Romney targeted by Obama side as race shifts focus

Mitt Romney’s campaign has made a practice of tearing down fellow Republicans in the race for the presidential nomination, but now he’s coming under heavy assault himself as president Barack Obama’s team revs up its campaign for the November election.

With Romney forecast to win today’s primary in Wisconsin, a victory that would all but end the Republican nomination battle, vice-president Joe Biden began the Democratic attack, calling Romney “out of touch” with the lives of middle-class Americans.

Secretary of state Hillary Clinton criticised the former Massachusetts governor for holding backwards-looking views on foreign policy, and Biden said he was “stuck in a Cold War mentality”.