PRESS RELEASE from DNC
For
Immediate
Release
January
31,
2012
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DNC
Press
DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s
Statement on Florida Republican Primary Results
Tampa, Florida – Democratic
National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz released the
following statement tonight on the results of the Florida Republican
primary:
“Mitt
Romney’s victory tonight in the Florida GOP primary comes as no
surprise – Romney and his Super PAC outspent his nearest opponent by
running 13,000 ads to Newt Gingrich's 200, carpet- bombing the airwaves
with negative ads. In fact, Romney’s campaign has already
spent more
on negative ads than John McCain did during his entire presidential
run.
“Tonight,
Romney was successful in buying his way to victory – but with every
passing Republican contest, he becomes weaker with key general election
swing and independent voters should he make it that far. That’s
because Mitt Romney has made it clear he will say anything, take any
position on any given day and before any given audience and will
distort any fact about his or his opponents' record to win.
"But
voters are paying more attention than Mitt Romney gives them credit
for. They know he has declared support for both an extreme Tea
Party
agenda that would gut Social Security and Medicare and a budget plan
that would end Medicare as we know it and shifts costs onto the backs
of America’s seniors. They also know Romney has doubled down on
his
incredibly out-of-touch positions of letting foreclosures hit the
bottom and expanding tax breaks to the wealthiest few at the expense of
the middle class. And despite his double-speak in Florida, Mitt
Romney
has done nothing to dissuade voters from the notion that he is the most
anti-immigrant significant major party candidate for president in
generations.
"The
reason Mitt Romney's negatives have soared with independent voters
nationally and in key states, even as he has won one contest on his
home field and bought his way to victory in another, is because the
more voters learn about his extreme and out of touch positions the less
they like him and the less they trust him to lead."
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PRESS
RELEASE from Florida Democratic Party
February 1, 2012
Statement
from Florida Democratic Party Chairman Rod Smith on Florida's
Republican Primary
Tallahassee, FL --
Florida Democratic Party
Chairman Rod Smith issued the following statement tonight in response
to the results in tonight’s GOP presidential primary election:
"Mitt Romney won in Florida tonight for a very simple reason -- he ran
the most negative primary contest ever. Romney and his allies outspent
Newt Gingrich by nearly 5-to-1, almost all of it on negative
advertising. He may have won this contest, but he lost the opportunity
to win the hearts and minds of the people of Florida. Floridians, like
all Americans, are looking for positive ideas that will rebuild an
economy that works for the middle class. But they won’t find them
during this primary campaign. Instead, Romney has flipped between
negative attacks on Gingrich and distortions to his own positions, in a
blatant attempt to pander to seniors and Latino voters. There’s a
reason a vast majority of Florida voters want someone new to jump in
this race – they know they can’t trust Mitt Romney to stand by his
beliefs or stand by anything that helps average Americans get ahead."
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