{"id":121734,"date":"2024-11-03T22:06:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-03T15:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=121734"},"modified":"2024-11-03T22:06:02","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T15:06:02","slug":"bill-clinton-has-hopes-and-fears-on-what-comes-after-2024-for-the-country-the-party-and-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=121734","title":{"rendered":"Bill Clinton has hopes and fears on what comes after 2024 \u2013 for the country, the party and himself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-editable=\"content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-reorderable=\"content\">\n<p>\n    <cite class=\"source__cite\"><br \/>\n      <span class=\"source__location\" data-editable=\"location\">Michigan&#8217;s West Coast<\/span><br \/>\n      <span class=\"source__text\" data-editable=\"source\">CNN<\/span><br \/>\n        \u00a0\u2014\u00a0<br \/>\n    <\/cite>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm30mwppi004h2cpb77x9etli@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Rumbling down the road between small towns in western Michigan, Bill Clinton was considering mortality \u2013 potentially American democracy\u2019s or the Democratic Party\u2019s, but also his own.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm30mwuuk00033b6mwm82x6r8@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The nation\u2019s 42nd president believes Kamala Harris will win and that the economy will \u201cexplode\u201d over the next few years, thanks to decisions that Joe Biden made, which Clinton says people will finally start to feel after an inevitable lag. He calls Harris a problem-solver, goes in deep on how her price gouging plan could bring down the cost of groceries and how the intricacies of her proposal to have the federal government build more housing is an idea he\u2019d never thought of.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm30mwuuk00043b6ml4gv8nei@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            He still throws in Arkansas-spun laugh lines, like Donald Trump \u201cspreads blame like a John Deere spreads manure\u201d or a favorite bit he has about how the Republican nominee would take credit for this unseasonably sunny weather in the final campaign stretch but would blame Biden if it rained.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm30mwuuk00053b6mg33hm3v4@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            But speaking to CNN exclusively on his campaign bus \u2013 his only interview since starting what has become a marathon schedule that still has last-minute stops being added \u2013 Clinton said he also worries about what Trump\u2019s impact on politics means for what comes next, no matter who wins.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm30mwuuk00063b6mpm2lzbly@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cWhat has surprised so many people \u2013 although I\u2019m sure this happened in the \u201830s throughout Europe, when they were considering things with fascism \u2013 a lot of people just can\u2019t believe how many voters in America agree that he doesn\u2019t make sense, agree that he\u2019s advocating things that would be bad, but somehow think that if the experience was good for them back then, it was magically his doing and everything was fine,\u201d Clinton said. \u201cSo, I don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to happen.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm30mwuuk00073b6mixkeyvah@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Clinton campaigned 30 years ago on being a bridge to the 21st century. He knows that viciousness, division and the feeling of being constantly pummeled from every direction by politics were not what America had been expecting on the other side.\n    <\/p>\n<div data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/image\/instances\/cm30mydjt002m3b6m5v81imry@published\" class=\"image image__hide-placeholder\" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-name=\"AP24291768377652.jpg\" data-component-name=\"image\" data-observe-resizes=\"\" data-breakpoints=\"{\" image--eq-extra-small=\"\" data-original-ratio=\"0.6676666666666666\" data-original-height=\"2003\" data-original-width=\"3000\" data-url=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/ap24291768377652.jpg?c=original\" data-editable=\"settings\">\n<div class=\"image__container \" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-breakpoints=\"{\" image--eq-extra-small=\"\">\n       <picture class=\"image__picture\"><source height=\"2003\" width=\"3000\" media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/ap24291768377652.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"2003\" width=\"3000\" media=\"(min-width: 960px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/ap24291768377652.jpg?q=w_1015,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"2003\" width=\"3000\" media=\"(min-width: 480px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/ap24291768377652.jpg?q=w_1160,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"2003\" width=\"3000\" media=\"(max-width: 479px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/ap24291768377652.jpg?q=w_680,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/ap24291768377652.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill\" alt=\"Clinton speaks at a campaign rally in Durham, North Carolina, on October 17, 2024.\" class=\"image__dam-img image__dam-img--loading\" onload=\"this.classList.remove('image__dam-img--loading')\" onerror=\"imageLoadError(this)\" height=\"2003\" width=\"3000\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm30mwuuk00083b6mgxtachxv@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            He was the one who tapped into the White working-class vote back then to break through the political establishment, and then signed trade agreements and banking laws that created the job losses and resentment that has transformed American politics. His wife was the one whose loss put Trump in the White House, in a way that burns him still.