Ann Romney Tells Women Her Husband ‘Will Not Let Us Down’
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(TAMPA, Fla.) — Ann Romney, the wife of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, told Americans Tuesday night that they could trust her husband and in a blunt appeal to women said, “This man will not let us down.”"Some…
Ann Romney’s Biggest Speech Will Be ‘Heartfelt’
Scott Olson/Getty Images(TAMPA) – Bringing her trademark welsh cakes to the back of the plane to hand out, Ann Romney took a moment to talk about the biggest speech of her life that she’ll deliver today at the Republican National Convention…
Romney Guards Convention Speech From Prying Media
ABC News(BOSTON) – Mitt Romney was in good spirits Monday as he left a second day of convention-speech preparation, sharing with the media only what’s likely to be the closing line of his much-anticipated convention speech.“Thank you,…
Mitt and Ann Romney Prep for Convention Speeches
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(BOSTON) — Practice makes perfect, so for Mitt and Ann Romney that meant spending a Sunday evening inside a local New Hampshire prep school practicing their convention speeches.The Romneys spent about two hours Sunday night…
Ann Romney Gets Secret Service Protection
Scott Olson/Getty Images(BOSTON) – Ann Romney has been given her own Secret Service detail, ABC News has learned.Ann Romney, the wife of presidential candidate Mitt Romney, was first assigned a detail late Friday afternoon, a campaign aide confir…
RNC Forecast: Convention With a Chance of Chaos
Comstock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — Mitt Romney is likely to officially become the GOP’s presidential nominee on the first day of the Republican National Convention next week.And although it looks like Tampa could get drenched on Monday as the delegates…
Ann Romney’s Horse Rafalca Out of Olympics
ABC News(WASHINGTON) — Rafalca, the horse co-owned by Ann Romney and her dressage trainer Jan Ebeling, was eliminated from the Olympic dressage competition on Tuesday.Rafalca earned a score of 69.317, which bumped her out of the top 19. Only the…
Ann Romney Visits Her Ancestral Roots
Scott Olson/Getty Images(LLANGYNWYD, Wales) — Ann Romney will find herself in the middle of an old Welsh love story during her weekend getaway to her ancestral home. After leaving the London Olympics, she is visiting the 850-year-old Old House I…
Ann Romney Heads to Wales this Weekend
JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Rafalca, the dressage horse that took an elegant turn in the Olympics on Thursday, gets a break this weekend and Ann Romney, a part owner of Rafalca, is off to visit her roots in Wales.She’ll spend Satur…
Obama, Romney Family Trees Hold Slaves, British Country Folk
Joe Raedle/Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — The United States’ first African-American president is likely a descendent of the first documented enslaved African in colonial America, researchers at Ancestry.com said Monday.”I don’t even kno…
How Ann Romney’s Horse Could Decide VP Announcement Date
ABC News(WARSAW) — The success of Ann Romney’s dressage horse Rafalca in the London Olympics could determine when Mitt Romney announces his running mate. As Mitt Romney prepares to head back to the states tomorrow evening after several days abroad, th…
Olympics Are Seen Broadly Favorably, Even Without Rafalca Fever
ABC News(NEW YORK) — Americans are favorably anticipating the Olympics in general, and the swimming competition in particular, according to the findings of the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll. But Rafalca fever hasn’t exactly gripped …
Robert Duvall Hosts Ann Romney Fundraiser
File. (ABC/ Ida Mae Astute)(WASHINGTON) — From Sarah Jessica Parker to George Clooney, it’s Barack Obama who usually fundraises with celebrities, but the president no longer has the star market cornered. Actor Robert Duvall and his wife, Luciana…
Ann Romney’s MS Revelation: The Trauma of Diagnosis
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Ann Romney told Robin Roberts Thursday on Good Morning America that the multiple sclerosis diagnosis she received 14 years ago was her “darkest hour” that left her “humbled” and “crushed” to dust.Romney was diagnosed with multipl…
Ann Romney Opens Up About Illness; Calls MS Diagnosis ‘My Darkest Hour’
Ida Mae Astute/ABC(NEW YORK) — In an unflinching and emotional interview, Ann Romney opened up about the despair she felt when she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis 14 years ago, confessing to ABC’s Robin Roberts that she found herself in a “dark …
DNC Regrets Offending Ann Romney, No More Horse Ads
ABC News(WASHINGTON) — It seemed like a good idea at the time, but now the Democratic National Committee is offering an apology of sorts to Ann Romney.At issue is a DNC video featuring footage of Ann Romney’s dancing show horse. The DNC used the…
Pawlenty to Obama: Leave Ann Romney’s Therapy Horse Alone
Scott Olson/Getty Images(MINNEAPOLIS) — Tim Pawlenty thinks the Obama campaign’s mocking ads featuring the Romneys’ expensive sport-horse is a bridge too far.Though Pawlenty said in an interview with ABC News’s Jon Karl that he hadn&…
Dems Hit Romney for ‘Dancing Horse’ Rafalca
ABC News(WASHINGTON) — For the second time in the 2012 campaign, Democrats are attacking presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney with mocking references to one of his family pets.A new web video by the Democratic National Committee slams Romney for &ldquo…
Mitt Romney Still Undecided on VP Pick, Wife Says
Ida Mae Astute/ABC(NEW YORK) — Mitt Romney has yet to pick a running a mate, despite reports that he could announce his choice for vice president as early as this week, his wife, Ann Romney, told ABC News on Wednesday.”We’re not quite there yet,” Ann …
Ann Romney Endorses Mia Love in Utah Congressional Race
JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — In her first solo endorsement of the 2012 cycle, Ann Romney has backed Utah Congressional candidate Mia Love.The Romneys’ son Josh has already been vocal of his support for Love and Jason Chaffetz, a Uta…