A look at whether Bill Clinton is hurting Hillary Clinton’s campaign for presidency.
One of Donald Trump's most recent Instagram posts, featuring the voices of two women who accused of former President Bill Clinton years ago of sexual assault, makes it very clear that in Trumps quest to take down Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, he considers her husband fair game.
It all started when Hillary Clinton said Trump had a "penchant for sexism."
In a recent television interview, Trump pointed out that it was Hillary Clinton who was married to “an abuser” who had done "horrible things" – even while President from the oval office.
New Hampshire State Representative and Trump supporter Al Baldasaro said, "What Trump is bringing out is what was pushed under the rug years ago and Hillary – the way she treated these women – was a disgrace."
Hillary Clinton has backed off any further charges of sexism, but it has some wondering what role if any Bill Clinton should play in the campaign – if he is an asset or a liability.
New Hampshire voters we spoke with had mixed reactions. Some said Bill Clinton was an asset because he was President during one of the greatest booms in the US economy in recent decades. Some said the scandals of his administration made him a liability. Still others said he was both an asset and a liability.
Trump has also raised issues relating to the Whitewater real estate controversy during the early years of the Clinton administration and even the 1993 suicide of former White House Aide Vincent Foster which continues to be the focus of internet conspiracy theories.
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University of New Hampshire Professor Dante Scala said, "I think anyone who recognizes those scandals from the 90s and is influenced by them, probably wasn't going to vote for Hillary Clinton anyway."
Scala says voters are more concerned about "what have you done for me lately" then resurrecting the 1990s. He says millennial's who basically were a couple of years old when Bill Clinton was president are going to shrug it off.
Hillary Clinton has indicated she plans to put her husband in charge of revitalizing the economy, but Scala says he wouldn't advise her to promote him as a twofer – but he does think Bill Clinton is more of a positive for her than a negative.
