Former US president Bill Clinton is to hit the campaign trail today for his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton — his first appearance on the stump for the former first lady’s White House bid this year.
The former president’s visit to New Hampshire in support of his wife, who leads polls for the Democratic nomination, comes with Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump sharpening his attacks on both Clintons.
Bill Clinton is scheduled to hold a rally at a community college in the city of Nashua and another event later today in Exeter.
Trump, who leads the Republican field by a large margin in nationwide polls, has turned recently from verbally attacking his fellow Republican candidates to stepping up his criticism of the Clintons.
Last month, he blasted Bill Clinton’s “terrible record” with women — an apparent allusion to rumored past marital infidelities, including while in the White House.
“If Hillary thinks she can unleash her husband, with his terrible record of women abuse, while playing the women’s card on me, she’s wrong!” Trump tweeted.
Warming to the theme, Trump tweeted on Saturday: “I hope Bill Clinton starts talking about women’s issues so that voters can see what a hypocrite he is and how Hillary abused those women!”
The billionaire businessman has called Bill Clinton’s past reported affairs “fair game” in the campaign.
Accusations of sexual impropriety dating back to his time as governor of Arkansas have dogged Clinton for years.
Republicans in Congress tried but failed in 1998 to remove him from office for alleged perjury and obstruction during an investigation into an alleged White House affair.
New Hampshire is host to the nation’s first presidential primary on Feb. 9.
Voters in the heartland state of Iowa, using the caucus method, are to register their presidential preference on Feb. 1.
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