PRESS RELEASE from the Democratic National
Committee
For Immediate Release
Date: March
6, 2012
Contact: DNC
Press
DNC
Chair
Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s Statement on Tonight's Republican
Primary and Caucus Results
Washington,
D.C. –
DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz released the following statement on
the GOP Presidential Primary and Caucus Results tonight:
“The
muddled mess that is the Republican presidential nominating contest
continued tonight as Republican voters who are unenthusiastic and
unmotivated, failed to consolidate around a single candidate.
It was a
particularly bad night for Mitt Romney who once again failed to close
the deal with Republican Primary voters despite the millions he's spent
and the more than half a decade he's been trying.
"Mitt
Romney's stuck in a dead heat with Rick Santorum in Ohio and might just
squeak out a win there despite out-spending him there four to one and
pummeling Santorum with millions in negative ads. If his weak
performance in Ohio wasn't bad enough, Romney under performed in
Virginia where his only competition was Ron Paul, came in third in
North Dakota after winning there in 2008 and is losing among
independents and young voters in key contests across the
country.
"Even
after pandering to the Tea Party on everything from immigration to
contraception, refusing to condemn the slanderous rhetoric of Rush
Limbaugh, and after trying to buy the election with millions in
negative ads from him and his allies, Mitt Romney is barely limping
ahead of a weak and flawed field. Voters in his own party are learning
what independent voters who have flocked away from him in droves
already know: Mitt Romney has no core values, will say anything to get
elected and can't be trusted to
lead."
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