Romney Stumps for Tea Party-Backed Senate Candidate Mourdock
EVANSVILLE, Ind. – Mitt Romney lent a hand to a Tea Party-backed Senate candidate, Richard Mourdock, in Indiana today, campaigning with him at a barbecue stop here this afternoon to urge voters to elect the state treasure this fall.
“We got to get this guy elected in the U.S. Senate, you know that,” Romney said to applause from patrons seated at tables in Stepto’s BBQ Shack. “He has proven as the treasurer that he knows how to make sure to balance books. He’s also proven as a campaigner that he can take his message to the people of Indiana. They’ll support him.”
At a stop that had the feel of the Republican primary events held in small restaurants across the country earlier this year, Romney, campaigning with Mourdock for the first time, discussed the common vision he shares with the Indiana Republican to cut spending in Washington.
“You can’t keep spending massively more than you take in without putting America in peril. And so a treasurer knows that, a governor knows that. It seems that everybody in America knows that in their households, businesses know it, families know it,” Romney said. “There’s only one place in America that doesn’t seem to understand that you can’t keep spending massively more than you take in every year and that’s Washington.”
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