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm30mwuuk00093b6meswmb5xg@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Now after spending the past few years celebrating 25th anniversaries of achievements such as the Good Friday agreement, as he\u2019s seen his own time in office bear out, the second youngest elected president ever is talking about securing his grandkids\u2019 future and holding up his big hands to show the joint problems and essential tremor that he says will keep him from hitting a 300-yard drive again.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm30mwuuk000a3b6m12qnu3cw@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Over nearly three weeks straight of 10-hour days \u2013 which means he\u2019s had a much more active schedule than Harris, Trump, Tim Walz, JD Vance, Joe Biden or Barack Obama \u2013 Clinton is adamant in his speeches about his unique perspective as the only person on the planet who\u2019s done the job and personally knows both candidates on the ballot Tuesday.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm30mwuuk000b3b6m725w8haj@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cYou did pretty well when I was president, and I think I\u2019m entitled to my opinion about who would be better,\u201d he often says, his soft Southern accent now with a permanent rasp.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm30mwuuk000c3b6m0d8wcy87@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Standing in a church gym in Muskegon Heights, Michigan, he recounted a bit that he had read a few years ago about Dwight Eisenhower saying he worried how much longer the oldest continuous democracy could survive with all the effort it takes.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm30mwuuk000d3b6md2n26lzx@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cI think we ought to say to President Eisenhower, \u2018We don\u2019t know how long we\u2019re going to make it either, but we\u2019re fixing to lengthen our stay in the land of the free and the home of the brave,\u201d Clinton said.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm30mwuuk000e3b6ma3rdmt4l@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Hours later, relaxed in a chair on a bright blue Harris-Walz bus, he considered what Obama, Biden, Walz and others have meant when they say that America might not survive another four years of Trump.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm30mwuuk000f3b6m5ofhh0a4@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cI think you have to look at what the definition of \u2018survive\u2019 is,\u201d Clinton said. \u201cYou can put me on a breathing tube tonight, but it wouldn\u2019t be surviving like I\u2019m surviving now. 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Clinton\u2019s visit \u201ccements something for me going forward,\u201d 25-year-old Berrien County Commissioner Chokwe Pitchford told a few hundred people in the patio of a microbrew pub in Benton Harbor on a Wednesday afternoon, referring both to boosting local pride and Democrats winning elections there.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm30mwuuk000k3b6moxaf0hu1@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Clinton\u2019s winning 1992 and 1996 electoral maps wouldn\u2019t even make sense in a Democratic fever dream in 2024: He won Arizona and Georgia one time each, but also Missouri, Kentucky and Louisiana in both races. Virginia was the only one of the now reliably blue states out of reach for Clinton.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm30mwuuk000l3b6mo2f6sa84@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Technology and culture have led to a lot of changes in the country. But so did NAFTA, letting China into the World Trade Organization and the other deals that Clinton ushered in, boosting globalization but gutting American jobs and wages in ways he never imagined.\n    <\/p>\n<div data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/image\/instances\/cm30mzocq00313b6mmti0k6f1@published\" class=\"image image__hide-placeholder\" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-name=\"c-GettyImages-2178270816.jpg\" data-component-name=\"image\" data-observe-resizes=\"\" data-breakpoints=\"{\" image--eq-extra-small=\"\" data-original-ratio=\"0.6666666666666666\" data-original-height=\"1600\" data-original-width=\"2400\" data-url=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/c-gettyimages-2178270816.jpg?c=original\" data-editable=\"settings\">\n<div class=\"image__container \" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-breakpoints=\"{\" image--eq-extra-small=\"\">\n       <picture class=\"image__picture\"><source height=\"1600\" width=\"2400\" media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/c-gettyimages-2178270816.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"1600\" width=\"2400\" media=\"(min-width: 960px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/c-gettyimages-2178270816.jpg?q=w_1015,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"1600\" width=\"2400\" media=\"(min-width: 480px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/c-gettyimages-2178270816.jpg?q=w_1160,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"1600\" width=\"2400\" media=\"(max-width: 479px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/c-gettyimages-2178270816.jpg?q=w_680,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/c-gettyimages-2178270816.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill\" alt=\"Former President Bill Clinton speaks in support of the Harris-Walz presidential campaign during the Fort Valley GOTV Community Fish Fry at the Agricultural Technology Conference Center on October 13 in Fort Valley, Georgia.