DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s Statement On Results of Wisconsin, Maryland and Washington, DC Republican Primaries

DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s Statement On Results of Wisconsin, Maryland and Washington, DC Republican Primaries

Washington, DC—DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz released the following statement tonight on the results of the Republican primaries in Wisconsin, Maryland and Washington, DC:

“Mitt Romney has significantly more work to do before he can become the Republican nominee, and he is doing incredible damage to himself along the way.  His pandering to the extreme right wing of the Republican Party has done him great damage with women, Hispanics, and independents, all of whom will be critical in the general election.  That’s because the policies he advocates would do massive damage to American families who are striving to get ahead.  Just in the past week, Mitt Romney called Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker a ‘hero’ – a man who has turned his back so thoroughly on middle class families, seniors and workers that voters are seeking to recall him from office.  And Romney has accepted the endorsement of and praised Representative Paul Ryan, whose budget proposal – endorsed by Romney - would end Medicare as we know it so that millionaires and billionaires could get a tax break. Ryan's budget, embraced by Romney, would make arbitrary cuts to programs essential to middle-class families like education and clean energy.

“Maybe that’s why Mitt Romney and his allies have been forced to spend millions of dollars flooding the airwaves with negative ads against his competition. In Wisconsin alone, Romney and his allies outspent Rick Santorum and his allies by more than 3.5-to-1, and even after all that money the Republican party is still unenthusiastic and having trouble coalescing around their presumptive nominee.  Mitt Romney has pledged his allegiance to the Tea Party and because of this, he will continue to alienate critical general election voters as the Republicans continue their slog to the nomination—which is bad for the Republican Party come November.”