Clin­ton cam­paign staff: "We have start­ed the war with phar­ma!!"

Just one Tweet from Hillary Clin­ton drove biotech stocks down sharply last fall, the open­ing round in what would be a sav­age bear mar­ket for the in­dus­try. And her se­nior staffers in the cam­paign were deliri­ous.

Price goug­ing like this in the spe­cial­ty drug mar­ket is out­ra­geous. To­mor­row I'll lay out a plan to take it on. -H https://t.co/9Z0Aw7aI6h

— Hillary Clin­ton (@HillaryClin­ton) Sep­tem­ber 21, 2015

Clin­ton had jabbed Mar­tin Shkre­li hard for his de­ci­sion to jack up the price of Dara­prim by more than 5,000%, and the sharp, swift re­ac­tion on Wall Street to the mes­sage on drug prices was cheered by her se­nior pol­i­cy ad­vis­ers, ac­cord­ing to one of sev­er­al email ex­changes in­clud­ed in Wik­iLeaks hacked John Podes­ta files.

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