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Romney: ‘I don’t see how a young American can vote for a Democrat’
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says he can’t understand why so many young people vote Democratic. During a speech on economic freedom at the University of Chicago on Monday, the candidate was asked to address crippling student loans and the high unemployment rate for younger Americans. “I joke and I…
Romney: ‘No question’ Obama wanted higher gas prices
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Sunday said that there was “no question” President Barack Obama had a plan to raise gas prices when he took office. “When he ran for office, he said he wanted to see gas prices go up,” the candidate told Fox News host Bret Baier.…
Michael Steele: Romney can’t clinch the nomination before the convention
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s campaign has taken to proclaiming that the math is on his side, and that even if he loses some primaries by narrow margins his count of delegates will continue growing. A Romney victory is not a sure thing, however. Even former Republican National Committee Chair…
Romney: Fox News is ‘pretty fair and balanced’
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Thursday pushed back against the idea that Fox News was supporting his candidacy. Earlier this week, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum had complained to Fox News host Brian Kilmeade that the conservative news network was in the tank for Romney. “He has Fox News…
‘Occupy Wall Street’ protesters target Romney fundraiser
Protesters affiliated with “Occupy Wall Street” converged on the luxury hotel Waldorf Astoria in Manhattan on Wednesday, where a fundraiser for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney was being held. The Associated Press estimated that about a hundred people participated in the demonstration against corporate spending in politics. Reverend Billy Taden of…
Romney’s son praises Obama: ‘He is great’
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s son, Matt, wandered off message in Hawaii on Monday and declared that President Barack Obama was “great.” Late last year, Matt Romney had taken his father’s campaign into birther territory by joking that the president might not be a U.S. citizen. Stumping for his dad…
Romney: ‘If I’m a weak frontrunner then what does that make Newt Gingrich?’
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has a response to rival Newt Gingrich’s claim that he’s a weak frontrunner: I know I am but what are you? On Sunday, Gingrich told Fox News host Chris Wallace that the former Massachusetts governor had one of the most anemic campaigns in the last…
Romney woos Southerners: I had some ‘cheesy grits’ at the Hilton, y’all
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Thursday appealed to Southern voters by proclaiming his love for grits. At an event in Pascagoula, Mississippi, the former Massachusetts governor declared that “strange things are happening to me” during his trip to Dixie. “I am learning to say y’all, and I like grits…
Ann Romney: ‘I don’t even consider myself wealthy’
The wife of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says that even though she is worth hundreds of millions of dollars, she doesn’t consider herself to be wealthy. In an interview on Monday, Ann Romney told Fox News host Neil Cavuto that her struggle with multiple sclerosis has changed her view…
Romney on student debt: Join the military
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Monday told a high school senior not to expect any help from the government for college tuition unless he joined the military. At a town hall-style campaign event in Mahoning Valley, Ohio, a student who was hoping to go to college next year asked…
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