Updated Wed Oct 31, 2012 10:23am AEDT
ABC NEWS
President Barack Obama wins glowing praise from Republican New Jersey governor Chris Christie for his response to superstorm Sandy.
President Barack Obama has won glowing praise from a fierce foe for his handling of superstorm Sandy, which has killed at least 30 Americans and caused widespread destruction along the east coast.
Republican New Jersey governor Chris Christie has repeatedly attacked Mr Obama on the campaign trail, claiming the Democrat does not deserve a second term in the White House.
But just hours after the worst of the storm knocked out power for 2.4 million people in New Jersey, south of New York City, Mr Christie gave Mr Obama a glowing character reference.
He said he had asked the president to cut through bureaucratic "mumbo jumbo" and help New Jersey, and he "got on it".
The president has been all over this, he deserves great credit.
New Jersey governor Chris Christie
"The president has been all over this, he deserves great credit," Mr Christie said.
"He gave me his number at the White House, told me to call if I needed anything, and he absolutely means it.
"It's been very good working with the president, and his administration has been coordinating with us great - it's been wonderful."
The praise from Mr Christie, who is mentioned as a possible 2016 Republican presidential candidate should Mr Romney lose, represented the kind of publicity a campaign, for all the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on it, simply cannot buy.
It came just a week before the election, with polls showing the race as a dead heat.
"I don't give a damn about election day," the outspoken governor said.
"It doesn't matter a lick to me at the moment. I've got bigger fish to fry."
Sandy made landfall in New Jersey yesterday morning (AEDT), leaving behind a trail of flooded homes, toppled trees and downed power lines in the nation's most densely populated region.
At least 30 people were reportedly killed along the eastern seaboard.
Mr Obama again cancelled his campaign activities for Wednesday and will instead visit New Jersey to assess the damage and recovery efforts.
Asked on Fox News whether he would tour parts of his state with Mr Romney, Mr Christie replied: "I have no idea, nor am I the least bit concerned or interested," he said.
"I've got a job to do here in New Jersey that's much bigger than presidential politics, and I couldn't care less about any of that stuff.
"If you think right now I give a damn about presidential politics then you don't know me."
On Tuesday Mr Romney transformed what was intended originally to be a campaign stop into a storm relief event in Ohio, taking donations of food and supplies to storm victims.
But he will return to full campaign mode with three rallies in the key swing state of Florida on Wednesday.
Mr Romney will stump for votes in two crucial districts in Florida - the cities of Jacksonville in the north and Tampa in the centre - as well as in Coral Gables, near the Democratic stronghold of Miami.
Mr Romney is seen as having a more narrow route than Mr Obama to the 270 electoral votes necessary to win the White House.
With some national polls showing Mr Romney slightly ahead, Mr Obama is clinging to slim leads in many of the eight or so swing states where voters will likely determine the outcome of the election.
A RealClearPolitics average of polls gives Mr Romney a 1.3 percentage point edge over the president.
A CNN survey released on Monday showed Mr Romney at 50 per cent support and Mr Obama at 49 per cent.
ABC/wires
Topics: us-elections, storm-event, weather, storm-disaster, united-states
First posted Wed Oct 31, 2012 9:19am AEDT
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