Ryan: 'We're going to win this race' Republican vice presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan on Sunday brushed aside recent polls showing President Obama leading Mitt Romney, saying, "We're going to win this race." Ryan said on "Fox News Sunday" that the presidential debates starting Wednesday will show Romney as "a clear choice we're offering." "Stagnation vs. growth ... that's the classic choice being offered," said Ryan, R-Wis. That's what we hope people get out of debate. Still, Ryan acknowledged, "I don't think one event is going to make or break a campaign." With five weeks before Election Day, Romney and Ryan are facing sharp criticism about why they are not leading in polls amid high unemployment and sluggish Gross Domestic Product, numbers that have historically sunk presidents seeking re-election. Ryan argued that the Obama campaign has done a good job of "distracting people" and suggested that the so-called "mainstream media" has helped the president's re-election effort. He also confirmed that Romney is set this week to deliver a major foreign speech and disagreed with the assertion that the debate message of a "clear choice" is the departure from the earlier campaign message that the race is a referendum on Obama's past four years.