Mitt Romney's file:
Romney

Republican from Massachusetts

Mitt Romney served a single term as governor of Massachusetts, elected to that post in 2002. Romney has worked as a turn-around expert for private companies, including Staples and Dominos Pizza, and in 2002 took over management of the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.

Recent statements involving Mitt Romney

On deporting illegal immigrants.

Says Mitt Romney’s campaign "has already spent more on negative ads than John McCain did during his entire presidential run."

"Gov. Romney cut off kosher meals for Jewish senior citizens who were on Medicaid to save $5 a day."

In 1992, Mitt Romney "gave money to Democrats for Congress."

"This president went before the United Nations and castigated Israel for building settlements. He said nothing about thousands of rockets being rained in on Israel from the Gaza Strip."

Recent stories featuring Mitt Romney

Does Obama 'demonize,' 'denigrate' almost every sector of our economy?:

Mitt Romney has adopted a new attack against President Barack Obama -- that the president "demonizes and denigrates almost every sector of our economy." We took a closer look by reviewing dozens of Obama's speeches and public remarks.

PolitiFact's guide to the Florida GOP primary:

We review our fact-checking of the TV ads and debates for the Florida primary.

Fact-checking the Florida primary:

What were some of the sharpest attack lines of the past week?

Contest for Hispanic vote heats up GOP primary:

We fact-check two claims as Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich fight for the Hispanic vote in the Republican primary for president.

Fact-checking the Tampa Republican debate:

The Republican debate in Tampa turned into a sparring match Monday night as Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney attacked each other on their records in political office.

Gingrich began the debate with a spirited defense of his record as speaker of the House of Representatives. He repeated a claim we've heard before, that "When I was speaker, we had four consecutive balanced budgets." In fact, two of those balanced budgets occured after he left office. We rated that claim False.

Romney attacked Gingrich for his record, claiming that "at the end of four years, he had to resign in disgrace. We interviewed experts about Gingrich's resignation and found that it was more complicated than Romney described.

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