On stage at the penultimate South Carolina presidential primary debate Monday, Mitt Romney announced that he’ll likely release his tax returns in April. Republicans and Democrats have been attacking Romney over his tax returns nearly daily after he said he wasn’t planning to release them in a recent interview.
On the debate stage, he announced a change of heart. From a rush transcript:
I think I’ve heard enough from folks saying, look, let’s see your tax records. I have nothing in them that suggests there’s any problem and I’m happy to do so. I sort of feel like we are showing a lot of exposure at this point. And if I become our nominee, and what’s happened in history is people have released them in about april of the coming year and that’s probably what I would do.
