TPMDC David Plouffe
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney Dings Obama Adviser For Downplaying Jobs Numbers
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney suggested on Friday that President Obama fire his top political adviser for minimizing the role unemployment will play in the presidential election.
Obama aide David Plouffe told reporters at a breakfast hosted by Bloomberg that he didn't expect Americans to vote based on the raw unemployment rate, but rather their own personal sense of the economy.
Topics: 2012, 2012 Presidential Primaries, 2012 elections, Barack Obama, David Plouffe, Mitt Romney
Roundup
TPMDC Sunday Roundup
Ryan: Budget Deal 'Really Still A Drop In The Bucket'
Appearing on Meet The Press, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) said of the budget deal: "Well, we're here because the Democrats didn't pass a budget last year. I mean, for the first time since 1974, the House didn't even bother to try passing a budget last year. So that's why we're here. Now, I feel like we had a pretty good outcome. We represented one-third of the negotiators, but we got two-thirds of the spending cuts we were asking for. This is really still a drop in the bucket. We want to move from talking about saving billions of dollars to going on to saving trillions of dollars."
Plouffe: Ryan Plan 'Not Going To Become Law'
Appearing on Meet The Press, White House senior adviser David Plouffe was asked whether Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-WI) budget plan was dead on arrival. "It may pass the House. It's not going to become law," said Plouffe. "I--and I don't think the American people are going to sign up for something that puts most of the burden on the middle class, people trying to go to college, on senior citizens, while not just asking nothing of the wealthy, giving them at least a $200,000 tax cut. So that's a choice you're making."
Topics: Budget, Chuck Schumer, David Plouffe, Dick Durbin, Eric Cantor, Government Shutdown, Jeb Hensarling, Jeff Sessions, Paul Ryan, Roundup, Sunday Shows
Robert Gibbs
Gibbs On Tenure As Press Secretary: It Was 'Opportunity Of A Lifetime'
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs held his regular press briefing today -- the first since he announced that he will be stepping down. And as such, the subjects of his departure and the overall changes in White House staffing were quite prominent among reporters' questions.
"It is -- and you all know this because you do this as well -- it is an honor and a privilege to stand here, to work inside this building, to serve your country, to work for a president that I admire as much as President Barack Obama," said Gibbs. "I have been a member of his staff for almost seven years, and again it's a remarkable privilege. It is in many ways the opportunity of a lifetime, one that I will be forever thankful and grateful for."
"What I am going to do next is step back a bit, recharge some. We've been going at this pace for at least four years. I will have an opportunity to give some speeches, I will continue to provide advice and counsel to this building and this president. And I look forward to continuing to do that."
PERMALINK | COMMENTS | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (0)Topics: Barack Obama, David Axelrod, David Plouffe, Robert Gibbs
2010 elections
Plouffe: Christine O'Donnell's Tea Party Will Push GOP Presidential Field Far To Right
David Plouffe
Top Obama adviser David Plouffe told reporters today that the extreme positions of Christine O'Donnell, Sharron Angle and Rand Paul have had a measurable effect on improving Democratic voter enthusiasm and will make a "pronounced impact" on the 2012 presidential battle.
Plouffe said Democrats initially thought candidates like Angle and Paul would be "unique situations to their states," but when O'Donnell splashed onto the national scene with her ideas, the tea party extremism became a national force.
"She was ... the icing on the cake in terms of this," he said.
PERMALINK | COMMENTS | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (0)Topics: 2010 elections, 2012 elections, Barack Obama, DNC, David Plouffe, Pres '12, Sarah Palin
Roundup
TPMDC Morning Roundup
Congress Returns to Gridlock
Roll Call reports: "Congressional Democrats return to Washington this week with just three or four weeks to try to change the narrative that's driving this election season, but they acknowledge that the gridlock they left behind in August is all but certain to re-emerge. Both Democrats and Republicans concede a surging GOP has no incentive to cooperate with the majority, particularly in the Senate, where 60 votes are needed to pass almost everything. Given time constraints and election-year pressures, 'Our ability to do anything major is going to be limited,' Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) said last week."
