“President Obama was shocked and irritated by Mitt Romney’s concession call in the 2012 presidential election — and claimed Romney insinuated that Obama won only by getting out the black vote, according to a new book by presidential campaign strategist David Axelrod,” the New York Daily News reports.
Obama was “unsmiling during the call, and slightly irritated when it was over,” Axelrod writes.
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