Former Bill Clinton labor secretary thinks Trump can win it all

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Robert Reich, the former labor secretary under President Bill Clinton, thinks Donald Trump has a real shot at the presidency in a general election battle against Hillary Clinton.

“Throughout the Republican primaries, pundits and pollsters repeatedly told us he’d peaked, that his most recent outrageous statement was his downfall, that he was viewed as so unlikable he didn’t stand a chance of getting the nomination,” Reich, who endorsed Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders in February, wrote of Trump in an op-ed on Monday for Newsweek.

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