The Obama campaign senior adviser on the first presidential debate.

ABC News ‘This Week’ Transcript:

STEPHANOPOULOS: Hello again. Just 30 days now until the final vote, and after the most intense week yet of this campaign, Mitt Romney has momentum. National polls show him gaining ground, his crowds have picked up, and last night in Florida, Romney opened up, telling about his last visit with an old friend paralyzed in a tragic accident.

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ROMNEY: They pushed his wheelchair forward, and he came up, and I reached over, and put my arm on his shoulder, and I whispered into his ear. And I said, “Billy, I love you and God bless you.” I got a call from a friend that he’d died the next day after that visit. It’s rare that you get the chance to tell someone how much you love them when you still can.

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STEPHANOPOULOS: Can Romney keep gaining ground, or will President Obama maintain his advantage in those battleground states that matter most? We’ll look at the race from all angles this morning, and we’ll begin with the campaigns. Ed Gillespie for Mitt Romney, Robert Gibbs for Barack Obama, and Robert, let me begin with you. How much difference did Governor Romney make Wednesday night?

GIBBS: Well, look, George, Governor Romney had a masterful theatrical performance just this past week, but the underpinnings and foundations of that performance were fundamentally dishonest. Look, he walked away from the central tenet of his economic theory by saying he had no idea what the president was talking about. Ten minutes after the debate, even his own staff is walking back his answers on health care and preexisting conditions.

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