Politicians Pandering in Plaid
Groveling for votes at a country fair? Trying to look ‘relatable’? Plaid is here to help.
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’90s Grunge, ’90s President: Former leader of the free world Bill Clinton takes off his jacket to reveal a lumberjack look during a campaign event for his wife, Hillary, in Milford, New Hampshire.
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Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz wears dad-plaid at a December rally in Las Vegas.
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Did Carly Fiorina wear plaid at Hewlett Packard? The GOP candidate speaks during a “Roast & Ride” campaign event at the Central Iowa Expo in Boone, Iowa, in June 2015.
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No big-government bureaucrat is going to tell Sen. Rand Paul he can’t wear checkered shirts. Here, the Kentucky senator and erstwhile GOP presidential candidate is greeted by state GOP Chair Jennifer Horn at the party headquarters in Concord, N.H., in October 2014.
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Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney may have been born with a silver spoon—but perhaps he was hoping the flannel would make him more relatable a 2011 campaign stop at Giese Manufacturing in Dubuque, Iowa.
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Republican presidential candidate Lamar Alexander pulled out all the plaid stops on a walk across New Hampshire during the 1996 primaries.
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