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Hey, Candidates: Stop Trying to Seem Authentic
“EVERYDAY AMERICANS”
Nobody is buying the transparently inauthentic “authenticity” the Hillary Clintons of the world keep selling. So why even bother with this very strange ritual of staged chats and photo-ops?
Stuart Stevens
Published
May 1 2015
5:15AM EDT
Kevin Lamarque/Reuters
Stuart Stevens
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