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Watch Mitt Romney Crack a “Birth Certificate” Joke on the Campaign Trail

Mitt Romney arrives to board his campaign plane at Lea County Regional Airport in Hobbs, New Mexico, on August 23, 2012

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Mitt Romney, stumping in Michigan today, drew some cheap laughs from the crowd with a not-so-subtle crack about President Obama’s birth certificate.

“Now I love being home in this place where Ann and I were raised, where both of us were born,” the GOP hopeful told the crowd. “Ann was born in Henry Ford Hospital, I was born at Harper Hospital. No one’s ever asked to see my birth certificate, they know that this is the place that we were born and raised.”

As you’ll see in the clip below (via BuzzFeed), the crowd ate it up: