Bill Clinton kicks off campaign tour for his wife in New Hampshire

“Everything she touched, she made better”, he said.

In at times a very personal speech, Mr Clinton recalled how how had met Hillary 45 years ago, when female law students were still a minority.

Bill Clinton entered the campaign fray on Monday with a passionate endorsement of his wife’s suitability to follow in his footsteps to the Oval Office.

Here in New Hampshire, Bill Clinton was his wife’s chief cheerleader, making the case that Hillary Clinton would be the best choice to lead the country.

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The former president has already been on the 2016 trail for his wife, appearing on stage with pop star Katy Perry in late October before a key fundraising dinner in Iowa.

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. “[Hillary] comes to me one day, and she said ‘I found it, I found the human streak in Tom Delay”. As the state’s residents gear up to vote, Trump remains the frontrunner among Republican candidates, while polls project that Clinton is about four points behind her opponent, Bernie Sanders.

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 LOST! Now Bill is at it again.

Trump also tweeted Sunday night that “the worst thing Hillary could do is have her husband campaign for her. Just watch”.

The “arithmetic” line is one the former president also used at the 2012 Democratic National Convention.

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During the course of the interview, her first in 2016, Clinton, 68, avoided directly naming Republican front-runner Donald Trump, who has been personally attacking her for the past few weeks.

“The last person they want to run against is Donald Trump”, he said. “The women I know that are politically active are going to try to ignore it and encourage their candidates to talk about the larger issues”.

He lauded her record as secretary of state and provoked laughter by joking: “I didn’t think she could do that”, in reference to getting China and Russian Federation to sign off on sanctions against Iran.