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ericson00

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Thu Feb 11, 2016, 09:41 PM Feb 2016

Jim Clyburn Implies Pending Hillary Endorsement

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/02/11/jim-clyburn-clinton-firewall-mcgovern-lessons/80183214/
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/rep-james-clyburn-weighing-presidential-endorsement-ahead-sc/story?id=36835890

"I have a wife and three daughters, so you figure it out," Clyburn said, laughing.

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He refused to say whether he was more likely to support Clinton or Sanders, and he described his own family as divided. His daughter is "very much for Hillary," he said...

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Sanders, now reaching out to black leaders, has emphasized that he was active in the civil rights movement in the 1960s.

"Well, she was, too," Clyburn responded. "She went to Mississippi. She worked for the Children's Defense Fund."

Clyburn, at 12 terms the dean of the South Carolina congressional delegation, dismissed as water under the bridge a confrontation between him and Bill Clinton after Hillary Clinton lost the 2008 South Carolina primary to Obama, an incident Clyburn related in his 2014 memoir, Blessed Experiences. The former president called him just past 2 a.m. on primary night to warn him, "If you bastards want a fight, you damn well will get one."

There are no hard feelings, Clyburn says. "It was a phone call from a husband who was supporting his wife in a political campaign," he says. "I understand that."

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