There’s a drab office in the N.H statehouse that for every four years amounts to a pilgrimage site for would-be presidents. We’ll take you inside that office during a traffic jam of 2020 candidates.

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Stranglehold is an investigation into the power and people behind the New Hampshire Primary, and a political story unlike any you've heard before.

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