Obama's Day Ahead
President Obama will receive the presidential daily briefing at 9:30 a.m. ET. He will deliver remarks at 10:30 a.m. ET, at the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Reception. He will meet at 11 a.m. ET with his national security team on Afghanistan and Pakistan. He will meet at 1:45 p.m. ET with a family at their home in Fairfax, Virginia, and hold a discussion on the economy at 2 p.m. ET. He will meet at the White House with seniors at 3:30 p.m. ET, and he will meet at 4:30 p.m. ET with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. He will deliver remarks to NCAA Champion Student Athletes at 5:45 p.m. ET.
Topics: 2010 elections, 2012 elections, Barack Obama, David Axelrod, David Plouffe, Joe Biden, Joe Sestak, Mitch McConnell, Pres '12, Roundup, Senate '10
Roundup
TPMDC Sunday Roundup
Tony Blair: 'You Can't Not Have Regrets About The Lives Lost'
Appearing on This Week, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was asked whether he had regrets about the Iraq War. "You can't not have regrets about the lives lost," said Blair. "I mean, you would be inhuman if you didn't regret the death of so many extraordinary, brave and committed soldiers, of civilians that have died in Iraq, or die still now in Afghanistan. And of course you feel an enormous responsibility for that, not just regret. And I say in the book the concept responsibility for me has its present and future tense, not just its past tense."
Blair: Radical Islam's Narrative 'Stretches Far Further Than We Think'
Also during his appearance on This Week, Blair addressed what he said were the complexities of the international situation. "What I think we understand more clearly now is -- and this is something I didn't understand fully at the time of 9/11 -- in a sense, at that point you think there were 3,000 people killed in the streets of New York in a single day. And I still think it's important just to hold that thought in our mind, because I always say about this, the important thing is, if these people could have killed 30,000 or 300,000, they would have," said Blair. "And that really changed the calculus of risk all together. But what I understand less clearly at that time was how deep this ideological movement is. -- this is actually more like the phenomenon of revolutionary communism. It's the religious or cultural equivalent of it, and its roots are deep, its tentacles are long, and its narrative about Islam stretches far further than we think into even parts of mainstream opinion who abhor the extremism, but sort of buy some of the rhetoric that goes with it."
Topics: 2010 elections, Arizona, David Plouffe, Immigration, John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Roundup, Sunday Shows, Todd McCracken, Tony Blair
2012 elections
President's Right Hand Man: Obama 'Not Concerned With His Reelection'
David Plouffe
In a new chapter for the paperback edition of his look back at the 2008 campaign, Barack Obama's campaign manager David Plouffe argues the president isn't looking toward 2012.
"I can tell you that the president is not concerned with his reelection. He is focused on leading the country forward," Plouffe writes in the forthcoming paperback version of his 2009 book "The Audacity to Win."
If any political observers weren't already snickering at those two lines, Plouffe adds: "We have no reelection campaign in the wings. We'll build it when the time is appropriate."
PERMALINK | COMMENTS | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (1)Topics: 2008 campaign, 2012 elections, Barack Obama, David Plouffe, Pres '12
PA-SEN
Plouffe Sends Email Calling Specter Key Obama Ally
Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA) and David Plouffe
The mastermind of the 2008 Obama campaign David Plouffe today is making a last-minute push for Sen. Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania, asking the most loyal of President Obama's supporters to help the struggling senator prevail in tomorrow's primary election.
"President Obama is committed to seeing Senator Specter re-elected. Whenever he has needed a crucial vote for a top priority, Arlen Specter has been there for our President and this movement," Plouffe wrote in an email that will be sent today by the Democratic National Committee's Organizing for America and obtained by TPMDC.
Plouffe was the campaign manager for Obama and has been a special adviser to the president ever since. The White House had him take on a more visible role this winter following the loss of Sen. Ted Kennedy's seat in Massachusetts.
