David Plouffe
- David Plouffe is a senior adviser to President Obama. He was the architect of the president’s 2008 campaign, which he detailed in “The Audacity to Win.” He has worked on both state and federal campaigns, and served deputy chief of staff for Democratic leader Dick Gephardt in the U.S. House of Representatives and as executive director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
- Plouffe criticized Mitt Romney for being untrustworthy. He said Romney was “trying to be dishonest about what he intends to do as president” and that he was not only “switching positions; he’s trying to hide them” from voters.
- He has expressed confidence in the campaign’s standing in key swing states where they have challenged the Romney camp and in “every single one of them, we have a credible pathway to 50 percent." Plouffe said, “We win the election if it were held today.”
- Watch his most recent appearance on the show.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA)
- Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) is the majority leader of the U.S. House of Representatives, while also representing the 7th Congressional District of Virginia since 2001. He has served in several leadership positions for the Republican Party while in Congress, first serving as the House minority whip, and most recently, as the House majority leader after the Republicans gained the majority in the 2010 elections.
- Cantor is currently running for re-election in his district, facing a first-time candidate, Democrat Wayne Powell. Although Cantor is up in the polls, both sides are engaged in contentious ad campaigns.
- The House majority leader, who has appeared with Romney at campaign events in battleground Virginia, released a report last week that describes the Obama administration as “the imperial presidency.” Cantor writes that while both parties have “been known to test the bounds of their power, the breadth of the breakdown in the rule of law in recent years has reached new levels.” Citing examples of executive overreach, the report says, “There is no excuse for this continuous disregard of legislative authority and the Constitutionally-required separation of powers.”
- Cantor is also the co-author of “Young Guns: A New Generation of Conservative Leaders”, along with Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and GOP vice presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI). Here is his most recent appearance on Meet the Press.
Roundtable: Booker, Scarborough, Murphy, Guthrie, Brokaw
- Mayor Cory Booker (D) is serving his second term as mayor of Newark, N.J. Booker has made news recently for how he responded to constituents affected by the storm. Booker reached out via Twitter to Newark residents who were left without power, inviting them over to his home to charge devices and relax. Booker is considered a contender in New Jersey’s 2013 gubernatorial race. Here is his most recent show appearance.
- Joe Scarborough, co-host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, said Hurricane Sandy stalled Romney’s momentum. He said, “This was Mitt Romney’s best weekend and it stops; the momentum stops. You don’t know how it freezes the race, but you certainly know it’s a new dynamic in the race and it changes everything with a week to go.” He is also the author of “The Last Best Hope.” Here is Scarborough’s last Meet the Press appearance.
- Republican strategist Mike Murphy, in his most recent Meet the Press appearance, said the Romney campaign was closing the gender gap in this election. The prominence of issues such as Romney’s “binders full of women” comment, he said is “a shiny object attack. It’s the whole problem with the Obama campaign. Push it into small divisive things to make up for the lack of any big vision.”
- Savannah Guthrie is the co-host of the Today show. This week Guthrie was on Rock Center with Brian Williams reporting on the devastation of Hurricane Sandy. Guthrie has previously served as NBC News chief legal correspondent and White House correspondent. Watch her most recent Meet the Press appearance.
- NBC’s Tom Brokaw said it is unclear what impact Hurricane Sandy had on the election overall. Regardless, he said, “the country is ready to have this election over” and most people “have pretty much made up their minds.” Watch Brokaw’s most recent appearance on Meet the Press.
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- Eric Cantor: @EricCantor
- Cory Booker: @CoryBooker
- Joe Scarborough: @JoeNBC
- Mike Murphy: @murphymike
- Savannah Guthrie: @SavannahGuthrie
- Tom Brokaw: @tombrokaw
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Please question Eric Cantor on his lack of leadership for the last 4 years. Doing nothing to help the US economy, but actually hurting it during the debt ceiling debacle, voting to lower taxes for wealthy, against lowering taxes for middle class. Also, please expose how he convolves lowering taxes on "middle class" with lowering taxes for wealthy.
