Mitt Romney called a rare press conference this morning to respond to June’s tepid jobs report, calling the unchanged unemployment rate “unacceptably high,” and repeatedly referring to the numbers as a “kick in the gut.”

In the hastily-called press conference, Romney’s first in more than a month, the presumptive GOP nominee conceded that some factors in the slow pace of jobs growth may be out of  President Obama’s control, but said also that the president had failed at taking advantage of opportunities to improve the labor market that he could influence.

“In any jobs figures, there are going to be factors that come and go that you can’t control, but the things you can control you want to get right,” Romney told reporters gathered in a hardware store here. “In the case of President Obama, this is not a monthly statistic or even a yearly statistic. We’ve looked at now almost four years of policies that have not gotten America working again.”

By Garrett Haake, NBC 

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