\" class=\"image__dam-img image__dam-img--loading\" onload=\"this.classList.remove('image__dam-img--loading')\" onerror=\"imageLoadError(this)\" height=\"1600\" width=\"2400\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm30mwuuk000m3b6mbbla0v93@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Trade is a sensitive subject for him, but one, he argued when asked \u2013 after a few minutes of initial defensiveness \u2013 that proves his point over what being president is actually about. Imagine if America hadn\u2019t signed on, hadn\u2019t bailed out Mexico when the peso was failing, he argued: Mexico might have collapsed, probably another million undocumented immigrants would have come over the border, the upheavals in imports and exports would have rocked the American economy.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm30mwuuk000n3b6memhncae6@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Then again, Clinton said, he was \u201cgobsmacked\u201d that companies that said they\u2019d pay to help with the transition never did. And he blamed the Republicans who rode an anti-Clinton, anti-NAFTA wave in 1994 for never getting the universal health care and job retraining programs he had envisioned as the other side of the agreement.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm30mwuuk000o3b6mppkcoorg@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cThe government should have seen that we had a public stake in minimizing the inevitable losses,\u201d Clinton said. \u201cThe benefits, no matter how great, are dispersed. The burdens, no matter how light, are concentrated.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm30mwuuk000p3b6mdphssh7o@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            He added, \u201cThe thing you have to give Trump credit for is he saw that was a parade he could get out in front of.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm30mwuuk000q3b6m62vw8zy9@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Contrast that, Clinton said, to Trump\u2019s isolationism and massive tariff proposals, which he said Americans should care about not just out of principle but because of what the reality of a global economy would mean for prices at home as other countries look to make up the costs: \u201cHe just could never get his head around it \u2026 I think he literally thought that you should be able to win all the time and rewrite the books of the world.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm30mwuuk000r3b6m2u9o1en9@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cPeople hire a president,\u201d he said, \u201cto look down the road and around the corner.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"subheader inline-placeholder\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/subheader\/instances\/cm30mxs1d002f3b6m9p2mxne2@published\" data-component-name=\"subheader\" id=\"advice-for-democrats-and-for-harris-if-she-wins\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n        Advice for Democrats, and for Harris if she wins<br \/>\n<\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm30mwuuk000t3b6m8u7bi01c@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            No matter who the president is, Clinton predicted, the economy is about to take off. Either Harris will benefit from work she was involved in \u2013 or Trump will, by virtue of running against what Clinton says is just the hard interim years.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm30mwuuk000u3b6mdme0ynvm@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cWe\u2019re now going to be dealing with the genuine economic dilemma of, how can we keep growing things without inflation and the genuine political dilemma going back at least 20 years, maybe more: The imperative of partisanship is to trump the other side,\u201d Clinton said.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm30mwuuk000v3b6m40e4fe2u@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The former president said he\u2019s heartened to see Harris talking about making compromises to govern, especially if she gets elected and ends up with a Republican Senate.\n    <\/p>\n<div data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/image\/instances\/cm30n06h100333b6mppj7kunf@published\" class=\"image image__hide-placeholder\" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-name=\"GettyImages-2177506952.jpg\" data-component-name=\"image\" data-observe-resizes=\"\" data-breakpoints=\"{\" image--eq-extra-small=\"\" data-original-ratio=\"0.628\" data-original-height=\"1884\" data-original-width=\"3000\" data-url=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-2177506952.jpg?c=original\" data-editable=\"settings\">\n<div class=\"image__container \" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-breakpoints=\"{\" image--eq-extra-small=\"\">\n       <picture class=\"image__picture\"><source height=\"1884\" width=\"3000\" media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-2177506952.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"1884\" width=\"3000\" media=\"(min-width: 960px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-2177506952.jpg?q=w_1015,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"1884\" width=\"3000\" media=\"(min-width: 480px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-2177506952.jpg?q=w_1160,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"1884\" width=\"3000\" media=\"(max-width: 479px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-2177506952.jpg?q=w_680,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-2177506952.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill\" alt=\"Clinton speaks during morning service at a church in Albany, Georgia, on October 13, 2024.