Obama campaign's Cutter, RNC's Priebus battle over China's role in election

The deputy campaign manager for President Obama and the head of the Republican National Committee got into a Twitter spat over the role of China in the presidential election on Friday.

Stephanie Cutter tweeted a Reuters link based on commentary in China’s official news agency Xinhua, which is overseen by the ruling political party, on Friday morning. The piece accuses Mitt Romney, who campaigns against China as a “currency manipulator,” of profiting from Chinese business.

Reince Priebus blasted Cutter and the campaign for the move, and the RNC fired off an email in response, touting Democrats on Twitter who objected to the use of “the official mouthpiece of Beijing regime” to counter Romney.

Must read:China's Xinhua slams Romney for making his money off Chinese companies before running for pres. #hypocrisy reut.rs/Ou5wIr

— Stephanie Cutter (@stefcutter) September 14, 2012

Offensive that the Obama campaign would use the Chinese propaganda paper Xinhua to promote their campaign.

— Reince Priebus (@Reince) September 14, 2012

.@reince What's offensive is that Mitt thinks voters will believe he'll be tough on China -he's personally profiting of China as we speak.

— Stephanie Cutter (@stefcutter) September 14, 2012

.@stefcutter Chinese propaganda backed spin doesn’t change Obama’s record of letting jobs go to China & doing nothing to stop their cheating

— Reince Priebus (@Reince) September 14, 2012

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