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Adam Kinzinger: “I think this is an extension of something that was coined a little bit ago, a year or 2 ago, the 'lead from behind'…”

On the recordJune 4, 2013
I think this is an extension of something that was coined a little bit ago, a year or 2 ago, the 'lead from behind' strategy.
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Adam Kinzinger
Republican · Illinois

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Kinzinger critiques the 'lead from behind' strategy as a decline in U.S. leadership.

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