Hillary Clinton on Sunday galloped across Kentucky, where she tried to win votes before the state’s upcoming primary by declaring that she will tap her husband, former President Bill Clinton, to help fix the economy.
“My husband . . . I’m going to put in charge of revitalizing the economy because you know, he knows how to do it,” Clinton told supporters at an event in northern Kentucky, according to the Washington Post.
The Democratic front-runner was likely hoping to remind voters that, under Bill’s administration, economic growth averaged 4 percent per year.
The hint at what role Bill Clinton might have as the nation’s first male presidential spouse came in the wake of allegations last week that The Clinton Global Initiative made a commitment to give $2 million to a company partly owned by a woman who has been rumored to have been romantically involved with the ex-commander-in-chief.
The declaration of Bill’s money-guru role also comes as Hillary is racing down the stretch for what she hopes to be a momentum-shifting victory over Democratic rival Bernie Sanders in Kentucky.
The former secretary of state kept a busy campaign schedule in the Bluegrass State, holding events in Louisville, Fort Mitchell and Bowling Green, ahead of Tuesday’s Democratic primary there.
She urged voters at one stop to be mindful of heated political rhetoric.
“We ought to respect one another and we ought to show more love and kindness toward one another,” Clinton said at a church in Louisville.
Clinton has a near-insurmountable lead in pledged delegates over Sanders, 2,239 to 1,462 — 144 delegates shy of the number she needs lock up the nomination.
Still, the Vermont senator convincingly won last week’s West Virginia primary and has vowed to keep campaigning all the way to the Democratic National Convention in July.