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Hillary Clinton: “Listen, once this is a real race, once you see millions and millions of dollars in opposition research being dumped on…”

On the recordJuly 26, 2015
Listen, once this is a real race, once you see millions and millions of dollars in opposition research being dumped on the heads of these other candidates that their favorability ratings will go down and their trust worthy numbers will go down as well.
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Hillary Clinton
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Hillary Clinton's campaign response regarding the impact of opposition research on her competitors' favorability ratings.

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