Hillary Clinton Woos Des Moines Register in Hopes of Endorsement Repeat

Whether a nod from the newspaper pays actual dividends is debatable.

Hillary Clinton meets with Des Moines Register editorial board on Sept. 22, 2015.

Photographer: John McCormick/Bloomberg Politics
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Hillary Clinton rarely spends close to two hours in one place answering questions from journalists. For the largest and most influential newspaper in Iowa—the Des Moines Register—she made an exception Tuesday evening.

“I think that's right,” the former secretary of state said when the newspaper's editorial page editor asked her whether this was her first such meeting of the 2016 campaign.