Lorsque des intérêts indépendants interviennent pour dénoncer les exagérations de certains candidats républicains, la crédibilité de ceux-ci en est automatiquement affectée. Romney aura bien du mal à réellement se distancier d'Obama, tout comme Hunstman.
"Mitt Romney walked back his oft-repeated claim that President Obama made the recession worse, telling reporters in Pennsylvania on Thursday that he never meant to suggest any such thing.
Asked by NBC how he squared his claim that Obama worsened the lousy economy he inherited given that the stock market has surged, unemployment is down from its peak, and the economy is no longer shrinking, Romney demurred.
"I didn't say that things are worse," he said. He went on to make the case that Obama had failed to do enough on jobs, a much less inflammatory claim.
"The president of the United States, when he put in place his stimulus plan and borrowed $787 billion, said he would hold unemployment below 8% -- and 8% seemed like an awfully high number," he said. "It hasn't been below 8% since. That's failure."
In the past Romney has repeatedly argued the recession was both lengthier and more severe as a result of Obama's economic policies, a claim that has drawn the ire of some independent fact-checkers.
"He didn't create the recession, but he made it worse and longer," he said in his first debate in New Hampshire."
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