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Hillary Clinton: “If she would have spoke to the blue-collar worker, she would be sitting there.”

On the recordDecember 4, 2016
If she would have spoke to the blue-collar worker, she would be sitting there.
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Hillary Clinton
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

The speaker suggests that Hillary Clinton failed to connect with blue-collar workers, which contributed to her electoral loss.

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