Bill Clinton is no longer the closer
Democrats say the former president is not the campaign surrogate he used to be.
By Annie Karni
09/14/16 07:37 PM EDT
Updated 09/14/16 10:10 PM EDT
Bill Clinton’s chief of staff, Tina Flournoy, was home working Sunday evening when Huma Abedin called with an urgent request: Could the former president drop his upcoming meetings in Washington, and take over for his pneumonia-felled wife on the campaign trail.
The answer was, of course, yes: The former president filled in at three fundraisers in California on Tuesday and at a rally in northern Las Vegas on Wednesday. While his wife rested in Chappaqua, New York, he tried to make her case that the country has “to vote for the only person with a credible economic plan.”
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