PERMALINK | COMMENTS | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (0)Topics: Arlen Specter, DNC, David Plouffe, Organizing for America, PA-SEN
Roundup
TPMDC Sunday Roundup
Dem Rep. Larson: 'We Have The Votes'
Appearing on This Week, Rep. John Larson (D-CT) said that House Democrats now have the 216 votes needed to pass health care reform: "We have the votes. We are going to make history today. Not since President Roosevelt passed Social Security, Lyndon Johnson passed Medicare, and today, Barack Obama will pass health care reform, demonstrating whose side we're on."
Steele: Racist And Anti-Gay Demonstrators 'Got Stupid'
Appearing on Meet The Press, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele distanced the party from the racist and anti-gay language that demonstrators hurled against Rep. John Lewis (D-MA) and Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA). "What you had out there yesterday were a handful of people who just got stupid and, and said very ignorant things," said Steele. "And neither party, I believe, are associated--or should be associated with that."
Topics: Chris Van Hollen, David Plouffe, Health Care, John Cornyn, John Larson, Michael Steele, Mike Pence, Racism, Roundup, Steny Hoyer, Sunday Shows
Sunday Shows
The Sunday Show Line-Ups
Here are the line-ups for the Sunday talk shows this weekend:
• ABC, This Week: Former Bush White House Adviser Karl Rove, former Obama campaign manager David Plouffe, former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD), former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-MS).
• CBS, Face The Nation: House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC), DCCC Chair Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL).
• CNN, State Of The Union: House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence (R-IN), Rep. John Larson (D-CT), Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA).
• Fox News Sunday: Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), NRSC Chairman John Cornyn (R-TX).
• NBC, Meet The Press: House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH), House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD), DNC Chairman Tim Kaine, RNC Chairman Michael Steele.
PERMALINK | COMMENTS | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (0)Topics: Chris Van Hollen, David Plouffe, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, Dianne Feinstein, Dick Durbin, James Clyburn, John Boehner, John Cornyn, John Larson, Karl Rove, Michael Steele, Mike Pence, Mitch McConnell, Orrin Hatch, Paul Ryan, Steny Hoyer, Sunday Shows, Tim Kaine, Tom Daschle, Trent Lott
2010 elections
Plouffe's Return Gives Dem Supporters Hope For 2010
David Plouffe
David Plouffe's official return to the Obama inner circle of advisors is as much to reassure nervous Democrats as it is to do the job he's been assigned to do.
Plouffe, who penned an op-ed in this weekend's Washington Post saying the party needs to emerge victorious and pass health care, has been regarded by Obama loyalists and supporters as a smart political outsider who helped the candidate make smart choices during the long presidential campaign. He will help oversee the White House effort to retain as many Congressional seats and governorships as possible for the Democratic party this fall.
The White House selectively leaked details of Plouffe's new "expanded" role to news outlets this weekend as Democrats are questioning Obama's decision-making. Congressional Democrats have called for Obama to take a stronger leadership role in the health care fight, political operatives say he allowed Republicans to win the messaging war over the bill and progressives say they haven't seen Obama demonstrate much if any of the change they voted for.
PERMALINK | COMMENTS | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (4)Topics: 2010 elections, Barack Obama, DNC, David Plouffe, Health Care, Organizing for America, White House
Roundup
TPMDC Saturday Roundup
Obama Slams Citizens United Ruling
In this weekend's YouTube address, President Obama excoriated the Supreme Court's decision in the Citizen's United case, which overturned a century of previous law to allow corporations to directly spend money to campaign in elections:
"We don't need to give any more voice to the powerful interests that already drown out the voices of everyday Americans," said Obama. "And we don't intend to. When this ruling came down, I instructed my administration to get to work immediately with Members of Congress willing to fight for the American people to develop a forceful, bipartisan response to this decision. We have begun that work, and it will be a priority for us until we repair the damage that has been done."
Boehner Hails 'Political Rebellion' Against Democrats
In this weekend's Republican YouTube, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) celebrated the victory of Sen.-elect Scott Brown (R-MA), as part of a "political rebellion" against the Democrats' agenda:
"For months now, a political rebellion has been brewing - one born from the American people's opposition to greater government control over our economy and their lives," Boehner said. "That rebellion propelled Republican Scott Brown to victory in this week's Massachusetts special election. Scott's win in the bluest of blue states gives us new hope that common sense will prevail. That maybe now, the hard work and entrepreneurship of the American people will no longer be stifled by Washington Democrats' costly, job-killing agenda, an agenda Republicans have stood on principle and fought tooth and nail against."
