"But the main thing is, at a time when we have been driven apart by
the communities of collective resentment, she has never stepped into a
room where she didn’t make something good.”
On the campaign trail with Bill, it's all about Hillary(Reuters)
Former US President Bill Clinton hit the campaign trail on Monday in support of his wife, Hillary Clinton, who seeks the nomination in the Democratic contest, touting her record in public office and dodging discussion of his own.
Speaking to a crowd of supporters in the early-voting state of New Hampshire,
a soft-spoken Bill Clinton made his first stump for his wife in the
2016 election cycle, declining to respond to criticism over infidelities
during his time in the Oval Office, and praising his wife's career both
in and out of politics.
"I think she's proved she knows how to get things done,” he told a group of supporters at a town hall in Exeter.
"Everywhere she went, she made something good happen.”
Monday's
stops were the first of what are expected to be many Clinton will make
for his wife, with just four weeks until the first votes are cast in the
nominating process for the November 2016 election.
His
late-comer introduction to the campaign trail could be a strategically
significant move for the former secretary of state who, despite leading
in many national surveys, still trails Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders in
New Hampshire opinion polls.
But, while Bill
Clinton’s lasting popularity among Democrats makes his support a
sterling endorsement for any candidate, scrutiny of his past
infidelities raised by Republican pack leader Donald Trump have
reintroduced a sore point in his legacy to a new generation of voters
too young to remember the scandal.
In the 1990's,
Clinton, while still in office, admitted to a sexual relationship with a
White House intern, which Trump has said demonstrates a penchant for
sexism by the husband of the woman hoping to be the nation’s first
female president.
Clinton shied away from
addressing the controversy directly during his stump, instead
admonishing "communities of collective resentment" across party aisles,
and in a thinly veiled criticism of Trump, bashed Republicans for
attempting to make a caricature of wife’s career.
"She’s got the proven ability to get the best out of a difficult situation,” he said to a group of volunteers in Dover.
"But
the main thing is, at a time when we have been driven apart by the
communities of collective resentment, she has never stepped into a room
where she didn’t make something good.”
New Hampshire voters will cast their ballots for the primary nominating contest on Feb. 9.
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