On Tuesday, she continued to deal with fallout from her comments about her own personal finances, and being "dead broke."
Clinton said that she and her husband have "gone through some of the same challenges that many people have" and that they "understand what that struggle is."
Clinton's Senate financial disclosure forms, filed for 2000, show assets between $781,000 and almost $1.8 million. The forms allow senators to report assets in broad ranges. The same form, however, showed that the Clintons owed between $2.3 million and $10.6 million in legal bills to four firms.
The Clintons, though, did all right for themselves, and quickly -- Bill Clinton almost immediately hit the speaking circuit, making millions along the way.
Meanwhile, despite the family's debt, they got help back in 1999 from fundraiser Terry McAuliffe (now, the governor of Virginia) to secure a loan for a $1.7 million home in Chappaqua, N.Y. The home helped Hillary Clinton claim residency so she could run for Senate.
By 2009, when Hillary Clinton was preparing to join President Obama's administration as secretary of state, the Clintons' wealth was somewhere between $10 million and $50 million.
Republicans seized on the "dead broke" comment and said it demonstrated that Clinton, the Democratic Party's strongest contender for its 2016 presidential nomination, was out of touch.
"I think she's been out of touch with average people for a long time," said Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, pointing to Clinton's estimated $200,000-per-speech speaking fees and million-dollar book advances. "Whether she was flat broke or not is not the issue. It's tone deaf to average people."
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