Bill Clinton is working Trump country
BRIDGEPORT, Ohio — Bill Clinton chewed gum as he moved through a tiny, tin-ceilinged diner here in the eastern part of the state, casually gliding from one group to the next. He didn’t wear a tie. He posed for photos, lots of them.
“Every day when I get up and the sun’s up I feel pretty good,” Clinton confided to one man who stood to meet him, with a laugh.
At times the former president was more poignant.
“It doesn’t take long to live a life, does it?” he whispered to an elderly woman at the Third Street Deli in Marietta, dripping his signature Arkansas drawl and squeezing her hand.
Clinton took his legendary campaign skills on a tour this week through Mahoning Valley, hustling for small bunches of votes in tiny towns heavily populated with white Ohioans with relatively low levels of education and modest incomes.
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