Mitt 2016? ‘No comment,’ says smiling Obama
President Obama isn’t offering his thoughts on former rival Mitt Romney’s flirtation with a third presidential bid.
Asked for his reaction to the former Massachusetts governor’s apparent interest in another White House run, Obama offered a grin, but little else.
“I have no comment,” Obama said at his joint news conference with British Prime Minister David Cameron Friday.
{mosads}Obama handily beat Romney in the 2012 presidential election, capturing 332 electoral votes to Romney’s 206.
At an event with donors last week in New York, Romney said he was considering again throwing his hat in the ring. Since then, Romney has made a series of phone calls to top Republican Party officials, lawmakers and former aides.
The White House has repeatedly sidestepped questions on Romney’s bid.
“I anticipate that over the course of the next two years, that we’ll have a lot of opportunity to discuss the positions and actions of presidential candidates in both parties. … I’m not going to start today,” press secretary Josh Earnest said earlier this week. “But we’ll have that opportunity moving forward.”
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