TAMWORTH — Democratic presidential hopeful Kirsten Gillibrand spoke to a standing-room-only crowd at Tamworth Distilling on Saturday afternoon.
Gillibrand, 52, is the junior U.S. senator from New York and is running in a field of about two dozen Democrats.
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