As the curtain falls on the presidential campaign marathon, Mitt Romney's campaign plane and Air Force Two, carrying the vice president, Joe Biden, crossed paths at a Cleveland airport Tuesday morning.
It all happened after Biden made a previously-unannounced but long scheduled stop in Ohio, according to pool reports. The Vice President was en route from Delaware, where he voted Tuesday morning, to Chicago to join the president in an election night watch party.
Recent polling showed momentum for President Obama heading into Election Day, but his campaign said that trend had nothing to do with the incumbent’s choice to stay in his home state of Illinois today. GOP challenger Mitt Romney, by comparison, plans to make his final plea to voters with visits to Cleveland and Pittsburgh.
Senior Obama campaign adviser Robert Gibbs said on NBC’s “Today” show that the president chose to stay put and focus on a series of radio interviews to convince undecided voters to support him.
“We felt the president would have a better reach to sit here and do some satellite interviews into states and make sure that the folks that we have out getting out our vote in important states aren’t burdened by having to support him coming in to their state today,” he said. “So I think we feel like we’ve got a great opportunity for the president to speak with still undecided voters in those nine battleground states today.”
The president also made a surprise stop at a campaign field office in Chicago this morning to thank campaign workers and makle some last-minute calls to swing state voters, as well as to pay tribute to a hard-fought campaign. He congratulated Romney on “a hard-fought campaign.”
