He joins Barack Obama in his push to get out the Democratic vote for Democrats Harris/Walz and any other Democrat…
Two ex-President’s giving back to the party and the ‘Nation’?
Clinton won’t do rallies…..
His stops will be with samll groups of 100 or less….
In places Trump won and Clinton, a Southerner , did good in , back in the day….
Former President Bill Clinton will hit the trail this weekend to begin what is expected to be a very targeted push across battleground states through Election Day, three sources familiar with his plans told CNN.
The former president will seek to appeal to rural voters, among whom polls have shown Vice President Kamala Harris is performing worse than some of the last few Democratic nominees, particularly among younger Black men. Former President Barack Obama is also hitting the trail, beginning Thursday night in Pittsburgh.
Clinton will start with stops in Georgia on Sunday and Monday, with a bus tour next week in North Carolina expected to follow, pending recovery from the hurricanes.
The emphasis is on counties won by former President Donald Trump. But it’s also on Clinton voters, hoping there are enough left from when he was the last Democratic presidential nominee before Biden to win Georgia in 1992 and that he can reconnect them to a coalition they’ve been steadily dropping out of over the last decade.
Clinton won’t appear at rallies. Going back to a kind of campaigning that he hasn’t done since before he became the “Comeback Kid” in the 1992 New Hampshire primary, Clinton’s schedule is for local fairs and porch rallies, talking to at most a few hundred people at a time.
He will talk about the economy, convinced that this is the issue that the election will come down to for the voters on the fence. He will pick up themes from his Democratic National Convention speech this summer about how Trump is only out for Trump, and how he himself has been out of office for more than 20 years and is still younger than the Republican nominee. He will eat fried foods (maybe even briefly breaking the vegan diet he’s famously kept to since heart surgery)…..
image…Former President Bill Clinton speaks at the DNC on Wednesday, August 21, in Chicago.
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Bill Clinton should watch where he puts those hands.
Reminds me of the comment I make about how, at his age, Phil Collins needs to be careful with his “invisible touch.”
Younger generations view him, alongside Trump, as being one of Epstein’s wingmen. Obama, Hillary Clinton, even John Kerry would be better bets for the campaign trail than him.