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Republicans looking to defeat President Barack Obama in November’s general election are rooting for the American economy to fail, the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee said in an interview Sunday. Appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz said criticism from Republicans on Friday’s worse-than-expected jobs report was reflective of their political motives.
“What’s really bothersome to me is that it almost seems like my Republican colleagues in Congress and Mitt Romney are rooting for economic failure,” Wasserman Schultz told CNN chief political correspondent Candy Crowley. “I mean, they’ve been hyper focused on one job, Barack Obama’s, for really the last two years. And we all need to be pulling together to focus on moving the economy forward for the middle class and for working families.”
“Because we’ve now had 25 straight months of private sector job growth, more than 4 million jobs created, and where actually at this point in our recovery, we’ve created seven times more jobs than at the same point in the recovery in 2001, I’d say we’re making slow but steady progress,” Wasserman Schultz said.
She slammed GOP plans as focused only on “making sure millionaires and billionaires can continue to do even better.”
“That’s a pretty huge contrast,” she said.
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