Hillary Clinton
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Back in another lifetime, now-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy upset a bunch of his Republican colleagues when he just straight-up announced on Fox News that the Select Committee on Benghazi was making then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton look bad, and suggested that, hey, that was probably just the goal all along??? 🙃🙃
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Insecure as they were, the hyper-partisans who targeted the Clintons found she could be demonized in a way that hurt him indirectly and, given her own political potential, degraded her future prospects.