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Gina McCarthy

...level, and I actually ended up getting Governor Romney to sign the Massachusetts Climate Plan...

Katie Fallon

...of a Massachusetts plan constructed by Mitt Romney . So it seemed like there was always ...

David Axelrod

...Motors that way. Again, in fact, Mitt Romney wrote a piece at the time saying, “Le...
...was, from the beginning, that Mitt Romney would be our opponent. There were a lo...
...I said, “I think it will probably be Romney , because the economy is going to b...
...second next.” So we were preparing for Romney . In some ways, he was—and I say thi...
...before that you had predicted that Governor Romney would end up being the nominee, thoug...

...beginning, and we framed it that way. Romney represented one philosophy. W...
...had worked at some of the places where Romney and his private equity firm had take...
...wanted to introduce elements of Romney 's record as governor that wer...
...State House was, like, two blocks from Romney 's campaign headquarters, so yo...
...that surfaced in September of 2012 of Governor Romney delivering remarks at a fundraiser, i...
...it, as well, in 2016. But it hurt Romney . Our polling had been very steady fro...
...on his own record, and probably more on Romney . Then he'd come back with fifty page...
...have mock debates. John Kerry played Mitt Romney very well. And the president, he wa...
...Kerry wasn't there. I played Romney . We had a little pepper round the da...
...some date,” or something like that. And Romney —I learned later that Rob Portman wa...
...Obama would do something like that. And Romney said, “Yes, and I'm sure that this i...
...laughed. And from that point on, Romney was in command. What was interestin...
...in command. What was interesting about Romney was, we prepared for one kind o...
...Romney was, we prepared for one kind of Romney , the guy who had campaigned as ...
...a conservative—he appeared as more like Romney , I think, really is. He i...
...earlier given the nominating speech for Romney at the Republican [National...
...was any kind of movement to be made by Romney , it was stopped. It was stopped cold—...
...that. Then he took a call from Romney . The call, it irritated him, an...
...you're still in a competitive—but Romney said, “You fooled us with the turnout...
...took that probably not in the way that Romney meant it. And then he called Bil...

Scott Gration

...he was going through a campaign with [Mitt] Romney . And for him to reach in and overrid...

Austan Goolsbee

...And that is, after the fact in 2012, Mitt Romney runs kind of on a platform of, “Well...

Jay Carney

...down to the choice between Obama and [Willard Mitt] Romney , we were fighting in the middle, no...
...There was no way it wouldn't be. Governor Romney was going to bring it up and try to us...
...celebrating. Then we took the call from Romney , so I was in the room for that famou...
...being like [laughs] —that's where Romney famously implied that it was like...
...I think we're all a lot less harsh on Romney these days because, by comparison, h...

Michael Steele

...plan from the 1990s. It was the Romney plan from Governor Romney o...
...the 1990s. It was the Romney plan from Governor Romney of Massachusetts. That narrative didn'...
...The economy, the narrative; Senator Romney declaring what he did about Russia wa...

Stephanie Cutter

...pretty much a net neutral, only because [Mitt] Romney had some issues on it, where he ha...
...our opponent. How did you define Mitt Romney , once he became the challenger? ...
...to tell the story as it related to Mitt Romney , and correcting the record of how h...
...another piece of the story, why didn't Romney say it? Because he never defende...
...that it was definitely going to be Romney , or did you think any of these othe...

...We always thought it was going to be Romney , but there was a moment where [Newto...
...bit, but we never took our eye off Romney . And the Gingrich piece never reall...
...We always thought it would end up being Romney , but we were prepared, I wouldn't sa...
...a big push around equal pay, and the Romney campaign was doing a conference call...
...remember right now, got asked, “Does Romney agree with equal pay?” It was ...
...us to just go right in and talk about Romney 's lack of support for equal pay. I...
...a trick question. It's yes or no. And Romney 's defense to that was that there wa...
...in the same brush, that this was Mitt Romney 's party, and he was never going t...
...strategy that we were employing on Romney . Were you surprised at all by hi...
...to change the narrative the next day. Romney had said something about Big Bird. Fo...

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