(CNN) - Sen. John McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential nominee, had high praise on Sunday for House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, who was introduced Saturday as GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney's running mate.
"Excellent choice. A new generation of leadership in our party and in our nation," McCain said on Fox News. "A man who understands the most compelling challenges this nation faces obviously are jobs and the economy."
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(CNN) - Following the roll out of his vice presidential pick, Mitt Romney's fundraising numbers got a Republican enthusiasm-fueled boost.
On Sunday, Andrea Saul, Romney's campaign press secretary, wrote on Twitter that fund-raising had spiked for the candidate after revealing Paul Ryan as his running mate.
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New York (CNNMoney) - In picking Paul Ryan as his running mate, Mitt Romney has made clear what this year's presidential election will be about: Taxes, spending and the future of government programs in people's lives.
Ryan is the leading Republican thinker on budget issues in the House and his 2013 budget proposal - released in March and called "Path to Prosperity" - takes aim at many of President Obama's policies and proposals.
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(CNN) – A day after Mitt Romney named Rep. Paul Ryan his running mate, the Democratic attack line on the newly minted Republican ticket centered on Ryan's budget proposal and his conservative stance on social issues.
Speaking on CNN's "State of the Union," President Barack Obama's senior campaign adviser David Axelrod said the president felt Ryan, while 'genial,' would drive Medicare, the government-run health care program for seniors, into the ground.
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(CNN) - Sarah Palin, the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee, had little to say to her 2012 counterpart in a statement released nearly twelve hours after Mitt Romney made his running mate announcement.
"Congratulations to Mitt Romney on his choice of Congressman Paul Ryan as his running mate," Palin wrote in a statement, which mentioned Romney's name only four times and Ryan's name only three out of over 1,100 words. The statement was posted on her Facebook page.
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(CNN) – Mitt Romney and his running mate, Paul Ryan, will campaign together in Wisconsin on Sunday, but going forward the two members of the newly formed Republican ticket will campaign "on different tracks," a Romney campaign adviser told reporters Sunday.
"It's likely that they'll be campaigning on different tracks until we get to the convention," Romney senior adviser Kevin Madden said, adding that the campaign saw the potential for Ryan to made inroads for the Republican ticket in the Great Lakes states. Ryan is a seven-term Wisconsin congressman, who was re-elected in 2010 with over two-thirds of the vote.
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(CNN) - Mitt Romney will be joined by running mate Paul Ryan campaigning in Ryan's home state of Wisconsin in the state's largest suburban county, Waukesha, just outside of Milwaukee. President Obama is in Chicago on Sunday where he will attend five campaign events throughout the day. Included in these events is a fundraiser in Obama's home in Hyde Park as a part of a belated birthday party for the president.
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Charlotte, North Carolina (CNN) –- Paul Ryan's journey from congressman to vice presidential candidate was cloaked in secrecy worthy of a big-screen thriller.
In the culminating scene, Republican vice presidential pick-to-be Paul Ryan – policy wonk, statistics nerd, father of three – sneaked through the woods behind his Wisconsin home for a clandestine pickup from a top aide Friday afternoon.
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