Clinton distances herself from Obama’s ‘awful’ economy

Published March 24, 2016 4:01am ET



Bill Clinton has been out and about promoting his wife’s candidacy for president. He’s also been promoting comparisons with his own presidency at the expense of the current occupant of the White House.

“If you believe we can all rise together, if you believe we’ve finally come to the point where we can put the awful legacy of the last eight years behind us, and the seven years before that where we were practicing trickle-down economics with no regulation in Washington, which is what caused the crash, then you should vote for her,” he said in a campaign appearance in Spokane, Wash.

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