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Presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Thursday that he hoped the president wouldn't fundraise off an issue "as tender and sensitive" as marriage and doubled down on his call for federal legislation that would ban same sex nuptials. 

"You know, i don't think the matter of marriage is really a fundraising matter either for the president â€" it's certainly not for me. I don't know what our figures look like," Romney told Fox News when asked about reports that the president's reelection team had raised more than a million dollars in the 90 minutes following his announcement endorsing gay marriage. "I hope the issue as tender and sensitive that the marriage issue is not a source of fundraising for either of us."

But Romney said he didn't believe the announcement was a political decision on the president's part, and acknowledged that his stance on the subject could also alienate some voters.

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