Hillary Clinton returned to campaign in New Hampshire on Sunday for the first time since 2008, saying the Granite State “taught me so much about grit and determination” during her unsuccessful bid for president.
Appearing at a campaign rally in Nashua with Sen. Jeanne Shaheen and Gov. Maggie Hassan, both seeking re-election this year, Clinton reflected on what New Hampshire has meant to her political career and her husband’s. Bill Clinton famously jump-started his first presidential campaign with a comeback during the New Hampshire primary.
“Starting way back in 1991, you opened your homes and your hearts to us,” Clinton said, according to the Associated Press. “And in 2008, during the darkest days of my campaign, you lifted me up, you gave me my voice back, you taught me so much about grit and determination.”
Hillary Clinton won the New Hampshire primary in 2008 after a devastating third-place finish in Iowa.
Now, Clinton is establishing new roots and re-establishing old networks in the first-in-the-nation primary state, as she weighs whether to run for president again in 2016.
That process began in earnest Sunday as Clinton campaigned for Hassan and Shaheen, who is facing a competitive challenge from Republican Scott Brown, a former senator from Massachusetts.
Clinton and Shaheen are longtime friends, and Shaheen’s husband ran Clinton’s New Hampshire campaign in 2008.
Shaheen has trended slightly ahead of Brown in public polling leading up to Election Day.
