Romney rejects Obama bid for 5-year tax disclosure

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney leaves a fundraiser in Charlotte, N.C., on Wednesday Aug. 15, 2012.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney leaves a fundraiser in Charlotte, N.C., on Wednesday Aug. 15, 2012.

— Barack Obama’s re-election campaign kept up pressure against Republican rival Mitt Romney on two fronts Friday, launching a new ad defending the president’s record on Medicare while challenging Romney to release at least five years of tax returns.

Obama campaign manager Jim Messina said the president’s camp would seek no further disclosures if Romney would release five years of his individual tax returns. The Romney campaign, which often says there will be no end to Democrats’ demands for tax records, rejected the offer.

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