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| Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney |
WASHINGTON—Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney said
U.S. President Barack Obama is running a campaign driven by “division
and attack and hatred” and called on him Wednesday to lift the tone of
political discourse.
In a close and increasingly acrimonious race, Romney went on
national television to say he thinks Obama is “running just to hang onto power,
and I think he would do anything in his power” to remain in office.
They were some of Romney’s harshest words yet against the
president. He was interviewed on “CBS This Morning” from the battleground state
of Ohio, one of less than 10 key states that will help decide the November
election. Obama campaign spokesman Jennifer Psaki said Romney’s
comments seemed “unhinged.”
