Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) on Friday accused Mitt Romney of rooting against the economic recovery, pointing to a report that his campaign urged Florida Gov. Rick Scott to downplay his state's economic success.
"Unfortunately, the Republicans in Congress continue to demonstrate that they're rooting for failure, as evidenced, Soledad, by the Romney campaign telling my state's governor they should tone down the progress and the celebration about the progress that our state's made because that's not in line with what the Romney campaign wants to telegraph about the president's record on job creation," Wasserman Schultz told CNN's Soledad O'Brien.
A spokesman for Scott denied the report Thursday, and the Romney campaign said the notion their candidate would ask Republican governors to downplay economic improvements was "not in line with Gov. Romney's thoughts or his message."
But the DNC chairwoman scoffed at the pushback against the story.
"Of course they've denied it," Wasserman Schultz said.
The chairwoman also knocked Romney for his speech Thursday to Hispanic government officials in her home state of Florida. Romney for the first time provided an outline of his immigration plan, but Wasserman Schultz said voters concerned about the issue should still be skeptical, considering his prior statements on the subject.
"Mitt Romney was about a vague as he could be. There was no specific proposal. No clear path so the 12 million undocumented immigrants would under a Romney presidency what their future would hold," Wasserman Schultz said.
