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GOP debate: Reporters must type 'Stop Hillary' as WiFi password

A majority of attacks by Republican contenders against Democratic candidates have been leveled at Hillary Clinton.

By Fred Lambert
The Republican National Committee on Tuesday used the words "Stop Hillary" as the password for the WiFi journalists must use while covering Tuesday's GOP debate. Photo by Molly Riley/UPI
The Republican National Committee on Tuesday used the words "Stop Hillary" as the password for the WiFi journalists must use while covering Tuesday's GOP debate. Photo by Molly Riley/UPI | License Photo

MILWAUKEE, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- The Republican National Committee has made the words "Stop Hillary" the password for WiFi used by journalists covering the fourth debate between Republican candidates Tuesday night.

The GOP is holding its fourth debate Tuesday in a Milwaukee, Wis., theater.

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Benny Johnson with the Independent Journal posted a photo of the wireless network name and password he found when he arrived at the theater.

He wrote, "Brilliant troll from the @GOP for the debate: Making every reporter type 'StopHillary' for their WiFi."

The RNC responded to Johnson's tweet with their own tweet depicting an emoticon of hands giving applause.

Clinton, considered by many the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, has been a favored target of Republican hopefuls in previous debates.

Though GOP candidates, three debates in, have directed much criticism at each other, RNC chairman Reince Priebus predicted the first debate in August would place more focus against Clinton.

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"Ultimately, the real issue here is Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and the fact that the country's really not in a good place right now," Priebus told NBC News.

Last week, freshly elected Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan echoed those remarks during his first press conference as speaker.

"We don't believe the country is heading in the wrong direction," Ryan told reporters at the RNC headquarters in Washington, D.C. "We think [President Obama] has been leading it in the wrong direction. We think a Hillary Clinton presidency will continue to lead the country in the wrong direction."

One day after the CNBC Republican Debate on Oct. 28, Clinton posted to Twitter a video of herself brushing off her shoulder during the Benghazi Committee a week prior. With the clip was the hashtag: "#GOPdebate."

Tuesday night's debate is sponsored by Fox Business Network and the Wall Street Journal. The undercard debate -- featuring Chris Christie, Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum and Bobby Jindal -- will air at 7 p.m. EST, and the main debate -- featuring Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush, Carly Fiorina, Ted Cruz, John Kasich and Rand Paul -- will air at 9 p.m. EST.

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