Does Bill Clinton secretly want Hillary Clinton to lose? We only ask because the former president has made two major gaffes in the past two days that should be easy fodder to Donald Trump.
First up, in Flint, Mich. on Monday, Bill called Obamacare the “craziest system in the world”:
Bill Clinton calls Obamacare "the craziest thing in the world." https://t.co/DZoQkLCaTS pic.twitter.com/GXlI7dbvrf
— CNN (@CNN) October 4, 2016
For real. From CNN:
Speaking Monday at a Democratic rally in Flint, Michigan, the former president ripped into the Affordable Care Act for flooding the health care insurance market and causing premiums to rise for middle-class Americans who do not qualify for subsidies.
“So you’ve got this crazy system where all of a sudden 25 million more people have health care and then the people who are out there busting it, sometimes 60 hours a week, wind up with their premiums doubled and their coverage cut in half. It’s the craziest thing in the world,” Clinton said.
It gets worse. At an event Tuesday in Athens, Ohio where the former president is beginning a bus tour of the Buckeye state, he took a swipe at Bernie Sanders while responding to a heckler:
Bill Clinton to heckler in Athens, Ohio: "Hillary didn't vote for the '94 crime bill. Sen. Sanders did."
— Phil Elliott (@Philip_Elliott) October 4, 2016
Uh, @BillClinton attacked @BernieSanders in Ohio just now for… pretty much no reason? Topic: 1994 Crime Bill
— Jeff Bechdel (@jeets) October 4, 2016
Apparently the heckler was wearing a Black Lives Matter T-shirt:
https://twitter.com/LoganDobson/status/783334906789232640
The heckler appeared to be wearing a Black Lives Matter shirt and seemed to be upset about the Clinton crime bill adding to jail population. https://t.co/dyZXAPKpSm
— Phil Elliott (@Philip_Elliott) October 4, 2016
At what point does someone at Clinton HQ tell Bill he’s just not very good at campaigning any longer? And check out this sad crowd:
Lots of space left at this Ohio University rally as Bill Clinton takes the stage -> pic.twitter.com/jMBvOd4dZH
— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) October 4, 2016
And some in that crowd are Trump supporters:
Youth for Trump protesters at Bill Clinton's speech at OHIO. pic.twitter.com/DCv3jcAXG5
— Scoutliterary (@Scoutliterary) October 4, 2016
Clinton tried to salvage the gaffe later in the event:
Bill Clinton says Hillary and Bernie Sanders put their college plans together and made a better plan than either had before.
— Phil Elliott (@Philip_Elliott) October 4, 2016
According to reports, Bill is in Ohio ahead of the state’s October 11 voter registration deadline:
President @billclinton just arrived in Athens to kick off his #StrongerTogether bus tour through Eastern Ohio, 1 wk from voter reg deadline pic.twitter.com/9CcT9fH3UT
— Laura Zapata (@LZapataTN) October 4, 2016
.@billclinton speaking at OHIO University pic.twitter.com/d6VfB5gf3p
— Scoutliterary (@Scoutliterary) October 4, 2016
The magic is gone.
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