The final presidential debate between President Obama and Mitt Romney wrapped up Monday night with plenty to say about both the president and the GOP nominee’s views about foreign policy issues. But with only 13 days remaining before Election Day, it’s really all up to voters in key battleground states to determine the winner.

CNN narrows them to nine critical states: Nevada, Colorado, Iowa, Wisconsin, Ohio, Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, and New Hampshire. Republican Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart of Florida is also Foreign Policy Adviser to Romney. He joins Zoraida Sambolin on “Early Start” from Miami to talk about the uncertainty of the race.

The latest polls show a virtually tied race in Florida, but Rep. Diaz-Balart says he feels “very confident that Mitt Romney will win Florida.” “And I think he’ll win with stronger numbers than people may suspect at this time,” he says.

Sambolin asks Diaz-Balart about critical demographics in Florida, starting with Latino voters. Recent polls show conflicting views of who the Latino community in Florida will vote. Rep. Diaz-Balart says “you’re starting to see a shift in the actual numbers of those who are likely to vote,” among Latinos in Florida.

Regarding women voters, Sambolin asks if Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock’s recent comments about rape being intended by God could hurt Romney’s chances with women. He recently shot a campaign ad for Mourdock. Diaz-Balart says the American voters are “smarter than that” and can separate Mitt Romney as a presidential candidate. “You can try to link controversial statements to the president or controversial statements to Mitt Romney, but the American people, frankly, they’re bigger and they’re smarter than a lot of times either politicians or members of the press believe that they are.”

President Obama and Mitt Romney faced-off for a final time last night, making their case one more time before undecided voters. President Obama was the more aggressive candidate to a more restrained Romney. A CNN/ORC poll of debate watchers determined Obama the winner, with 48% for Obama and 40% for Romney. In the same poll asking debate watchers who spent more time attacking his opponent, 68% said Obama and 21% said Romney. The Worldwide President & CEO of Burson-Marsteller Don Baer comes to “Early Start” to share his reaction. Baer is Former Clinton White House Communications Director. Baer prepared President Bill Clinton for his re-election debates in 1996.

Baer thinks the debate showed Obama’s capability as commander-in-chief. “I think President Obama showed that he’s learned how to run foreign policy well,” Baer says. “He was steady and strong. He was also sort of aggressive and assertive with regard to Governor Romney.”

Baer remarks on the tone of the campaign thus far, calling it “long and confusing” and “very rancorous”. “You boil it all down it’s pretty simple,” Baer says. “The American people want two things, they want peace and they prosperity. And actually, if you listen to the debate last night, both sides were trying to talk about,” how we get more of both.

Baer thinks Romney “came across as someone who was credible as commander-in-chief.” Baer thinks Obama may have looked overly aggressive, though he says he needed to do that. “I think he needed to be strong in terms of the defense of his foreign policy over the last several years,” Baer says. “But I think overall, the country wants to see that the president is assertive with regard to American security, and I think they saw that in him last night.” Still, Baer says the match was pretty even, and Election Day will really determine the winner. “I think it was kind of toe to toe,” Baer says.

President Obama and Mitt Romney faced each other for a final time last night in debate capacity, battling over foreign policy issues. Pundits agree that both candidates gave strong performances, but that the incumbent president had the upper hand. Debate Coach Brett O’Donnell prepared Mitt Romney for his primary debates and has also worked with President George W. Bush and Senator John McCain. He comes to “Early Start” to score the candidates on last night’s debate.

In a CNN/ORC poll taken after the debate, 48% of debate watchers said Obama won the debate to 40% for Romney. O’Donnell agrees with the assessment. He thinks Obama was more aggressive than Romney in Boca Raton. "The aggressor tends to be viewed as the winner and so, given the fact that he was on the attack more than Governor Romney was, people are gonna perceive him as doing better in the debate,” O'Donnell says.

Romney spent much of last night’s debate agreeing with President Obama’s foreign policy actions and refrained from arguing over Libya and Osama bin Laden. “I think it’s a strategy,” O’Donnell says. “I think last night you saw him basically hug the president to death. The problem was it frustrated the president. Really, in an election that’s centered on the economy, this was a strategy that the governor could prosecute and get away with really.” O’Donnell doesn't see a risk in this.

O’Donnell believes Romney needed only to establish himself as a capable leader. “All Governor Romney had to do was pass the commander-in-chief test, which he did effectively. He was able to demonstrate that he’d be a calm hand as commander-in-chief and if he gets over that bar, the big issue is the economy, which if you go back and look at the debate, I thought he did a pretty good job at.”

President Obama and Mitt Romney battled in Boca over foreign policy last night in their final presidential debate. President Obama was on the attack for much of the debate, leaving the GOP rival on the defense.

A CNN/ORC poll of debate watchers determined Obama as the winner as a result, with 48% choosing Obama to 40% choosing Romney. This morning on "Early Start," CNN contributors Ana Navarro Roland Martin weigh in on who they think won the debate.

Romney often stated that he agreed with the president on different policies and failed to distinguish himself on certain issues last night. “Romney was sitting there sweating, clearly got outclassed,” Martin says. “He couldn’t even lay a hand on the president when it came to Libya. No doubt, you saw who clearly was comfortable and strong being commander-in chief.”

Navarro agrees with Martin regarding Benghazi. “I think Mitt Romney was a little off when he came out of the gate,” Navarro says. “He was trying to put everything out on the table at once, and in the meantime, he missed the point on Benghazi, on really landing the solid blow. I think he recovered as the debate went on. He gave some very solid answers along the debate, but President Obama was prepared and had some very solid rebuttals.”

The conversation got heated though when Navarro told Martin she didn't want to be interrupted:

NAVARRO: Roland, hold up. I know President Obama likes to interrupt, but I'm not in the mood to be interrupted this morning.

MARTIN: Ana, you -

SAMBOLIN: Here you guys, I'll interrupt.

MARTIN: You're a Republican downplaying commander-in-chief role when GOP has always been a winner in that area.

NAVARRO: Well, I'm not downplaying it. But you're asking why do we want somebody else? Well, because he offers different policies on other issues, Roland. You know. And I think he got under your skin -

MARTIN: Actually, he didn't.

NAVARRO: - and President Obama's skin, and that they did agree a lot last night.

SAMBOLIN: Ana and Roland, I'm going to interrupt. I really appreciate both of you this morning.

President Obama and Mitt Romney faced-off for a final time last night in the presidential debate, making their cases one more time before undecided voters.

A CNN/ORC poll of debate watchers determined Obama the winner, with 48% for Obama and 40% for Romney. Former Republican Senator Norm Coleman of Minnesota reacts to the debate on “Early Start” this morning. Coleman is also a key foreign policy adviser for the Romney campaign. He considers Romney the winner of the debate.

"In the final analysis, this is an election,” Senator Coleman says, “people are looking for who can be the commander-in-chief.” Governor Romney “tied having a strong economy as being essential to having a strong military, a strong foreign policy,” Coleman says. “And clearly on that point, he clearly won the debate.”

John Berman points out that Romney stated he agreed with the president on several foreign policy issues. Senator Coleman views this as Romney working across the aisle, not failing to distinguish himself from the president. “He showed, in the course of the debates, is here’s somebody who’s focused on getting things done, he’ll work with folks to get things done. And I think folks in America are crying for that” Coleman says. “There are those things where we can agree, we can agree. Everything doesn’t have to be battle.”

Coleman believes Romney still maintains a stronghold on the economy. “The question is how do you make America more secure. You make it more secure by rebuilding this economy,” Coleman says. “Governor Romney laid out his five points, how he’s going to do it.”