John McCain and Mitt Romney carried their bitter Florida clash into California on Wednesday, each impugning the other’s honesty in a hot-tempered debate as they sought to attract voters casting ballots in five days in a coast-to-coast array of primaries and caucuses.
McCain, caustic for much of the debate, castigated Romney for what he said was a past insinuation that America should withdraw from Iraq. McCain contrasted that with his own early support for the ”surge” of American troops that has reduced violence in some areas of the country.
