Bill Clinton campaigns for Hillary in New Hampshire
HANOVER, N.H. — Former President Bill Clinton said Monday his wife’s supporters should reach out to Donald Trump fans after Election Day.
Campaigning for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and down-ballot candidates in New Hampshire, the former president told a crowd at Dartmouth College they should remain optimistic about the nation’s future.
“You cannot give this country’s future away to people who think anger is better than answers, that resentment is much better than empowerment, that endless conflict is better than co-operation,” he said.
While Hillary Clinton recently apologized for saying half of Trump’s supporters are “a basket of deplorables,” Bill Clinton said many of them have good reason to feel alienated. But he said their anger will not take them where they want to go. Telling a joke suggesting Trump, the Republican nominee, would drive the nation off a cliff, Clinton said if voters give Hillary the keys, she’ll fit everyone in and drive them to “a new mountaintop.”