Looks like this week isn’t all Republicans all the time…
With President Barack Obama’s Midwest bus tour in the rearview mirror and a major jobs speech on the horizon, the administration is dispatching Obama campaign advisers David Axelrod and Robert Gibbs to headline this Sunday’s television talk shows.
Axelrod, the Chicago consultant who has been the president’s top political strategist, appears on ABC’s “This Week” and on CNN’s “State of the Union,” and Gibbs, the former Obama White House press secretary does NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, a Republican who opted against a presidential bid, is also on NBC.
And former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, who left his post as U.S. ambassador to China in the Obama administration to seek the Republican presidential nomination, follows Axelrod on ABC.
CNN also has Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, chairman of the Democratic Governors Association, and Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, the chairman of the Republican Governors Association who is often mentioned as a potential pick for vice president.
And Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, weighs in as well on the president’s increasingly rocky relationship with some black leaders.
On CBS, “Face the Nation” has Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), former Republican National Chairman Ed Gillespie and former Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe.