Washington Week with The Atlantic

Will 2016 race be the most negative in history?

08/21/2015 | 8m 29s  | Video has closed captioning.

With 22 presidential candidates and billions of dollars set to be spent on campaign ads, the 2016 race for the White House is shaping up to be the most negative in history. Morning Consult's Reid Wilson says that Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton are still on track to be their party's nominees, but they are both facing hard opinions from voters.

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