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Bill Clinton kicks off tour for wife’s presidential campaign
LISA LERER Former President Bill Clinton speaks during a campaign stop for his wife, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, Monday,
Associated Press Jan. 4, 2016, in Nashua, N.H.
NASHUA, New Hampshire
(AP) — A subdued Bill Clin- (AP Photo/Jim Cole)
ton offered a deeply per-
sonal endorsement of his interview with CNN Mon-
wife’s presidential cam- day. “I mean, he was im-
paign Monday, telling vot- peached, for heaven’s
ers that Hillary Clinton’s sake. He was impeached
plans offer the best chance over this stuff.”
for the U.S. to achieve eco- So far, Bill Clinton has re-
nomic prosperity and a se- mained silence about
cure future. Trump’s slams - following
The event marked the the lead of his wife’s cam-
former president’s debut paign, which believes their
solo appearance for his candidate comes across
wife’s campaign, part of a as more presidential by ris-
broader strategy to deploy ing above what they see
Bill Clinton publicly in the as the Republican’s crass
run-up to early voting next political tactics.
month. He spoke calmly and qui-
Clinton is the overwhelm- etly in New Hampshire on
ing favorite to win the Monday, methodically
Democratic nomination in describing the issues he
the state-by-state primary sees as motivating voters in
contests that begin in Iowa the next election. Clinton
and New Hampshire next warned voters that the next
month. The Republican president could appoint as
field remains crowded and many as three Supreme
unsettled, with several can- Court justices and reverse
didates looking to knock the health care law and
billionaire Donald Trump off environmental programs of
the front-runner position. In the Obama administration.
a wide-ranging address Hillary Clinton, her husband
that took voters through said, offers the best path to
Hillary Clinton’s work as a economic prosperity, deal-
young lawyer in Arkansas, ing with social problems
ways to combat heroin like heroin addiction and
addiction, the political foreign policy that doesn’t
achievements of President undermine the American
Barack Obama and the character.
failings of America’s four- Still, some of Trump’s at-
teenth president, Franklin tacks seem to have struck
Pierce, Bill Clinton argued a nerve. At a campaign
that the Democratic front- event in New Hampshire
runner offers the best plan on Sunday, Katherine Prud-
to restore “broadly shared homme O’Brien heckled
prosperity.” Clinton about her hus-
“I do not believe in my band’s sexual history, ac-
lifetime anybody has run cusing her of enabling him
for this job at a moment to mistreat women.q
of great importance who
was better qualified by
knowledge, experience
and temperament to do
what needs to be done
now,” he told several hun-
dred New Hampshire vot-
ers gathered in a college
auditorium.
His appearance comes
after days of attacks over
his impeachment and de-
cades-old sex scandal by
Republican front-runner
Donald Trump.
“I don’t really care about
Monica Lewinsky other
than I think that Hillary
was an enabler and a
lot of things happened
that were obviously very
seedy,” Trump said in an
