Ann Romney with her husband after the second presidential debate this week. (Photo by Shannon Stapleton-Pool/Getty …Reaching out to women voters in the wake of the "Binders full of Women" controversy, the Romney campaign held a last-minute teleconference town hall Wednesday night, during which Ann Romney and her son, Craig, took questions from supporters and talked about their reactions to the second presidential debate.
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Addressing listeners in both English and Spanish, Craig Romney said that he thought his father did "a really good job" during Tuesday night's debate, but added that "President Obama was a little better prepared this time around."
"I loved the contrast when it came to balancing the budget," he said from Oregon. "The difference is my dad could talk about what he's done, where President Obama could simply attack my dad's plan and couldn't talk about his own record. That's what seems to be his campaign's strategy -- not to talk about his achievements, but to denigrate my father."
Speaking from New York, Ann Romney focused on the positive as well.
"I was so, so proud of him," she said. "I thought that, again, his integrity came through, his clarity on the issues, his decisions about where he was going to take this country. I saw positive energy coming through him… he was fabulous. I was just thrilled."
Though the teleconference was open to the public, it was unpublicized except for a short blog post on MittRomney.com. The town hall was billed as a "Women for Mitt/Juntos Con Romney" event, and the few questions asked focused on women, Latinas, and the economy.
"Women are so important in this election," Ann Romney told supporters. "For me, I think it's so important that we let women now that their future is at stake right now, and their children's future is at stake. This is going to be an economic election."
After talking about how her family is coping on the campaign trail -- "What we do in the hours leading up to the debates, is we get together and we laugh a lot," she confided -- she reached out again to the Juntos Con Romney supporters.
"That's what we love about the culture you have in Miami," she said. "The Hispanic culture of families, we love it. We see it in your faces every time we see you, it gives us such joy, it makes us smile inside, too."
On Thursday, Ann Romney appeared on "The View," where she confirmed that she is pro-life and revealed that, if her husband loses the election, this campaign season would be the family's last.
"He will not run again -- nor will I do anything like that," she said.
"This was a very hard thing for me to decide to go forward again … for the family to have to go through this," she added. "The children have a hard time with it. I have a hard time with it. And yet I felt as though there was something my husband could offer this country that was uniquely his, that he could bring better economic hope and prosperity to women and men and all Americans."