PERMALINK | COMMENTS | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (0)Topics: 2010 elections, AZ-SEN, Barack Obama, David Plouffe, Evan Bayh, IN-SEN, Iraq, J.D. Hayworth, Joe Biden, John Boehner, John McCain, MA-SEN, Martha Coakley, Mike Pence, Roundup, Scott Brown, Senate '10
2008 campaign
Battle Of The Books As Obama Hand Plouffe Challenges Fans To Outsell Former Rival Sarah Palin
Former Obama campaign manager David Plouffe is challenging his fans and political readers to a literary duel with "our old friend Sarah Palin."
In a new Web video, Plouffe announces a one-day-only attempt for his book on the 2008 campaign to out-sell Palin's "Going Rogue," which, he notes, has sold over a million copies.
"It's selling about like a distortions and mistruths would at a tea party rally," Plouffe says in campaign-style Web video you can watch after the jump.
"We thought it might be fun, a fun little exercise, on one day to see if we can use some of our old organizing techniques and spread the world to see if we might be able to beat her for just one day," Plouffe said. The challenge is for Tuesday at noon.
PERMALINK | COMMENTS | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (0)Topics: 2008 campaign, Audacity to Win, Barack Obama, David Plouffe, Going Rogue, Sarah Palin
2008 campaign
Top 10 Things You Didn't Know Before Reading Plouffe's 'Audacity To Win'
David Plouffe
TPMDC is thankful today for political books that aren't boring or retread, and David Plouffe's "The Audacity to Win" fits into that category.
Plouffe ran the Obama campaign in 2008 and still does work for the DNC's campaign arm Organizing for America. He dishes in his book on some of the campaign's best-kept secrets.
We've reported on a few since the book came out - the Obama camp leaked the John Edwards haircut, they pushed for an early state campaign pledge to "box in" Hillary Clinton and Edwards offered to endorse for a spot on the ticket.
But there's so much more.
I covered the entire long campaign, and it was fascinating to read a candid book and peek under the hood at what had been a famously tight-lipped shop.
There are plenty of examples of Plouffe being cheap, and a few mentions of Plouffe and Robert Gibbs in their boxers.
After the jump, TPMDC's Top 10 things that Plouffe reveals in "Audacity to Win."
PERMALINK | COMMENTS | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (0)Topics: 2008 campaign, Barack Obama, David Axelrod, David Plouffe, White House
Organizing for America
Like An '08 Flashback: OFA Targets Sarah Palin As 'Dangerous'
Fmr. Gov. Sarah Palin, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ)
Organizing for America, the DNC's campaign arm set up to support President Obama's agenda, has a familiar target today: Sarah Palin.
Mitch Stewart, OFA's director, told supporters in an email just now they need help to raise "$500,000 in the next week to push back against Sarah Palin and her special interest allies."
His argument is that Palin's "lies" about health care are "widely covered by the media, then constantly echoed by right-wing attack groups and others who are trying to defeat reform." He uses her death panels meme as an example.
In his book "The Audacity to Win," Obama campaign manager David Plouffe said he was shocked that Palin was such a good fundraising driver for the team.
He writes that he looked at the online fundraising numbers a few hours after Palin made her big debut at the Republican National Convention going after Obama as his only experience being a community organizer.
"I couldn't believe what I saw," Plouffe wrote.
More from the book:
"We had taken in millions of dollars in the three hours since Palin had started speaking. We hadn't even asked for most of it; we had sent out just a single unplanned fund-raising email highlighting her attacks on community organizers, but it was just starting to hit people's in-boxes as I checked the numbers. So the big response from the last three hours meant people were merely venting via contribution. Her speech might have ginned up their base, but apparently it had sent ours into orbit."