My concern about Sandy's effect on the election? Even if all polling places have electricity and the means in which to conduct an election, many voters may be unable to get to their polling places, especially those in a lower income bracket who rely on the subway system. Looking at the Political Party map of the U.S., that gives Romney an "unfair advantage" if those voters can't vote because of natural disaster. Something to consider.
For all of you on the fence about whether to re-elect this divisive, non-transparent, snide-acting, excuse-making, do-nothing president for another miserable four years without jobs, no hope, and plenty of fear of the future, along with a liberal media that is in the bag for him so they won't lose their gay marriage and tax-subsidized, free-for-all abortions, ala, the Benghazi coverup where they won't cover the Nixonian/Benghazi scandal, you need to look at these amazingly, shocking videos about allegations about our alleged crack smacking, closet homosexual president, that have also been buried by the liberal press:
You should also listen to Obama's college classmate here:
Forgot about the censorship of not being able to provide a link that I referred to above. Go to Youtube and search on the terms, "LARRY SINCLAIR" and "OBAMA"
Thought so, two weeks in a row, and these liberals refuse to cover the Benghazi coverup. Gregory and Todd should be fired. Tim Russert is rolling in his grave at how tilted this show has become.
Not that important anymore, look at the fiasco in New Jersey, New York, all this right here in the United States, do you think those people care about what happened Benghazi as they lay sleeping in shelters and outside, no water, electricty, etc.
You are SO wrong. If the people do not vote for Romney, we as a nation are going to all be living like the people in NY and NY are right now. We are all going to be broke and homeless, if not already, not from an act of God though, but because of Obama's failed economic, fiscal and monetary policies. We are running out of time on the federal deficit from mushrooming out of control when interest rates on the debt begin to rise. Forget about fueling your vehicle or being able to afford groceries, even if you do get your government cheese of $200 food stamps. Romney can turn it around, but if we re-elect Obama, it's game over for our nation.
When you recapped memorable moments of this campaign you missed a major Democratic fiasco; The clear majority boo-ing the amendment to the platform, Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.
The people of the US have become so heartless, ruthless, etc. Gov. Christie is doing what he thinks is right for the people of his state. In a crisis put all politics aside, along with feelings, differences to help the people
You really don't think Obama cares do you?
President Obama doesn't like white people.
This is Obama's Katrina.
He was the first one to go along with Kanye West's racist comments about Bush during Katrina, were he proclaimed, "George Bush don't care about black people."
It's just the reverse now with the NY's and NJ's dumpster diving for food and water. Obama gets along with Jay Z, who shouted, "no more white president" four years ago.
@Christina Jo, I agree 100%. It was like a breath of fresh air, to see the cooperation between Gov. Christie and Pres. Obama in a non-partisan manner, with the only concern being for the citizens of New Jersey.
For all the damage that Sandy caused, I fervently hope that some lasting good came out of it. #1 being that global warming/climate change is not a hoax, as the petroleum industry has legally bribed far too many people into believing.
So, Majority Leader Cantor, the House member most responsible for undercutting Speaker Boehner's attempts towards Moderation, is far more responsible for the lack of new jobs than President Obama is, in tandem with his Senate Counterpart, Minority Leader McConnell, who decided it was so important to prevent Obama from being reelected that he abused the filibuster so that a minority of the Senate was able to rule.
I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that Rep. Cantor doubled-down on Romney's Audacity of BS, as if by lying frequently enough the GOP will suppress not only the fact-checkers, but the common sense of the average citizen, who should have sufficient wisdom to understand that the GOP has done everything possible to hinder recovery from the Great Recession, with the expectation that we are a nation of ignoramuses who would be fooled into believing that Obama is responsible for the GOP obstruction.
After watching Meet the Press for over 55 years, I felt compelled to contact you about your program yesterday, you had Majority leader Cantor on and neglected to ask him about his efforts to defund FEMA in light of the hurricane Sandy disaster and reguarding Benghazi the cuts to the State Department security budget. By not calling on him to address these to critical points, it made me wonder if this was done to obfuscate or could you be in favor of Cantor's positions. This just an observation