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DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz takes the temperature of president's battle for the Sunshine State in wake of ObamaCare ruling
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No matter one of the biggest battlegrounds in the presidential race which is of course the state of Florida.
President Obama and governor Romney both need of course to win over in the middle they called -- four quarter.
In Florida which becomes so essential.
To winning that state but the Obama campaign has spent millions on an ad blitz across the sunshine state over the past couple of months.
And so far the -- campaign has not aired.
Any team that TV ads there although Romney's super pac has.
Doesn't advertising in Florida so is the president concerned.
About how he's doing in Florida that's one of the questions we -- to take on tonight with flirts -- moment.
And DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz joins us now congressman welcome good to having here tonight thank you -- What are your homes and eight it's good to be with you it's your home state over the course the last couple alliance President Obama has spent about four million dollars.
In advertising money in the state.
-- do you think he's concerned are you concerned at all about Florida.
Well in Florida is a is a critical battleground states it is.
Year in the cycle and cycle out at how -- all eyes are on Florida and we are -- and in the and in the process of continuing to set -- the most dynamic.
Largest grassroots presidential campaign -- Across the country but expressly in Florida we have offices open around the state.
-- tens of thousands of volunteers doing door knocks and phone calls and.
You know aren't grassroots people -- campaign is our focus and we're gonna make sure that the two paths and two visions that are.
The choice in front of Florida voters and American voters are are very clear.
We win -- making the case that that we've got a long way to go but we've made progress under president Obama's policies.
Going from the where we were hemorrhaging 750000.
Jobs a month to.
Now a little more than three years later we've had 27 straight months of private sector job growth.
The importance of the -- Affordable Care Act and being the law of the land.
Huge for seniors in my state you know -- want that I'm tired of standing behind seniors at that drug store counters.
Who have to leave you with their descriptions behind because they can't afford.
The out all the ones that doctor has prescribed in the doughnut hole I -- What -- -- not immune to it on my constituents about.
Florida which has an eight point 6% unemployment rate.
-- higher than the nation's average and it's it's a little better than it was at at at the worst of things said that that's one of the hurdles -- -- to be.
Sort of across there in Florida for both candidates really intent of what kind of solutions they would provide.
The housing crisis hit Florida very deeply construction workers laid off in large numbers in Florida as well trade.
Has also weighed on folks in Florida and it's interesting you know I -- -- we look at the health care numbers in Florida it.
The majority of those who were asked 53%.
That's right isn't -- is a Florida registered voters fall 53% say that they'd like to see health care repeal.
In your state.
Well if you look at the recent polling bears a good reason that President Obama and in all the recent polling I've found the most conservative leaning poll -- the most aggressive.
Is that it ahead of Mitt Romney and not and in every poll that's been done recently.
And that's because the progress that we've made under president Obama's policies.
Through job creation through focusing on the middle class and working families through making the kinds investments in education and health care.
That President Obama has has made a priority.
Vs Mitt Romney who wants to.
Drag us back to the failed policies of the past.
Who said that -- when he was in Nevada of all places but this is important in Florida that we should just let it was -- do anything about housing.
I -- -- just let it hit rock bottom and die -- and then let the market bounced back and and that way out some of -- got to come in and buy up all the properties and and resell them.
That's just add another example of how out of touch Mitt Romney is what the needs of people in Florida -- another example is his.
If I mean I'm not feeling bad days and -- -- and -- we're all done.
He went out and Medicare as we know it vanished and I'm and -- had come under the wrong talking -- -- and hoping that Floridians care about many times talking points these are facts.
Got a huge contrast.
I had to direct and we think that but the fact is that there's a lot of folks in Florida and other states across the country who feel like a number of these things with -- -- housing prices of these wanna talk about that for example.
Have not worked in edit it for closure rates are still extremely high.
And people are very concerned and -- now they are I think at a at a juncture a lot of the middle of the road voters in Florida.
Along that I work harder and they're wondering should we you know how the president stick around -- we -- that you know -- -- -- usually -- for the other alternative.
I mean that's what middle of the voters think right now they look at ball -- -- -- also shot kind of in between so what do -- -- that actually bank.
Voters in the middle and -- -- No voters in the middle are and not so sure as what -- a fan base voters in the middle.
Are leaning toward that President Obama and especially on housing.
Because Mitt Romney said -- let's just let housing hit rock bottom the Republicans in congress and embraced -- event not Mitt Romney.
-- answer to the housing crisis is to repeal all the law's repeal all the programs and do not think.
I'm sorry but that we had we need to make sure that we don't leave those homeowners -- -- upside down.
In nine minutes -- 211 days what was anything that would in any -- trying to actually helping them or not that is clearly a decision I've -- to -- -- The foreclosure it's been coming down housing is beginning to improve outside and let Floridians are concerned about that they're concerned about that Mitt Romney who.
It's saying that the private sector experience he's got is the reason that we -- elect him president when he was governor of Massachusetts he was 47 out of fifty in job creation.
Now -- we learned that he has an investment in a Bermuda corporation.
That -- shadowy.
And die you know added that there's a real concern over the investments that he's hiding and was he trying to abated paying taxes that he would have normally -- -- So those big AP's story and -- -- -- story that came out you'll continue to leave questions about Mitt Romney's finances.
And what he's trying to -- hide my -- to release his tax returns he's only releasing the other.
Formalized -- that to happen all the Saturday -- and that is going to be you know I feel like -- allegedly -- so long felt like it was so far away now feels like it's radicalism and -- base around the corner thank you so much congressman last -- good to.