He said he thought, "I hope she keeps this up. Sarah Palin has now become our best fund-raiser."
Sounds like that hasn't changed much.
Stewart's email from today after the jump.
PERMALINK | COMMENTS | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (3)Topics: 2008 campaign, Barack Obama, David Plouffe, Death Panels, Health Care, Organizing for America, Sarah Palin
Health Care
OFA Picks Ad Starring Children: 'I'll Die ... Because We Couldn't Afford Health Care'
David Plouffe
Last month Organizing for America solicited homemade health care ads from supporters, and today they released the winning video.
It stars several children with health care messages, including:
"Two years from now, I'll be diagnosed with Leukemia and I'll die, because we couldn't afford health care."and
"There are over 8 million uninsured children in America. ... We all deserve health care."
In an email asking for donations to put the ad on television, David Plouffe says the Organizing for America Health Reform Video Challenge shows "our supporters' creativity and passion is more than a match for the slick ads and partisan spin doctors on the other side."
PERMALINK | COMMENTS | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (0)Topics: Barack Obama, DNC, David Plouffe, Health Care, Organizing for America
2008 campaign
Trippi Disputes Plouffe's Claim About Edwards Offer To Trade Endorsement For Joint Ticket
Fmr. Howard Dean Campaign Manager Joe Trippi
Former John Edwards adviser Joe Trippi is pushing back against David Plouffe's claim that the Edwards camp tried to strike deals on the vice presidency during the 2008 Democratic primary.
As we reported last night, Plouffe charges in his new book "The Audacity to Win" that a "senior Edwards adviser" suggested Edwards would drop out and that he and Obama could team up as a joint ticket.
Trippi told the Washington Post's Greg Sargent he wasn't aware of the pitch. He also suggested Edwards, who was later mired by scandal due to an affair, was more interested in being attorney general than the No. 2 slot.
PERMALINK | COMMENTS | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (0)Topics: 2008 campaign, Barack Obama, David Plouffe, Joe Trippi, John Edwards
2008 campaign
Plouffe Shocker: Edwards Camp Offered To Endorse If Obama Would Pick Him As VP
Fmr. Sen. John Edwards (D-NC), Fmr. Barack Obama campaign manager David Plouffe
In the thick of the Democratic presidential primary, a top operative offered up John Edwards' withdrawal from the race and endorsement - on the condition the person he endorsed would offer him a spot on the ticket.
David Plouffe details the deal that "a senior Edwards" adviser" tried to ink before the South Carolina primary, spilling the beans in his book "The Audacity To Win."
Plouffe, then campaign manager for Barack Obama, was worried after the New Hampshire loss and polls tightening in South Carolina.
He said that the rival Edwards camp was in trouble and wanted to make a move with either Obama or Hillary Clinton while Edwards was "at a point of maximum leverage."
In this portion of the book, Plouffe hedges a bit, saying he's not sure Edwards was aware of the effort's specificity.
But he also has direct quotes, suggesting he documented the conversation.
Read the excerpt after the jump.
PERMALINK | COMMENTS | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (0)Topics: 2008 campaign, Barack Obama, David Plouffe, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, White House
2008 campaign
Campaign Tactics They Could Believe In: Obama '08 Pushed Early State Pledge
David Plouffe
Remember the mess that was Florida, Michigan and the earliest Iowa caucus in history?
Turns out some of the complications were orchestrated by the Obama campaign.
In his new book "The Audacity to Win" Obama campaign manager David Plouffe confesses they tried to "box in" Clinton after the Democratic National Committee's Rules and Bylaws Committee decided to strip Florida and Michigan of their delegates as punishment for holding primaries earlier than allowed. (In the end, it all worked out, but it caused complete chaos for months as the primary dragged on.)
Plouffe writes:
"Emboldened by the drift of the rules committee, we took it to the next level. I asked Steve Hildebrand to go on a secret diplomatic mission to speak with the four early-state party chairs, encouraging them to ask all the candidates to sign a pledge stating they would not campaign in any states (Florida and Michigan) that had violated the rules and were threatening the approved early states' primacy.PERMALINK | COMMENTS | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (2)Yes, this was in our self-interest. But it was also in theirs. If these two big states were penalized as severely as possible, and we all committed not to campaign in them, then the role of the early states was protected with no ambiguity."
