Presidential candidates are weighing in after the 2012 Republican nominee became the most prominent member of his party to call for the removal of the Confederate flag flying above South Carolina’s Capitol since the shooting at a Charleston church.
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Romney's statement insisting on the flag's removal is the strongest from a member of the Republican party since a white gunman walked into a historically black church and killed nine people Wednesday. Romney made a similar statement in 2008.
"I think about how many South Carolinians have served in our military and who are serving today under our flag and I believe that we should have one flag that we all pay honor to, as I know that most people in South Carolina do every single day," Clinton, who was then running for the Democratic nomination, told the Associated Press.
"I personally would like to see it removed from the Statehouse grounds."
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