DNC executive director Patrick Gaspard accused Republican nominee Mitt Romney of "cheering for failure" in the U.S. economy, in a Friday interview with MSNBC's Tamron Hall.
TAMRON HALL: Let me get your reaction to Gov. Romney on CNBC blaming the president's policies, saying this is a disastrous report today.
PATRICK GASPARD: Of course it's no surprise that Mitt Romney would be politicizing the economic challenges that we have as we've worked to pull ourselves out of worst recession since the great depression. We've now had 27 straight months of private-sector job growth, 4.3 million jobs added in this economy. The president is right, of course, that we have so much more work to do which is exactly why he has pushed congress on passing a bipartisan jobs plan to put construction workers back to work, to protect the jobs of teachers and firefighters and to make sure that we have infrastructure in the long term. As I said, it is no surprise that Mitt Romney would be cheering for a failure in this economy right now. He is trying to score some political points. Instead he should be out there speaking to republican congressional leaders to get them to do what they need to do to put Americans back to work.