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Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer said Thursday that Mitt Romney was reticent to discuss his Mexican heritage on the campaign trail because his father was “born on a polygamy commune in Mexico.”

Schweitzer's comments came in the middle of a discussion on presidential swing states, when the governor argued Romney would have a “tall order to position Hispanics to vote for him."

When Ben Jacobs of the Daily Beast noted that was ironic because Romney's father had been born in Mexico, Schweitzer said Romney couldn't mention his heritage because it carried political liability.

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