Gov. Mitt Romney said Sunday he will release his tax returns on Tuesday as he tries to pivot from an issue that dragged him down in his South Carolina primary loss to Newt Gingrich.
Romney said he’ll post his 2010 tax return and 2011 estimate online Tuesday, after he was hammered by his rivals and gave awkward debate answers last week as he said he would release his tax returns in April.
“I think we made a mistake holding off as long as we did,” Romney said in an interview on Fox News Sunday. “It was a distraction. We want to get back to the real issues of the campaign.”
Romney’s tax returns became a major issue in the South Carolina primary, as he said he was holding off on releasing them and then said that his effective tax rate was “probably” about 15 percent. While Romney was leading in South Carolina at the start of the week, the issue dragged him down as Gingrich overtook him in a 40-28 win Saturday.
Romney talked about moving on from South Carolina and being in the race for the long haul, outlining the criticisms he’ll continue to launch against Gingrich as the race moves to Florida.
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You mean we’ll find out he is incredibly rich? Talk about a surprise.
Another major issue which will continue to plague him is the use of the Cayman Islands as a tax shelter.
good point ichbin, that and the fact that he’s white, has real biz experience and earned his own money instead of being black community organizer successfully launched out of the ghetto, welfare and foodstamps thru the use of affirmative action will haunt him as well.