CNN’s Gloria Borger exclusively interview with Ann and Mitt Romney
CNN chief political analyst Gloria Borger sat down for an exclusive interview with Ann and Mitt Romney this week in Utah. A highlight from her interview is below and additional portions will air today on The Lead with Jake Tapper at 4 p.m. and during The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, 5-7 p.m., ET. For more information, please visit www.CNNPressroom.com.
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Highlight from the Interview
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
BORGER: How do you get back to living a life without that single-minded intensity and focus that you have to have during a campaign every single minute of every single day?
M. ROMNEY: I — I’d say it’s almost the opposite. It — it’s easy to live life with family, with, uh, household chores you have, with the privacy you enjoy.
What’s difficult is going into a campaign and becoming extraordinarily focused, day after day, speaking to large groups of people, getting to know individuals one-on-one, learning their experiences, dealing with the media. That’s what’s difficult.
BORGER: Dealing with your mistakes.
M. ROMNEY: Dealing with your mistakes. That’s what’s difficult. That’s what’s challenging. When that’s over, it’s like, oh, back to real life.
Isn’t this great?
So it — it’s not hard going back, it’s hard going into the campaign. It’s a new experience and a thrill, but at the same time, it’s — it’s a — it’s a real challenge.
BORGER: Because don’t you spend a lot of your time kicking yourself?
Like after the 47 percent remark, which was a real problem, didn’t you kick yourself?
M. ROMNEY: Oh, yes. I was very upset. There were a number of times that I said things that — that didn’t come out right. And — and one of the interesting things about campaigns today, unlike probably 25 or 30 years ago, is that everything you say is being recorded. And, you know, now and then, things don’t come out exactly the way you want them to come out. They don’t sound the way you thought they sounded.
And now, with a good opposition campaign, they grab it, they blow it up, maybe they take it a bit out of context, maybe they don’t, but — but it — it — it, obviously, is, uh, paraded in a way that you hadn’t intended.
But that’s just the nature of politics today. You have to get over it and live with it.
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