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Eric Hovde, the Republican Senate candidate in Wisconsin, has described himself as an “outsider” and a self-made entrepreneur, but an examination of his business dealings shows that Hovde benefited from insider connections at the highest levels of political power in Washington, D.C.
In 1987, a year after graduating from college, Hovde and his father, Donald Hovde, launched Hovde Financial. And the elder Hovde had connections at the highest level of American politics.
