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After filing a gooey piece on Hillary Clinton, Monday’s NBC Nightly News also gave airtime to the Republican field, but only in the context of attacking 2016 candidate Carly Fiorina over campaign debt she recently finished paying off from her failed 2010 Senate campaign (despite the fact that she’s far from the first to have debt).
Anchor Lester Holt teed up correspondent Hallie Jackson’s report by first mentioning that Fiorina comes in second in the latest New Hampshire poll and third in Iowa but the former Hewlett-Packard CEO “had money issues to clear up before taking another shot at elected office” and follows the pattern of “many candidates who have run for office in the past.”