\" class=\"image__dam-img image__dam-img--loading\" onload=\"this.classList.remove('image__dam-img--loading')\" onerror=\"imageLoadError(this)\" height=\"1884\" width=\"3000\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm30mwuuk000w3b6mrjmo4k2h@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cIf you\u2019re a Republican, you have to believe in your conservative philosophy enough to do some deals with Democrats that are good for everybody and that leave us better off,\u201d Clinton said, arguing that the GOP could respond to \u201ca lot of legitimate issues at play in people\u2019s heads from all the things Trump\u2019s advertising,\u201d but \u201cif you\u2019re a Democrat, the problem is: Are you betraying your progressive principles every time you make a deal?\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm30mwuuk000x3b6mehjngixn@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Learn from his mistakes on trade and other deals with Republicans, Clinton urged Harris.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm30mwuuk000y3b6msihcqpsg@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cYou need a better strategy than we had to make it OK for us to make principled deals with the Republicans,\u201d he said, shaking his head as he reflected on how he didn\u2019t think to do that himself. \u201cAnd we need to talk about it.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm30mwuuk000z3b6mw9oyij26@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            As for Democrats, \u201cwe can\u2019t go around saying, as I do all the time, that what we have in common is more important than our interesting differences \u2013 which I deeply believe as a matter of biology and I believe it as a matter of psychology and I\u2019m certain it\u2019s true as a matter of economics,\u201d Clinton said, \u201cand at the same time basically try to make mincemeat out of the electorate and only go after this little piece and leave that little piece alone.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm30mwuuk00103b6m1rpmyo0u@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            And while the economic, social and psychological differences are real, Clinton said, some of the voters backing Trump need to be more honest about what\u2019s driving them.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm30mwuuk00113b6my72huide@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cIt\u2019s also true that if you grew up like I did in a White working class family in the South and felt that the only people who were \u2018below\u2019 you, if you will, were Black, and you might have known that the only way to hold on here was not to have too much progress of Black folks and what they\u2019re allowed to get,\u201d he said.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm30mwuuk00133b6msle6j6n0@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            There\u2019s only one living former president missing in this race: George W. Bush. Many people think they know where he stands on Trump, even though he has refused to say.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm30mwuuk00143b6mgsmayl4l@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Clinton, who has his own long history with the Bush family, defended the 43rd president\u2019s choice to stick to his rule of avoiding campaign politics in his post-presidency.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm30mwuuk00153b6mwaavrlsn@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cFirst of all, he\u2019s spoken up, I think, more than he\u2019s gotten credit for, and he takes every opportunity that I\u2019ve seen to talk about how important immigration is and how we can\u2019t survive without it,\u201d Clinton said, leaving hanging in the air the implication of that contrast to Trump\u2019s nativism.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm30mwuuk00163b6m80j5d8tk@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Bush really did want to get out of politics, Clinton said, before dropping in passing that \u201che likes Colin Allred,\u201d who happens to be Bush\u2019s local congressman in Texas and is trying for a potentially Democratic majority-preserving upset Tuesday against Republican Sen. Ted Cruz. Clinton said Bush told him that directly: \u201cOh, yeah. He\u2019ll tell anybody that, that he\u2019s a good guy.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm30mwuuk00173b6m07wb68lm@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Bush left a congratulatory voicemail for Allred, when he first won election as the congressman from his home district in 2018, and they met in person once, but the former president has not gotten involved in the Senate race.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm30mwuuk00183b6mdcb36xsv@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cHe also knows, beginning with our relationship, it\u2019s very different when you\u2019re out of political life, when there is no competition, no consequence,\u201d Clinton said. \u201cAnd I think he believes that since he was a proud Republican all those years, it\u2019s enough for him to make clear what he believes with all this, without giving up the party he\u2019s been with all his life.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm30mwuuk00193b6mx1mgztze@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            When read Clinton\u2019s comments, a person close to Bush told CNN, \u201cPresident Bush has indeed moved on from presidential politics, but he has been working quietly and diligently to keep the Senate in GOP control.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm30pq3t000013b6mivp96p8h@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The person declined to comment on whether that work included efforts on behalf of Cruz.