Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton said Monday that she would work well with Republicans if elected president, including with two GOP candidates in the Senate today.
Clinton would do “whatever it takes to reach out to anybody, anytime, anywhere in pursuit of common ground on issues that I think are important for the country — but I will also stand my ground,” she said in a Monday interview with New Hampshire’s Concord Monitor.
Specifically, the former secretary of state said she worked well in the Senate with Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and fellow presidential candidate Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.
“Now, we’ll go through the political season, and they’ll be cringing when I say I worked well with them. But my co-sponsor on healthcare for the National Guard and reserves was Lindsey Graham,” Clinton said. “And he may not want to be reminded of it, but we worked really hard to get that done.”
Clinton also cited climate change as something she worked well with McCain on “until the political winds changed.”
“And I think that maybe we can get back to trying to find common ground there. So those are just two examples,” she added.
Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee frontrunner, re-launched her campaign Saturday from New York.
