By KASIE HUNT and TOM RAUM
Associated Press
SPARTANBURG, S.C. – Mitt Romney tried doggedly Wednesday to sidestep the political furor he had started a day earlier by revealing he pays federal taxes at a rate of about 15 percent, less than millions of middle-income American families.
Facing a new controversy, his campaign confirmed that Romney has money invested in the Cayman Islands but said he was not getting any tax break.
Newt Gingrich, his main rival in this weekend’s South Carolina primary, poked at Romney anew and disclosed that his personal tax rate is more than double that of Romney.