President Candidates Kick Off 2016 In New Hampshire, Iowa

Republicans have always been a favorite punching bag for Clinton and she has enjoyed hitting them on climate change, equal pay and the economy.

In her first national television interview of the year following a campaign stop Tuesday in Osage, Iowa, the Democratic presidential front-runner refused to respond to the more pointed barbs from her Republican counterpart, Donald Trump, choosing instead to repeatedly stress a message of unity on issues ranging from gun control to global terrorism.

“We have to be prepared to take them on and to confuse them by telling the truth to the American people about what would happen if that were to occur”, Clinton said to applause in Des Moines on Monday night.

“You are very rude and I’m not going to ever call on you”, Clinton snapped at O’Brien, after repeated shouted interruptions by the New Hampshire state representative.

The policy clearly isn’t across the board but appears to be part of the candidate’s effort to set herself apart from the billionaire, known for his sharp and often personal attacks against her. Her campaign has frequently suggested that point-by-point responses to what Clinton calls Trump’s “bluster” and bullying is beneath her.

Trump was on the offensive ahead of Bill Clinton’s campaign debut, raising concern over the former president’s scandals and the role his wife played.

In New Hampshire, former President Bill Clinton launched his own tour on behalf of his wife, talking both about Hillary Clinton’s campaign promises and his own experience in the White House.

Clinton also kicked off a two-day swing in Iowa, where she was scheduled to attend several organizing events in preparation for the caucuses.

While the 22nd amendment prohibits Bill Clinton and Obama from being elected president again, it does not say anything about prohibiting them from being elected vice president and then, through a vacancy, serving as president again, although this is in dispute. As mystery shrouds the Republican race, the Democratic one hangs on whether Bernie Sanders, an independent socialist senator from Vermont, can turn his months of large, passionate rallies into enough votes to upset the former first lady. “Middle class folks, working people, poor people”. One woman brought her list of payments for her prescription medicine – more than $4,000. Trump was an enthusiastic Clinton supporter when she ran for senate, as well. “And what I hear from people is really about their lives and their future”. It was at that event that I realized just how smart, articulate and knowledgeable she is.

“I don’t fit anymore”, he said.