Nancy Pelosi on Mitt Romney: 'I hope he's their nominee'


House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is confident Hillary Clinton would crush Mitt Romney in a hypothetical presidential election.
"Let me put it this way — I hope he's their nominee," she told The Hill.
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