Topics: 2008 campaign, Barack Obama, David Plouffe, Election 2008, Hillary Clinton, Iowa caucus, John Edwards, New Hampshire Primary, Pres '12
Barack Obama
Remember When? White House Staff (And President) Relive Campaign As OFA Plans Reunions
Organizing for America is putting together campaign "reunions" in honor of the one-year anniversary of Barack Obama's presidential election victory.
Wednesday marks the anniversary of President Barack Obama's historic election, and White House staffers, campaign volunteers and supporters are reliving the moment.
Most prominent in the coming week is Tuesday's HBO debut of the "By the People" documentary, a retelling of the long campaign.
Also happening this week are reunions put together by the volunteers still active in Organizing for America, the next generation of the Obama campaign.
On a sign-up sheet for local reunion events, OFA tells supporters:
"One year ago, President-Elect Obama told us that the election victory was only the beginning of the change we all sought -- and today, through Organizing for America, we're fighting just as hard to make health insurance reform a reality, this year. But while we seek to live up to the President's words, we're planning to gather together to reconnect, celebrate, and remember that moment, last year, when we won a historic victory.PERMALINK | COMMENTS | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (2)So this week, we're holding reunion events across the country for folks who were involved in the campaign. Can you attend one near you?"
Topics: 2008 campaign, Barack Obama, By the People, DNC, Dave Reichert, David Plouffe, HBO, Organizing for America
Roundup
TPMDC Sunday Roundup
Lieberman Pledges To Filibuster Public Option, Blames Its Supporters For Holding Up Reform
Appearing on Face The Nation, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) pledged to filibuster against the public option: "The government going into the health insurance business -- I think it's such a mistake that I would use the power I have as a single senator to stop a final vote." He also blamed public option-supporters for being the ones who are obstructing reform: "All of a sudden if you're not for this government health insurance company, you're against health care reform. I'd say to them, 'Don't stop us from getting something good and important done for the American people.'"
Boehner: NY-23 Election Part Of 'Political Rebellion Going On In America'
Appearing on State of the Union, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) addressed the situation in NY-23 by delcaring, "We're in the middle, I think, of a political rebellion going on in America," and said that the Republicans will work to earn the support of people coming into the political system. At the same time, he insisted that the GOP was not excluding moderates, in light of moderate GOP candidate Dede Scozzafava's withdrawal from the race: "We accept moderates in our party. We want moderates in our party. We cover a wide range of Americans."
Topics: David Axelrod, David Plouffe, Fox News, Health Care, Joe Lieberman, John Boehner, NY-23, Public Option, Roundup, Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, Sunday Shows, Timothy Geithner, Valerie Jarrett
Roundup
TPMDC Morning Roundup
Obama Going Quiet In Health Care Public Debate
President Obama has decided to lower his public profile in the health care debate, the New York Times reports, moving away from public rallies and towards negotiation in Washington. "I think his time is better spent on this particular issue in conversation with members and in talking to his own advisers and instructing them on how to proceed," said senior adviser David Axelrod. "That's the phase that we're in."
Obama's Day Ahead
President Obama will meet at 12:40 p.m. ET with Sen. John Kerry (D-MA). At 1:50 p.m. ET, Obama will announce a package of initiatives to increase credit to small businesses. At 3 p.m. ET, he will attend a Cabinet-level earthquake tabletop exercise. He will depart from the White House at 3:25 p.m. ET, arriving at 4:35 p.m. ET in Newark, New Jersey. At 6:05 p.m. ET, he will deliver remarks at a rally for Gov. Jon Corzine, at Fairleigh Dickinson University. He will depart from New Jersey at 7:25 p.m. ET, arriving back at the White House at 8:35 p.m. ET.
Topics: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, David Plouffe, Joe Biden, Missile Defense, Pete Hoekstra, Roundup, Steve Schmidt
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