President Barack Obama passes his jacket to White House Trip Director Marvin Nicholson before heading over to greet people after arriving at Northern Kentucky International Airport in Boone, Ky., Monday, July 16, 2012. Obama is spending the day campaigning in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
President Barack Obama passes his jacket to White House Trip Director Marvin Nicholson before heading over to greet people after arriving at Northern Kentucky International Airport in Boone, Ky., Monday, July 16, 2012. Obama is spending the day campaigning in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
President Barack Obama greets people after arriving at Northern Kentucky International Airport in Boone, Ky., Monday, July 16, 2012. Obama is spending the day campaigning in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
FILE - In this July 4, 2012 file photo, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H. make a lemonade stop as they walk in the Fourth of July Parade in Wolfeboro, N.H. With the campaign entering a six-week period before the national nominating conventions kick off the fall campaign, how Romney takes advantage of his assets and seeks to overcome his hurdles against President Barack Obama will partly determine whether he?s able before then to break out of what polls show is a close race. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
President Barack Obama's campaign suggests Republican rival Mitt Romney may be a felon. Romney's team calls the president a liar. Both candidates say the other shipped U.S. jobs overseas.
With over three months to go, campaign rhetoric already is close to the boiling point, and temperatures are still rising.
Both candidates took new swipes at each other in television interviews broadcast Monday.
"What does it say about a president whose record is so poor that all he can do in this campaign is attack me?" Romney asked on Fox News. "When people have accused you of a crime, you have every reason to go after them pretty hard."
Obama's deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter suggested last week that Romney either committed "a felony" when he signed Securities and Exchange Commission documents for Bain Capital or lied when he denied working for the private-equity firm after 1999.
Romney says 1999 is when he left, even though SEC filings list him as sole owner and CEO through February 2001.
Obama defended his own more aggressive tone, telling CBS it's because Romney differs so starkly from him on issues. "The more detailed we get into what he's saying and what I'm saying, I think that serves the democratic process well," the president said.
Romney disputes Obama's claim that he outsourced jobs at Bain. "When a president doesn't tell the truth," says a narrator in a Romney ad, "how can we trust him to lead?"
Romney counters that Obama is the outsourcer, spending taxpayer stimulus money on work done in China and steering federal contracts and appointments toward top campaign contributors
Obama campaigned Monday in Cincinnati. Ohio is a critical swing state for both parties.
Romney raised funds in Louisiana and Mississippi with Louisiana Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal, a running-mate possibility.
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