APPLETON, WI (WTAQ) – Stumping in Wisconsin for his wife Hillary Clinton, former President Bill Clinton spoke to an overflow crowd at Appleton’s Lawrence University Friday.
“How do we all rise together?” Clinton asked several hundred people inside Lawrence’s Warch Campus Center. “I think you should vote for the person with the best ideas, the most relevant experience in a troubled world who’s the best change-maker I’ve ever known. I hope you vote for Hillary on Tuesday.”
Bill Clinton said that his wife has a plan to help people reduce their college debt, create green energy jobs and work together with other countries to battle terrorism.
“If every student in America could refinance their college debt, tomorrow 25 million people in this country would save an average of $2,000,” Clinton explained. “That’s her proposal, it’s a good idea.”
Clinton also referenced the Flint, Michigan water crisis and laid out the former Secretary of State’s plan to improve the nation’s infrastructure by replacing outdated pipes which would add jobs. He also laid out Mrs. Clinton’s plan to ramp up manufacturing, something he argued helped her win Ohio.
“High-end manufacturing can be done here. Why? Because every year, labor is a smaller part of costs,” suggests Clinton. “Materials, transportation and energy are a bigger part. If we cut the energy costs and eliminate transportation, we’re the biggest market in the world, we can make anything here and we should do that.”
Mr. Clinton was introduced by Minnesota U.S. Senator Al Franken, a family friend for the past 20 years. Also speaking at the event was Wisconsin State Rep. Amanda Stuck (D-Appleton), who said she got interested in politics after her parents took her to see then-President Bill Clinton when she was 10.
In the latest Marquette University Law School poll, Hillary Clinton trails Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders by 4 points. A Fox Business Network poll out Friday shows Sanders with a 6 point advantage.
