Ann Romney said Friday that she is “looking forward” to the presidential debates because she expects her husband, the GOP presidential nominee, to show a wider audience he’s a “serious guy.”
“I think it's going to be an opportunity for a lot of Americans to maybe tune in for the first time and see that this guy is a serious guy,” she told Neil Cavuto in an interview that aired in part on Fox News and will air in full on FOX Business Network’s "Cavuto" on Friday night.
“I do think that the president will have an advantage going, obviously, into these debates,” she acknowledged. “Everyone knows he's a good debater and he's the sitting president of the United States. So I definitely think Mitt goes in as an underdog.”
The first of three presidential debates will take place Oct. 3, hosted by the University of Denver. Mitt Romney spent three days this month warming up for his first face-off with President Obama, practicing with Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) who is role-playing Obama.
“I’m very confident, by the way, Neil, that we actually will win this thing,” Romney said, reffering to the “energy” she’s seen from the women who attend her “Women for Mitt” rallies on the campaign trail. Romney’s role in her husband’s campaign has largely been defined by her ability to activate female supporters. Polls so far indicate Mitt Romney cannot touch Obama’s lead among single, female voters, but he did recently show a lead among married women.
“It’s probably a generational thing,” Romney said of her husband’s apparent difficulty reaching single women. “I would think it’s probably not necessarily my husband, it's probably party lines.”
Romney also said she thinks her convention speech, a widely admired and high-profile moment for the prospective first lady to shine, might have been more “fun” but not better than the one her husband gave later in the week to officially accept the GOP nomination.
“I think my husband's was terrific,” she said, denying that either her speech or first lady Michelle Obama’s convention speech was better than the speeches by the presidential candidates. “I mean we obviously are talking about different things. And if you want to have more fun and it's more interesting, you might listen to the women speak because we have an opportunity to talk about family and personal things. And then if you have to listen to policy, which is obviously not as entertaining, you would certainly think that in both cases.”
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