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Candidates prep for debates while No. 2s campaign
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney arrives at his campaign headquarters in Boston, to prepare for the presidential debates. If Republican Mitt Romney doesn't perform well at the presidential debate on Wednesday, it's not for lack of trying. On one out of every four days this September, the Republican presidential nominee held preparation sessions for the first of his three debates with Democratic President Barack Obama. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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President Barack Obama prepares to board Air Force One as he leaves Andrews Air Force Base, Sunday, Sept., 30, 2012. Obama is traveling to Las Vegas for a campaign rally then will be staying in Nevada to prepare for the first presidential debate with Republican rival, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, on Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais))
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Posted 10/2/12
WASHINGTON — The presidential candidates are leaving the heavy lifting of campaigning to their running mates Tuesday as they spend one more day preparing for their first debate, scheduled for Wednesday night.
President Barack Obama is in Henderson, Nev., for a strategy run-through ahead of the debate in Denver. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is set to spend most of Tuesday in debate prep at a Denver hotel.
“In my view it’s not so much winning and losing or even the people themselves, the president and myself — it’s about something bigger than that,” Romney told a cheering crowd of thousands at a rally Monday night.
He also told supporters he would get America working again. “Jobs is job one under my administration,” Romney said, debuting a new line midway through his standard campaign speech.
Both candidates reached out to Hispanic voters, a growing constituency in Colorado.
The White House said Monday that Obama will designate the home of labor leader Cesar Chavez as a national monument during a campaign swing through California next week.
Romney brought up immigration in an interview published Tuesday by The Denver Post, saying he would honor temporary work permits for young illegal immigrants who were allowed to stay in the U.S. because of an executive order signed this summer by Obama.
In Iowa on Tuesday, Romney’s running mate, Paul Ryan, is set to visit three towns during a bus tour. The Wisconsin congressman will be in Clinton, Muscatine and Burlington.
Vice President Joe Biden has two campaign events scheduled in another swing state, North Carolina. He’ll be in Charlotte and Asheville.
