ABC News’ Michael Falcone reports that GOP candidate Mitt Romney alleges that President Obama will attempt to “assassinate” his character during an interview that will be broadcast on Fox News on Monday night.
“What he’ll do is try and assassinate — on a character basis, his opponents and — or his opposition,“ Romney says while predicting the Obama campaign’s tactics. “I’m hoping that’s me, but I’m not looking forward to those attacks.”
Romney was referring to a blind quote from an older Politico story in which a person described only as a “prominent Democratic strategist aligned with the White House” is quoted as saying: “Unless things change and Obama can run on accomplishments, he will have to kill Romney.”
After the Politico article was published, Obama advisor David Axelrod told The Hill that the article “doesn’t reflect our thinking,” before going on to call Politico’s sourcing “garbage.”
