Romney tweaking Obama on economy
Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney will take dead aim at President Obama’s handling of the economy tomorrow when he holds a news conference at a closed Pennsylvania factory the president once said would benefit from the federal stimulus law.
Obama visited the Allentown Metal Works in December 2009 as he touted his $787 billion stimulus bill.
The more than 100-year-old plant, which made heavy steel construction components including trusses beneath the new World Trade Center, subsequently closed this past January.
Romney has argued that Obama’s plans have not worked and the country should give an experienced businessman such as him a chance to resurrect the economy.
“The 2012 election is going to be a referendum on the president’s failure to turn around the economy,’’ Romney told the Philadelphia Inquirer today. “He’s grown detached and isolated from what people are feeling and experiencing.’’
The former Massachusetts governor’s news conference begins just after 4 p.m., coinciding with Obama’s own visit to Philadelphia for a fund-raiser.
Romney himself has been holding such events as he raises money across the country for his own campaign.
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