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Romney says Obama shouldn't use bin Laden in campaign

Last updated Tuesday, May 1, 2012 - 11:10pm

NEW YORK -- Republican Mitt Romney said Tuesday that it was "totally appropriate" for President Barack Obama to claim credit for taking out Osama bin Laden a year ago but that his decision to politicize a unifying event for the country was not.

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Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney greets people in the crowd as a Secret Service agent watches at right during a campaign stop at a building supply store in Green Bay, Wis., Monday, April 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Romney, Obama trade jabs

Beth Fouhy, Kasie Hunt The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, April 3, 2012 - 10:41am

MILWAUKEE — Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney urged Republicans to shift focus to the general election, giving a subtle push to rival Rick Santorum as voters headed to polls Tuesday in Wisconsin, Maryland and the District of Columbia.

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Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wis., Friday, March 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Romney wealth in focus on campaign trail

Beth Fouhy, Steve Peoples The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, March 31, 2012 - 3:50pm

APPLETON, Wis. — Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney on Friday defended his personal wealth amid intensifying criticism from his main GOP rival and President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign, unlikely allies working to portray the former businessman as out of touch with most Americans.

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Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, accompanied by comedian Jeff Foxworthy speaks during a campaign stop at the Whistle Stop Cafe, Monday, March 12, 2012 in Mobile, Ala. (AP Photo/ John David Mercer)

Voting in Alabama, Mississippi could clarify race

Beth Fouhy The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, March 13, 2012 - 10:57am

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Mitt Romney hoped to seal his status as the Republican presidential front-runner with a thus-far-elusive victory in the Deep South, a region that has been slow to embrace the former Massachusetts governor.

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Gingrich: Romney weakest GOP frontrunner in 100 years

Beth Fouhy, Phillip Elliot The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, March 11, 2012 - 5:16pm

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum on Sunday nudged rival Newt Gingrich to step aside, arguing a head-to-head contest between himself and Mitt Romney should "occur sooner rather than later." A defiant Gingrich predicted victories in Tuesday’s primaries in Alabama and Mississippi and called Romney the weakest Republican front-runner in nearly a century.

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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney greets supporters at a caucus, Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012, in Portland, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Romney wins Maine caucuses

Beth Fouhy, Steve Peoples The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, February 13, 2012 - 11:52am

PORTLAND, Maine -- Mitt Romney narrowly won Maine's Republican caucuses, state party officials announced Saturday, providing his campaign with a much-needed boost after three straight losses earlier this week. But the former Massachusetts governor won just a plurality of the Maine vote, suggesting he still has work to do to unite GOP voters behind his candidacy.

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A fourth defeat for Romney? Lack of ads could hurt

Beth Fouhy, Steve Peoples The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 6:13pm

NEW YORK -- Mitt Romney is in danger of losing his fourth straight state in Saturday's caucuses in Maine, where he and his allies have been all but absent from TV.

That's no coincidence.

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Donald Trump talks to reporters prior to a news conference in Las Vegas. Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012, with Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, where Trump says he will endorse Romney. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Trump endorses Romney

Beth Fouhy, Kasie Hunt The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, February 2, 2012 - 6:07pm

LAS VEGAS -- Donald Trump on Thursday announced his endorsement of Mitt Romney for president, saying the former Massachusetts governor is "not going to allow bad things to continue to happen to this country we all love."

The reality show host and real estate mogul appeared with Romney and his wife, Ann, at a packed news conference at the Las Vegas hotel that bears Trump's name.

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Republican presidential candidate, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, and his wife Anita, arrive for a news conference in North Charleston, S.C., Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012, to announce he is suspending his campaign and endorsing Newt Gingrich. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Perry drops out of presidential race; endorses Gingrich

Beth Fouhy, David Espo The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, January 19, 2012 - 2:26pm

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Thursday dropped out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination and endorsed Newt Gingrich, adding a fresh layer of unpredictability to the campaign two days before the South Carolina primary.

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Republican presidential candidate, former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman and his wife Mary Kaye tour the Goss International plant in Durham, N.H., Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)

Romney trains fire at Obama, Huntsman at Romney in NH

Beth Fouhy, Philip Elliott The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, January 5, 2012 - 12:06pm

SALEM, N.H. -- Shooting past each other, Republicans Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum took aim at President Barack Obama's economic policies on Thursday as they jockeyed for support in New Hampshire and courted voters in conservative bellwether South Carolina.

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Trump won't host debate

Beth Fouhy The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, December 13, 2011 - 2:23pm

NEW YORK -- Donald Trump says he is pulling out of a Republican presidential debate he had agreed to moderate in Iowa.

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(RICHARD DREW/The Associated Press) Sharon Bialek, left, a Chicago-area woman, prepares to addresses a news conference at the Friars Club, with her attorney Gloria Allred, in New York, Monday, Nov. 7, 2011. Bialek accused Republican presidential contender Herman Cain of making an unwanted sexual advance against her more than a decade ago, saying she wanted to provide “a face and a voice” to support other accusers who have so far remained anonymous.

Woman accuses Cain of bold sexual advance

Beth Fouhy, Jack Gillum The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, November 8, 2011 - 8:21am

NEW YORK — Leaving little to the imagination, a Chicago-area woman on Monday accused Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain of making a crude sexual advance more than a decade ago when she was seeking his help finding a job.

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New woman accuses Cain of bold sexual advance

Beth Fouhy, Jack Gillum The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, November 7, 2011 - 2:34pm

NEW YORK -- Speaking in a halting voice, a Chicago-area woman accused Republican presidential contender Herman Cain on Monday of making an unwanted sexual advance against her more than a decade ago, saying she wanted to provide "a face and a voice" to support other accusers who have so far remained anonymous.

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