Former presidential candidate Mitt Romney blamed the government for the wildfires burning through California and other Western states Thursday morning.

The Republican said the inability to stop the fires from spreading into neighborhoods and towns is proof that governments, at the state and federal level, failed to invest properly in infrastructure.

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