Mitt Romney's campaign is hoping to keep pressure on the Obama campaign over a controversial super-PAC ad that links the Republican presidential hopeful to the death of a cancer patient, issuing a statement Monday blasting the president's reelection campaign.
“It’s been a week since President Obama’s Super PAC unveiled its disgraceful attack on Mitt Romney — and the President is still nowhere to be found," said Romney spokesman Ryan Williams in the statement. "After repeatedly raising money for the organization, President Obama’s advisers won’t condemn the ad, and they won’t even admit the people running the Super PAC are Democrats. Americans deserve better from their president than shameful dodges and unanswered questions.”
On Monday, Obama adviser Robert Gibbs reiterated previous statements by the Obama campaign and White House noting that the president cannot legally coordinate with the super-PAC under federal election law.
“I don’t have any control over that ad. I’m not part of Priorities super-PAC. I’ve never raised money for Priorities super-PAC," Gibbs told MSNBC.
Pressed by host Chuck Todd as to whether the Obama campaign should call for the ad to come down — as it urged John Edwards to do during the 2008 Democratic primary when an outside group ran an ad attacking then-Illinois Sen. Obama — Gibbs said he didn't remember that incident.
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