“I’ll say he’s setting an entirely new precedent,” said Axelrod when asked by CNN’s Piers Morgan if he believes Romney has paid at least a 13% tax rate.
Advertisement
“Governor Romney thinks he can operate under a different set of rules,” said Axelrod, noting the precedent set by Romney’s father who released 12 years of tax returns in his unsuccessful run for the White House in 1968. “He has a sense of entitlement that he doesn’t have to operate under the same set of rules that presidential candidates have for decades.”
Join the conversation as a VIP Member