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm30mwuuk001b3b6megskt1zi@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Clinton\u2019s case for Harris is looped through with his own experience: The reason he\u2019s so sure Americans will soon start feeling better about the economy is because that\u2019s what happened in between Democrats\u2019 devastating 1994 midterms after he made huge cuts to the shrink the national debt, and how they felt about the surging economy years later. He said he feels for Biden, complaining at the White House about not getting credit for infrastructure projects like replacing lead pipes and other spending that he says helped save the economy, \u201cbut that happens to all of us.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<div data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/image\/instances\/cm30n0if400353b6m60jew1yw@published\" class=\"image image__hide-placeholder\" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-name=\"02 Camp David Summits 2000\" data-component-name=\"image\" data-observe-resizes=\"\" data-breakpoints=\"{\" image--eq-extra-small=\"\" data-original-ratio=\"0.5625879043600562\" data-original-height=\"1600\" data-original-width=\"2844\" data-url=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/230816161619-02-camp-david-summits-2000.jpg?c=original\" data-editable=\"settings\">\n<div class=\"image__container \" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-breakpoints=\"{\" image--eq-extra-small=\"\">\n       <picture class=\"image__picture\"><source height=\"1600\" width=\"2844\" media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/230816161619-02-camp-david-summits-2000.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"1600\" width=\"2844\" media=\"(min-width: 960px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/230816161619-02-camp-david-summits-2000.jpg?q=w_1015,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"1600\" width=\"2844\" media=\"(min-width: 480px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/230816161619-02-camp-david-summits-2000.jpg?q=w_1160,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"1600\" width=\"2844\" media=\"(max-width: 479px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/230816161619-02-camp-david-summits-2000.jpg?q=w_680,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/230816161619-02-camp-david-summits-2000.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill\" alt=\"US President Bill Clinton, center, speaks during a morning meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, left, and Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat July 25, 2000 at Camp David in Maryland. Clinton announced later in the day that the Middle East peace summit had collapsed because of a deadlock over the status of the disputed city of Jerusalem.\" class=\"image__dam-img image__dam-img--loading\" onload=\"this.classList.remove('image__dam-img--loading')\" onerror=\"imageLoadError(this)\" height=\"1600\" width=\"2844\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm30mwuuk001c3b6mpgymwnjg@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The list goes on \u2013 but nothing is so aching for Clinton as what has always been the regret he couldn\u2019t reconcile: His failure, up until almost the day he left the White House in 2001, to land a permanent peace deal between the Israelis and Palestinians.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm30mwuuk001d3b6m5ela5obb@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Especially since October 7, 2023, people who have spoken with Clinton told CNN he has talked with anger and remorse in private about what could have been and what didn\u2019t have to be. Standing in Michigan, reflecting on Arab American politics in the state sent him off on an extended riff through history and emotional understanding, building up to the missed crowning achievement that might have gotten him the Nobel Peace Prize and almost certainly would have saved many of the lives that have been lost without it.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm30mwuuk001e3b6mr1vkf5go@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cThe only time Yasser Arafat didn\u2019t tell me the truth is when he promised me he was going to accept the peace deal that we had worked out,\u201d he said, starting to tick through the details of the would-be agreement and the history of its approval by the Israeli Cabinet.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm30mwuuk001f3b6mzlrx8isu@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cI can hardly talk about this,\u201d Clinton said, audibly choking up for a moment.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm30mwuuk001g3b6mos5k32zi@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cHow about we stop funding it?\u201d a woman called out.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm30mwuuk001h3b6m54d4bvgm@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            He kept going. There\u2019s one president at a time, he said, but he thinks America needs to restart the bigger peace process.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm30mwuuk001i3b6m2qg8utuk@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cI\u2019m going to do everything I can to convince people that they cannot murder their way out of this. Neither side. They can\u2019t kill their way out. They have to make a new beginning,\u201d he said.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm30mwuuk001j3b6mcwbt7e1z@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The answer, he pleaded, isn\u2019t being so mad at Biden that they turn toward Trump or other candidates that might help the Republican win. Show up for Harris, he told anyone listening, and it\u2019ll be up to the next president to restart the peace process and pick up where he\u2019d been forced to leave off.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm30mwuuk001k3b6mprtlqsqe@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cWe have to find a way to share the future,\u201d he said.