Romney Cancels Campaign Events Due to Hurricane

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Republican White House candidate Mitt Romney canceled campaign events on Monday and Tuesday as a show of sensitivity as millions of Americans hunker down as Hurricane Sandy approaches.

The decision, announced by his campaign, means that Romney will not appear in Wisconsin later on Monday and he will also postpone events elsewhere on Tuesday, complicating his bid to maintain momentum a week before election day.

Romney communications director Gail Gitcho said that the former Massachusetts governor and his running mate Paul Ryan would cancel events "out of sensitivity for the millions of Americans in the path of Hurricane Sandy."

"Governor Romney believes this is a time for the nation and its leaders to come together to focus on those Americans who are in harm's way," Gitcho said, as Romney followed through on plans to hold one event in Ohio on Monday.

Romney's move followed President Barack Obama's decision to halt campaigning and return to Washington to manage the U.S. government's effort to deal with the storm, expected to roar ashore in northeastern states later Monday.

Obama had been due to campaign in swing states Florida, Ohio and Virginia on Monday and to travel to Colorado and Wisconsin on Tuesday.

Romney had been expected in Iowa and Ohio on Tuesday.

The storm amounted to a sudden disruption at a crucial stage of the campaign as Romney and Obama make their closing arguments in a bid to break the deadlock in their neck-and-neck race to election day on November 6.

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