Bill: TX will decide Hillary's fate
Posted: Sunday, February 24, 2008 2:18 PM by Mark Murray
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2008, Clinton
From NBC/NJ's Carrie Dann
ARLINGTON, TX -- Bill Clinton has made no bones about the importance of Texas to the continuation of his wife's campaign. Today, at a get-out-the-vote rally in this Dallas suburb, the former president made it even more clear, saying that "her fate should be decided in Texas."
Clinton cited his wife's early political career when he told voters gathered at a blustery Arlington park this morning that it is "altogether appropriate" that the Lone Star State is such a crucial battleground for his wife, who launched a voter registration project here as a young woman. In the state, he said, will lie "her fate in this long and difficult nomination battle, where she has stood up to the most amazing kinds of challenges, where the pundits have danced on her grave repeatedly and she keeps coming back."
"The people who need a president know she'd be the best," he said, adding again that "is altogether appropriate that her fate should be decided in Texas."
Clinton also predicted that wins here and in Ohio would lead to a "handsome victory" in Pennsylvania in April. "Then I think she will become the favorite again and go on and win this thing."
The former president also mentioned -- for the first time -- the death of a Dallas police officer who was killed while escorting his wife's motorcade on Friday. Noting the loss and asking attendees to keep the fallen officer's family in their prayers, he mentioned "That also happened to me when I was president."