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Huma Abedin Testifies Before Benghazi Committee Today

Huma Abedin is a key figure in the Benghazi scandal, and could have information about how the administration changed its talking points to blame the terrorist attack on a Youtube video. Abedin is also at the center of Clinton’s private email scandal and various other controversies involving her work for the private consulting firm Teneo Holdings, having recruited a State Department official to the firm on her government email address while on a trip to Cambodia with Clinton.

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Hillary Clinton Campaign Chairman Won’t Deny DNC Favors Her

Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta is not denying that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) is favoring Clinton over the other four official candidates at this point. “I think the DNC is trying to play it straight. If the DNC wants more debates, Hillary will do more debates,” Podesta promised.

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Bernie Sanders’ Supporters Champion Sanders As Robin Hood

LAS VEGAS – Bernie Sanders’ most ardent supporters at Tuesday night’s Democratic presidential debate carried cardboard cutouts of Bernie Sanders portrayed as ‘Robin Hood,’ a medieval vigilante who steals from the rich and gives to the poor. The pro-Sanders viewing room at the Wynn Hotel was packed with union nurses from National Nurses United and members of other groups, including the Robin Hood Tax organization.

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Vegas Debate: Dems Chase Hillary Clinton As Absent Joe Biden Looms Large

The easiest way for candidates Lincoln Chafee and especially Martin O’Malley to gain traction tonight is to go after the front-runner. Even though Democratic insiders have promised that this debate will be more polite in tone than its Republican counterparts, Hillary Clinton is a moving target for the other five candidates on the stage. This will be similar to the 2008 debates, where challengers including Joe Biden and Bill Richardson helped Barack Obama to break out by tag-teaming Clinton.

Bernie versus Hillary at Las Vegas Debate (Michelle Moons / Breitbart News)

Democrats Arrive in Vegas for First Debate

LAS VEGAS – The Democratic candidates have arrived in Las Vegas for Tuesday night’s kickoff presidential primary debate, which will pit scandal-plagued front-runner Hillary Clinton against surging socialist Bernie Sanders and long-shot opponents Martin O’Malley, Lincoln Chafee, and Jim Webb.

Bernie versus Hillary at Las Vegas Debate (Michelle Moons / Breitbart News)

FLASHBACK: Paul Ryan Worked For John Boehner In College

If Rep. Paul Ryan wants the House Speaker’s job, he likely needs to distance himself from departing House Speaker John Boehner. But a glance at the WayBack Machine reveals that Ryan has been very close to Boehner for a quarter-century.

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Hillary Clinton Disowns Super PAC Started By Her Buddy

“Well I don’t know anything about what you’re saying. I have no knowledge of what they’re doing,” Clinton said on PBS Newshour of the pro-Clinton super PAC Correct the Record, which is run by Hillary Clinton operative and Media Matters founder David Brock. Clinton was trying to distance herself from the PAC because it is generating headlines for hammering her rivals Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden with opposition research.

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Campaign-Trail Joe Biden: Republicans Are ‘Beating’ Hispanics

Vice President Joe Biden said that Republicans are giving Hispanics “a beating” at a Latino Victory Project political meeting. “The beating, the beating that Hispanics are taking at the hands of the Republican caucus,” Biden said during the event.

Hillary Clinton Flip-Flops, Will Oppose Obamatrade

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is flip-flopping on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal. Clinton came out Wednesday against the “Obamatrade” agreement, despite previously supporting the measure 45 times.

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Hillary Clinton Gets 14 Times More Network News Coverage Than Bernie Sanders

In the calendar year 2015, Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign has been the subject of 337 minutes of news coverage on the ABC, CBS, and NBC evening newscasts, according to a new analysis by the Media Research Center. That’s 80 percent of all the time allotted to the Democratic race.

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EXCLUSIVE: Democratic Challenger Larry Lessig: DNC Canceled My Campaign Talks

“We’re fighting to be recognized by the Democratic Party as a campaign,” Lessig told Breitbart News in a wide-ranging interview in which he described Democratic National Committee (DNC) chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz as being “too busy” to welcome him to the campaign trail.

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Big Donors Quit Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting

Top donors and foreign leaders ditched this year’s annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative, run by Bill and Hillary Clinton, reportedly due to Hillary Clinton’s embattled presidential campaign. The CGI meeting, held in New York, was even skipped by President Obama, for the first time since he’s been in the White House.

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