Bill Clinton tours NC: ‘I’m a white southerner – I know what Make America Great Again means’

ROCKY MOUNT -- Former President Bill Clinton kicked off a two-day campaign bus tour of Eastern North Carolina Tuesday, denouncing Republican Donald Trump and his slogan without once mentioning the billionaire by name.

“I’m a white southerner – I know what ‘Make America Great Again’ means, and all of you of a certain age know exactly what it means,” Clinton told a mostly African-American crowd gathered in a Rocky Mount parking lot. “I didn’t fall off this truck yesterday, I’ve heard this song a long time. It means first, I’ll give you the economy you had 50 years ago, and second, I’ll give you the society you had 50 years ago: I’ll move you up and move somebody else down.”

Clinton – introduced as “America’s next first gentleman” by attorney general and gubernatorial candidate Roy Cooper – promoted Hillary Clinton’s economic and education proposals during the stop, which was followed by rallies in Goldsboro and Greenville.

He’ll continue the visit Wednesday with stops in Pembroke, Wilmington and Fayetteville as Hillary Clinton’s campaign ramps up its schedule of high-profile speakers coming to North Carolina. Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren was scheduled to speak at Meredith College in Raleigh, and former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean will be at UNC-Chapel Hill and N.C. State on Wednesday. Hillary Clinton will be joined by first lady Michelle Obama Thursday for a rally at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem.

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