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Did David Petraeus endorse Hillary Clinton?

By Charles Hoskinson
Published February 10, 2014 5:00am ET
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Did David Petraeus endorse Hillary Clinton?
Many Republicans were hoping in 2012 that Gen. David Petraeus would retire and seek the GOP nomination to challenge President Obama, thinking he'd be a sure winner. (AP/Ben Margot) | Ben Margot

Many Republicans were hoping in 2012 that Gen. David Petraeus would retire and seek the GOP nomination to challenge President Obama, thinking he’d be a sure winner.

The big problem with that hope — other than the fact Petraeus wasn’t interested, of course — is that no one was really sure the general was a Republican.

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