With President Barack Obama focusing on two battleground states -- Ohio and Pennsylvania -- on Thursday and Friday, Republicans are countering with a pair of the leading possibilities to wind up as Mitt Romneys running mate.

Former Gov. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota and Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana will be taking a bus tour of the two states and looking to throw jabs at Obama. Theyll be attacking the president on the national debt in Ohio on Thursday morning before heading to a rally in Parma in the afternoon and one in Pittsburgh on Friday morning.

While he still remains a formal candidate in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, U.S. Rep. Ron Paul of Texas has also been focusing on his last months in Congress. Paul is not seeking re-election in November.

Paul is focusing on passing his bill to audit the Federal Reserve, which made it out of committee earlier in the session and is up for a vote in the full House later in July. The Campaign for Liberty, a group of Paul supporters, highlighted a new video from Congressman Paul on Tuesday in which he talks about the issue.

U.S. Rep. Allen West, R-Fla., came out swinging against President Barack Obama on Tuesday, ripping the president over immigration. West also hammered the Supreme Court for ruling against Arizonas immigration law last week.

A new poll of likely voters shows that its neck and neck in Florida as Barack Obama looks to keep the Sunshine State in his column while Mitt Romney looks to win the biggest swing state on the map.

The poll from We Ask America released on Tuesday finds Obama taking 46 percent and Romney right on his heels with 45 percent, while 9 percent remain undecided.

The poll of 1,127 likely voters in Florida was taken from July 1-2 and had a margin of error of +/- 2.9 percent.

This week, supporters of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney have been bashing President Barack Obama for broken promises. U.S. Rep. Connie Mack, the overwhelming favorite to win the Republican nomination to challenge Democrat incumbent U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, went to bat for Romney on Tuesday, hammering Obama on the economy and the national debt.

With President Barack Obama hitting the battleground states of Ohio and Pennsylvania, the team behind former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts, the presumptive Republican presidential candidate, sent out two senators from those states -- including one of the leading candidates to wind up as Romneys running mate -- to take aim at the president.

U.S. Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, who is listed by pundits in the first tier of possibilities for Romney to add to the ticket, joined U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., in bashing Obama.

With Gov. Rick Scott announcing over the weekend that Florida will only implement the required sections of the federal health-care law-- and opt out of the Medicaid expansion and creating insurance exchanges -- Democrats in the Sunshine State are firing back.

Incoming House Democratic Leader Perry Thurston of Plantation weighed in on Monday and tore into the governor.

Facing a competitive Republican primary with former Rep. Aaron Bean for a state Senate seat representing parts of the First Coast, Rep. Mike Weinstein, R-Jacksonville, unveiled the backing of one of the more prominent tea party leaders in Florida on Monday.

Weinstein announced that he had the backing of Billie Tucker of the First Coast Tea Party. Tucker pointed to Weinsteins record in Tallahassee and said that he worked closely with Gov. Rick Scott.

A poll released by Rasmussen Reports on Monday morning finds that despite the Supreme Court of the United States upholding most of it last week, a majority of Americans continue to wish to repeal the federal health-care law signed by President Barack Obama in 2010.

After the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday to uphold most of the federal health-care law, presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney called upon GOP leaders in battleground states to speak out against the decision and say their candidate would fight to repeal the law.

The Romney team turned to state Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam in Florida. Putnam was an early Romney supporter and, along with U.S. Sen. Mike Johanns, R-Neb., leads the candidates agriculture advisory team.