US Election - live - Telegraph THE PRESIDENT: No, no, Governor Romney, he's a good debater. I'm just okay. But what I'm most concerned about is having a serious discussion about what we need to do to keep the country growing and restore security for hardworking Americans. 16.55 (11.55) From the people who brought you Will the Real Mitt Romney Please Stand Up? comes this riff on Obama's infamous "you didn't build that" comment. 16.40 (11.40) Paul Ryan has acknowledged it's been a difficult couple of weeks for the Republican ticket. Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney's running mate, has admitted "missteps" in the Republican presidential campaign, ahead of next week's first presidential debate. The Republican vice presidential candidate downplayed expectations of Mr Romney's debate performance, though fellow conservatives insisted the White House challenger would deliver a stellar presentation. With Mr Romney slipping in the polls ahead of the November 6 vote, the debates with Mr Obama - scheduled for October 3, 16 and 22 - are seen as the last chance to swing the electorate in his favour. A key Romney "misstep" was dismissing 47 per cent of Americans as government-dependent "victims" in a closed-door fund-raiser he held for wealthy donors that was caught on tape. Mr Ryan told "Fox News Sunday" that the comment was "an inarticulate way of describing" how Republicans are trying "to create prosperity and upward mobility, and reduce dependency by getting people off welfare back to work." "We've had some missteps, but at the end of the day, the choice is really clear and we're giving people a very clear choice," he added. 16.20 (11.20) All eyes our on Wednesday's debate. Obama is cloistered away in a hotel in Nevada but the pressure is really on Mitt Romney to pull something out of the bag and change the dynamic of the race. Philip Sherwell reports: When nervous Republican donors expressed fears about Mitt Romney's campaign to his advisers this summer, they were reassured that there were three major "impact" moments ahead that would change the White House race. The first two -- the choice of a vice-presidential candidate and the party convention in Tampa -- have, however, come and gone without delivering the bump in support that Mr Romney desperately needed. With President Barack Obama ahead in the polls, that leaves just the final play in that Romney game plan: the three presidential debates. When the two men walk on to a stage in Denver in front of a national television audience expected to exceed 60 million this week, the stakes could not be higher for the Republican side. In the words of Newt Gingrich, the former Republican presidential candidate, the 90-minute showdown on Wednesday will be "the most important single event in Mitt Romney's political career." 16.15 (11.15) Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the US Election 2012. US Election 2012 - September 28 as it happened US Election 2012 - September 27 as it happened US Election 2012 - September 26 as it happened US Election 2012 - September 25 as it happened US Election 2012 - Sep 24 as it happened US Election 2012 - Sep 21 as it happened US Election 2012 - September 20 as it happened US Election 2012 - September 19 as it happened US Election 2012 - September 18 as it happened US Election 2012 - September 17 - as it happened US election 2012: September 11 - as it happened Campaign trail: September 10 as it happened Democratic National Convention - September 04 as it happened Democratic National Convention - September 03 as it happened Republican National Convention - August 30 as it happened Republican National Convention - August 29 as it happened Republican National Convention: August 28 as it happened