Romney is all set for the big battle

         

           After sweeping five Republican primaries to effectively clinch the valuable Republican nomination, Mr. Mitt Romney prepared to challenge US President Barack Obama in the general election, which will be held on November. 

            “A better America starts tonight,” the former governor of Massachusetts told to the cheering victory rally in New Hampshire on Tuesday after building quite a big lead in delegates with victories in Connecticut, Delaware, New York, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island.

            “The last few years have been the best that Barack Obama can do, but it’s surely not the best America can do,” he said. “Tonight is the beginning of the end of the disappointments of the Obama years and it’s the start of a new and better chapter that we will write together.”

              Far ahead of the field in the battle for delegates Romney became the presumptive nominee April 10 after his closest rival former senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, suspended his campaign.

              Santorum has yet to endorse Romney and also declined to do so despite repeated prodding on a TV show Tuesday saying he hoped to meet with Romney “in the coming next week or two”.

             With the nominating fight virtually over, Romney’s campaign has already been working to build up its general election organization, and engaged in a “rapid build-out”, a Romney adviser said. Romney plans a series of fund raising events on Wednesday and Thursday in New York and New Jersey to build up his war chest for the vital November election.