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Hillary Clinton: “I'm not exploiting anything at all. I'm not playing, as some people say, the gender card here in Las Vegas. I'm just…”

On the recordNovember 14, 2007
I'm not exploiting anything at all. I'm not playing, as some people say, the gender card here in Las Vegas. I'm just trying to play the winning card. And I understand very well that people are not attacking me because I'm a woman. They're attacking me because I'm ahead.
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Hillary Clinton
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Hillary Clinton responds to accusations of exploiting gender in her campaign, asserting that her opponents are attacking her due to her leading position.

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