\n    <\/p>\n<div data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/image\/instances\/cm30n143100373b6mjn1kckdt@published\" class=\"image image__hide-placeholder\" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-name=\"c-AP24291734604866.jpg\" data-component-name=\"image\" data-observe-resizes=\"\" data-breakpoints=\"{\" image--eq-extra-small=\"\" data-original-ratio=\"0.6679166666666667\" data-original-height=\"1603\" data-original-width=\"2400\" data-url=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/c-ap24291734604866.jpg?c=original\" data-editable=\"settings\">\n<div class=\"image__container \" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-breakpoints=\"{\" image--eq-extra-small=\"\">\n       <picture class=\"image__picture\"><source height=\"1603\" width=\"2400\" media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/c-ap24291734604866.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"1603\" width=\"2400\" media=\"(min-width: 960px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/c-ap24291734604866.jpg?q=w_1015,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"1603\" width=\"2400\" media=\"(min-width: 480px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/c-ap24291734604866.jpg?q=w_1160,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"1603\" width=\"2400\" media=\"(max-width: 479px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/c-ap24291734604866.jpg?q=w_680,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/c-ap24291734604866.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill\" alt=\"Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz appears with Clinton at the campaign rally in Durham, North Carolina, on October 17, 2024.\" class=\"image__dam-img image__dam-img--loading\" onload=\"this.classList.remove('image__dam-img--loading')\" onerror=\"imageLoadError(this)\" height=\"1603\" width=\"2400\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm30mwuuk001m3b6mqz50jycu@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Long before Clinton finished up his Democratic National Convention speech in August by saying, \u201cI have no idea how many or more of these I\u2019ll be able to come to,\u201d he was so far off the prepared text that the teleprompter operator had given up trying to search for a thread and just paused it in the middle of an abandoned paragraph.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm30mwuuk001n3b6mgvv573eh@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The reaction Clinton got in Chicago surprised him. But that reaction was in part about how shocked some people get to see the youthful president they remember now so wrinkled, his hair so white. When he slipped into a McDonald\u2019s in Georgia last month for an old times\u2019 sake stop, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/USATODAY\/status\/1846023396473143298\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the woman behind the counter thought at first that he was Biden<\/a>.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm30mwuuk001o3b6mlizyqyye@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cI freaked some people out. I didn\u2019t mean to. But I realize that I was comfortable living with my own mortality and not being morbid about it, more so than a lot of people,\u201d he said.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm30mwuuk001p3b6mdghs3lt9@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Clinton\u2019s father died before he was born. He\u2019s the first man in four generations of his family to make it this far, and, he said, <em>\u201c<\/em>I can honestly say when I was younger, I did not think I would live to be 78 \u2013 because I didn\u2019t know about all the advances in heart health, all the things I could do with diet. Now I\u2019d love to live to be 90 or 100.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm30mwuuk001q3b6m69yro6qy@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Asked if he is hoping to beat out the presidential record Jimmy Carter is setting, now a month into being 100 himself, Clinton flashed a grin: \u201cIf he heard that whispered in his ear, he\u2019d live to be 150.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm30mwuuk001r3b6miyaxddcb@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The way he knows he\u2019s getting older, Clinton said, is that he\u2019s thinking more about strengthening his foundation and the places left on his bucket list he wants to get to.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm30mwuuk001s3b6mo6ovfl6a@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Another way of measuring it: \u201cI\u2019ve reached the point where I\u2019d rather work than play golf.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm30mwuuk001u3b6ms3xk9ujc@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            As the bus neared Battle Creek, Clinton began a response to a question about how he\u2019d feel when the election is called by talking about the potential impact on the Supreme Court.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm30mwuuk001v3b6mpb23pggt@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            If Trump wins, \u201cI don\u2019t know what I\u2019m going to think, but I think that I will do my best to save my foundation for the work we do, and for my wife and daughter, go back to work,\u201d he said. \u201cWhether they\u2019ll let me do it or not, I don\u2019t know.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm30mwuuk001w3b6mtpela1r2@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            He didn\u2019t linger on the threat he feels behind that \u201clet me.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm30mwuuk001x3b6mrb73ghqr@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            If it\u2019s Harris, he said, he\u2019s ready for more work.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm30mwuuk001y3b6m8lkkg88e@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cMy belief is that you should always help if the president asks you to. 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