Democrats’ campaign finance hypocrisy

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Faced with President Trump’s booming economy and the lowest unemployment rate in history for African-Americans and Hispanics, Democrats are struggling to find a rallying cry ahead of the November midterms. Armed with little more than #HateTrump rhetoric, they’ve fallen back on an age-old hobbyhorse: “Campaign finance reform.”

In House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s words, “Republicans have turned the already swampy GOP Congress into a cesspool of self-enrichment, secret money and special interests.” Of course, she makes no mention of the millions of dollars in corporate money she’s collected herself over the years.

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