Her husband, however, could not have been more chill about the situation. “I thought, you know, I really am in my second childhood!” It happens a lot to me. “People get it all the time”, including, he noted, someone at a recent rally President Obama held in Philly on Hillary Clinton’s behalf – an incident caught by cable news networks covering that Obama speech.
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He said: “Most of her strongest supporters are people who have worked for her or have done business with him – they’re for her too”.
When asked by the South African comic if he would “get afraid sometimes when [he sees] the hateful rhetoric” of the campaign, the former President said that he does, and talked about his rural, white working-class upbringing.
The Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), the largest arm of the Clinton Foundation, announced changes it would make if Hillary Clinton became president in November.
He explained that when he ran for office the Democrats and the Republicans had around a 40 percent base with 20 percent “genuinely up for grabs”. By the time the 2000 race came along between Al Gore and President George W. Bush, it was probably down to 10 (%).
Clinton said though he thinks the US has become more tolerant, American society has become more divisive.
And that is because, he said, “We’re getting siloed by the TV we watch and the web sites we scan”. We have one remaining bigotry: We don’t want to be around anybody who disagrees with us.
As the audience laughed, which Bill believed proved his point, he added: “The crowd’s laughing, but they didn’t laugh loud because they know I’m telling the truth”.
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Noah concluded the interview by giving Clinton something he loves: balloons.
