The 42nd president made his first solo campaign appearance for his wife, Hillary Clinton, as he returned to the state he often kindly credits for launching the underdog Arkansas governor to the presidency.
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“It’s hard to remember 40-years ago, what things were like, she hadn’t been elected to anything but everything she touched she made better”, Clinton said.
He has called the ex-president and “abuser” of women, and called Hillary Clinton hypocritical for bringing her husband on the campaign trail as she discusses her stances on women’s rights.
It was a speech given against a backdrop of Donald Trump ratcheting up his attacks on Mrs Clinton, with the GOP front-runner accusing the former secretary of state of “creating” the Islamic State.
In Tuesday’s interview, Clinton stated that Americans will need to work with Muslims to take on Daesh terrorists, and noted that Trump’s controversial remarks on the issue are unhelpful.
Then again, that’s the sort kind of line you can imagine any would-be First Spouse delivering-another sign that Bill Clinton’s role in 2016 might be less dramatic, and more traditional, than anyone expected. “I know more about winning than anyone”. I think it just means he’s casting for straws.
The Clinton campaign declined to comment Monday night.
In January, former president Bill Clinton hit the campaign trail for the first time in support of his wife, and he spoke about her early years as a lawyer, activist, and “change maker”.
Clinton, visibly angry, eventually told the woman: “You are very rude and I’m not ever gonna call on you”.
Bill Clinton cracked some humor by saying he was out of place in today’s current political climate.
Trump was accused of hypocrisy for supporting the Clintons at the time – when his main job was as a property mogul looking to inflate his fortune.
She added, “The rest of the country expects us here in New Hampshire to vet these candidates”.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Welcome back to New Hampshire, someone who needs no introduction, our 42nd president, Bill Clinton.
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“If you have to pick between the two, and Trump’s doing this, it makes him look like this misogynous jerk”, Jamie Steider of Annandale, Virginia, said. “But the people in those countries, they like America a lot better now”. “I’ll let him live in his alternative reality”.
