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President Obama went after Washington GOP Senate candidate Dino Rossi on Tuesday for having endorsed repealing Wall Street reform.

Obama, during a fundraising appearance on behalf of Sen. Patty Murray (D), made reference to Rossi, who became the first Republican Senate candidate earlier this summer to endorse repealing Democrats' financial regulatory bill.

The president did not mention Rossi by name, referring to him only as Murray's Republican opponent, but said it was strange that a Republican would want to repeal the reform package.

"Don't you think that's strange?" Obama asked. 

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