Newt Gingrich commended rival Mitt Romney for agreeing to release his tax returns, and said it should put the issue to the side in the Republican nomination fight.
“I think that’s a very good thing he’s doing,” Gingrich said on NBC’s Meet the Press of Romney’s decision to release his 2010 returns on Tuesday. “And I commend him for it and I think it’s exactly the right thing to do. And I think as far as I’m concerned, that particular issue is now set to the side and we can now go on and talk about other bigger and more important things.”
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Gingrich pressed the tax returns issue this week by releasing his own returns and urging Romney to do the same. But Romney struggled in two debates to explain why he wouldn’t be releasing them before April.
On Fox News Sunday this morning, Romney acknowledged that it was a mistake to hold off on releasing them and that it likely hurt him in South Carolina.
