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In a short interview after his speech, Mr. Bernstein offered some fresh insight on Hillary Clinton's performance in last week's debates: "I think if there is a watershed moment, to use a cliche, in the campaign that has interrupted this notion of inevitibility, that debate was probably it. ... Hillary Rodham Clinton has had a difficult relationship to the truth." He says her campaign has been designed to partly to help her avoid such questions, "and now they will have been unsuccessful at avoiding it. And that's what the campaign represents -- a failure to keep that question from coming front and center." "Now both the opponents and the voters, I think, are confronting this aspect of her history. And that's a big change from two weeks ago." Asked to use his expertise to predict how she would respond, he said: "The worst thing I am is a predictor. You're talking to somebody who thought O.J. Simpson was gonna be convicted. I'm very bad at predicting. But I think part of it is in a statement that I just saw online. They trotted out Bruce Lindsey to say he hadn't been instructed to keep anything secret. Well, that's not the question. Again, it's kind of obfuscation." |
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