Romney claims Obama is attacking ‘success’

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Mitt Romney stopped running from his wealth Thursday, saying he won’t apologize for his family’s success after President Obama suggested that the presumptive GOP nominee was born with a “silver spoon in his mouth.”

“I’m certainly not going to apologize for my dad and his success in his life,” Romney said on Fox News. “I know the president likes to attack fellow Americans. He’s always looking for a scapegoat, particularly those [who] have been successful like my dad, and I’m not going to rise to that.”

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