“This is a campaign which I think will come into focus as the debates occur,” Romney said, according to a transcript released by ABC of Romney’s sit-down with “Good Morning America’s” George Stephanopoulos. “The president got a bit of a bump after his convention. I got a bit of a bump after ours. It’s going to go back and forth.”
The debates, including the vice presidential debate, he said, could “well be a decisive point in the campaign,” and he added that while he wouldn’t try to predict the outcome, he thought they would be “revealing one way or another.”
Romney also suggested that Obama might be untruthful during the debates.
“But I think the challenge that I’ll have in the debate is that the president tends to, how shall I say it, to say things that aren’t true,” Romney said, adding, “I’ve looked at prior debates. And in that kind of case, it’s difficult to say, “Well, am I going to spend my time correcting things that aren’t quite accurate? Or am I going to spend my time talking about the things I want to talk about?”
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