Hillary Clinton: Obama’s record made it hard to run as an ‘agent of change’

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Hillary Clinton said in a new interview that her inability to run on an “agenda of change,” coming off of former President Barack Obama’s two terms, was a significant problem for her 2016 campaign.

“It is true that when you run to succeed a two-term president of your own party, you have a historical headwind blowing against you,” Clinton told radio host Hugh Hewitt. “It’s not just this campaign can be set apart from everything that’s ever happened in our politics. It is a challenge.”

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