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President's final push
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Obama campaign spokesperson Jennifer Psaki explains
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- Date Nov 3, 2012
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Your -- highway the president is making a final pitch to voters his campaign spokeswoman.
-- thought he is joining us tonight and he -- here had to offer her thoughts on the race.
Again thank you so much for joining us.
-- Like to have you.
More I want talk about the ground game but before I get to that there's been some buzz about the president's comments in Springfield.
-- yesterday saying that voting is the best revenge against governor Mitt Romney.
He's closing days that might be asking what happened up hope and change why top of events.
-- here is very important we're here in Ohio this morning here in Ohio yesterday.
And the president let.
Reminding people in this game and Mitt Romney is closing campaign which -- it that is all scare tactic that scaring.
Auto workers across eight.
Laying out a false statement about them losing their jobs.
-- wanted to make sure it will help if they don't like the policies and Mitt Romney they don't like the plane is presenting -- that a lot.
They think there's better tonight and that power going to devote every voting and casting their ballot nothing more complicated than that.
I know the president met with team officials earlier today lots of folks in new York New Jersey suffering very badly in the aftermath of -- and -- fleeing for faster -- response.
The president is promising to cut the red tape what's he doing about it right now.
Well in the within the last two days every time he gets at this stage he gets on the on on the -- -- local officials with.
First responders with mayors and governors and he's focused on that.
Every day making sure people have the reason they need I -- -- Playing New York.
Yeah that weren't there.
I'm looking right.
Yes did come back the economy now this -- the president.
And they said he would cut the deficit in half by the end of his first time that the unemployment rate would be about five point 2% if we pass the stimulus plan.
That was -- last point three million people unemployed despite the fact that.
170000.
Jobs added last month most economists are saying is still very slow what's message to voters who are frustrated right now what that record.
-- During the worst economic recession of our lifetime we've had 32 straight months of private sector job growth.
Almost five and a half million jobs have been created we know we're moving in the right direction it needs to the faster the question -- Where do we go from here and the president has a better plan and a better vision for the middle class.
-- turn out to this is about.
-- a number of congressional leaders have been very upset by the fact that they say the White House continues to ignore their request for information.
On the -- attack that killed more Americans are charging there's a cover up underway.
Does the president of the American people a full accounting of what he knew and when he knew it before Election Day.
The president has been absolutely here.
And our record.
That tragedy.
Not time for politicizing tragedy as Mitt Romney and many Republicans are doing this time for getting down figuring out what happened releasing that information and learning from that moving -- and that's exactly what the president is doing.
Why wouldn't -- politicizing if you're just trying to bring -- the facts as to what happened when those four Americans were killed and addressing the public.
In a very open -- to just answer questions as to what happened.
I information administration I -- -- releasing information.
-- -- become available you know this is a tragic event.
The president when he's in the White House when he's on the phone and national security team.
He's focused every single day on making sure we get to the bottom of what happened and making that information available as you know the administration is participating.
With -- with reports and investigations that are going on.
Across the government.
And as soon as that information is available in the final report completed that will be released but this is not a time for treating this like a political football is what.
Mitt Romney and many -- The America.
All right -- thanks so much for joining us today and you've got quite a crowd behind you it's an idea of a busy busy weekend for all of you end up losing all the bad.
-- -- Thanks for joining us.