Tim Pawlenty and Bobby Jindal Go to Bat for Mitt Romney

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 Romney’s 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. They’ll 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 both Pawlenty and Jindal balance the ticket for Romney in many respects, they both have their flaws. During his bid for the Republican nomination, Pawlenty ripped into Romney on health care and he underwhelmed as a candidate, bowing out after a disappointing showing in the Iowa straw poll in August. Jindal was a backer of Texas Gov. Rick Perry before endorsing Romney.