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Election battle brewing over Medicare reform
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How are both sides approaching issue?
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- Date Aug 16, 2012
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Man who wants to replace Biden had some -- that the vice president's expense today and -- political correspondent Carl Cameron tells us the guy at the top of the GOP ticket.
Has his own message about hope and change.
On a -- scheduled only for closed door fund raisers Mitt Romney stepped up his campaign played in South Carolina some of the -- and sketched out why he thinks his approach to Medicare is better than the president's my plan.
Presents no.
Change.
The plan stays the same.
In Ohio Paul Ryan riled up -- north -- crowd blasting the president for taking 760 billion dollars.
Out of Medicare to fund his health care law president Obama's campaign calls this an achievement.
Using raiding Medicare to pay for obamacare is and achievements.
On a crucial issue for seniors both sides say they relish the fight.
This is exactly what we want to be talking about these are the substantive issues that will be decided.
For this country and you'll have huge impact.
On this country because of Obama care for the first time in decades the GO PCs Medicare reform as a winning political issue.
This debate we want to have this debate we need to happen -- that they were gonna win.
Bryant's getting feisty or his opening line today it was a singer Edison -- -- -- It is great to be here in north -- -- is Joseph Biden might say it's great to be here in Nevada.
Biden recently thought it was a North Carolina when it was actually Virginia Romney in South Carolina was asked about Harry Reid does substantiated -- recently that Romney paid no taxes in recent years.
Harry Reid said the charge is totally.
Faults I'm sure waiting for -- to put up who -- was that told him what he says they told them I don't believe it for a minute by the way but every year I've paid at least 13%.
And and if you -- -- in addition the -- that goes to charity whether never gets well above 20% Bryant today wrapped up Romney's trade criticism of the president.
For not halting China's unfair trade practices currency manipulation and theft of US intellectual property.
President Obama promised he would stop these practices he said he'd go to the met with China.
Instead they're treating him like a doormat Ryan argues that a vote and win for Romney Ryan would amount to an electoral mandate next year so that we'll have the moral authority.
The obligation the contract the covenant in the mandate.
To do what needs to be done to get this country back on track.
And Ryan plans a major Medicare rally this coming Saturday in the battleground state of Florida.
In the massive retirement development known as the villages.
And then on Monday -- reunite with Mitt Romney on the trail in New Hampshire for the first -- -- town hall together.
And it will take questions from the public -- and Carl down Florida I heard.
Ryan is going to be bringing his mom.
His mom will be there he's mentioned -- on the camp hill -- get -- show many times making the point that his Medicare and budget proposals are backed by her and he's a senior he cares an awful lot about.
OK Carl Cameron live in Cleveland tonight Karl --