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Paul Ryan in Rosemont: How he can beat Biden at Thursday debate

By Lynn Sweet

(video by Lynn Sweet)

ROSEMONT, Ill.–GOP Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan is a headlining a Sunday fund-raising reception and brunch in this Chicago suburb–days before his Thursday debate with Vice President Joe Biden in Danville, Ky. I asked the Romney Illinois chairman, Dan Rutherford, the Illinois Romney chairman what Ryan has to do beat Biden. Click on the video for Rutherford’s advice.

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