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Democratic Presidential Hopefuls Compete To Spurn Establishment Cash

All of the party's announced presidential candidates say they don't want money from corporate PACs. But they wouldn't have gotten much from those PACs anyway.
Surrounded by her family, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., announces that she will run for president in 2020 on Jan. 16, 2019, in Troy, N.Y.

As Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris and Kirsten Gillibrand jumped into the Democratic presidential nomination contest, they staked out the same position against corporate campaign cash.

"The money in politics is corrupting. It controls everything," Gillibrand told a gathering in Des Moines, Iowa, last month. "You've got to take on the whole system, and you have to get money out of politics. And that's why, as a very small

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