Clinton: I’d put Bill ‘in charge of revitalizing the economy’
Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton is beginning to hint at what role her husband, former President Bill Clinton, could have in her administration if elected president.
At a campaign stop in Fort Mitchell, Ky., Clinton said her husband would be “in charge of revitalizing the economy.”
Clinton gets specific on the job Bill would have in her WH: “My husband, who I’m going to put in charge of revitalizing the economy…”
— Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) May 15, 2016
Clinton often boasts about her husbands economic record on the campaign trail, leaning heavily on his record of raising wages and creating jobs.
{mosads}”The economy does better when you have a Democrat in the White House,” Clinton said at the Oct. 13 debate.
Clinton said something similar at a campaign event in early May, saying she would bring him out of retirement to create jobs.
“He’s got more ideas a minute than anybody I know,” Clinton said. “Gotta put people back to work and make it happen. So we’re going to give it all we’ve got, absolute full-in 100 percent effort, because I worry we won’t recognize our country if we don’t do this.”
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