By: Las Vegas Now Staff
Primetime speeches at the Democratic Convention Wednesday night will feature former President Bill Clinton and Vice Presidential pick, Delaware Senator Joe Biden.
In previous convention years, the opposing party kept a low profile, but Republicans have not been staying out of the spotlight this year.
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LasVegasOne's Jeff Gillan sat down with a top McCain surrogate, who came to battleground Nevada today. That would be Mitt Romney, who has been part of a so-called Republican truth squad.
Traditionally, one party stays quiet during the other's convention. Not this year. Republicans have been in Denver making their case against Barack Obama. Mitt Romney spent part of this week throwing jabs at Obama from the very site of the convention.
But it could also be an audition. Romney, by some accounts, is on John McCain's short list to be VP.
Gillan pressed Romney on whether or not he's joining the ticket, but he wouldn't bite, “You know, I just don't have anything for you on the VP front — I'm not campaigning for that. What I'm doing is campaigning for John McCain, want to make sure that he's elected and that Barack Obama is able to go back to the Senate and get the experience that I think he needs.”
Gillan and Romney talked further about the economy, energy and Hillary Clinton.
Recently Democrats have been trying to paint McCain as out of touch. Democrats say if he chooses multimillionaire Mitt Romney, it would be, “The richest Republican ticket ever.”
Romney says his wealth aside, he has the economic expertise to help McCain put the economy back on track and put middle class Americans back to work.
Besides Romney, the two other names are being mentioned for McCain's VP — Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty and former Democrat turned Independent Joe Lieberman.
The McCain camp says the announcement will be made Friday at a rally in Dayton, Ohio.
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