggressively. but the open question is even if that happened, would it matter because donald trump is a very, very different person than mike pence. >> two other quick points. number one, donald trump said he would be live tweeting. there was a lot of anxiety in republican circles when he said he was going to live tweet during the debate. essentially the staff was tweeting press releases, instant...

President obama in the many, many days of predebate preparation for governor remain knee and portman is the republican party's go-to man for this sort of thing. since 1996, he's been involved in all kinds of preparation of mock debates. let's listen in now. >> my grandfather bought it back in the 20s. he dropped out of college and took a big risk. there was a gas station right smear barber shop right there. but he put his heart into that because he believed that with my grandmother and this great land, they could create something of value. they restored the golden lamb and president obama? my ...

Mr. senor, great to see you. you've done a lot of mock debates. you know the vice president is going to talk a lot about the ryan budget, but we know the ryan budget is not all the romney budget. how much does he defend his own budget versus the romney ticket? >> first of all, he has to make the case about the choice in this election. things have been rough over the last four years, and it's incumbent on president obama and vice president biden to explain what exactly has happened over the last four years. 23 million americans out of work. 47 million americans on food stamps. 1 in 6 americans ...

Betting more on paul ryan. ryan took a bit of an exertion yesterday while he was practicing in florida saying that the vice president will probably come at me like a cannonball. but that the obama record, as ryan put it, is his achilles heel. ryan is in kentucky after debate preps in florida and virginia. he's done three mock debates. meantime, the vice president has been in delaware focusing on ryan's book, on his speeches, on his budget. he says he wants to give ryan no chance to say this was not our position. the white house reluctant to address the debate last week saying that next week th...

>> reporter: he's been preparing, arguably for seven years or more, but very, very aggressive in the last few months. he will go mind the doors and do additional rehearsing, talking with the staff about how to do this. the evolution has changed a little bit. he has been doing a lot of mock debates with ohio senator rob portman, thrs but there is a long-standing process where he does q&a with his staff, trying to hone the rhetoric. the truth of the matter is, as handicap ors both sides of the aisle watch, have you the folks from the president obama trying to lower his expectations and the romne...