Bill Clinton may not have the effect -- positive or negative -- on Hillary Clinton's bid for the White House that conventional wisdom would suggest, a new survey suggests. A majority of Americans, including 73 percent of Democrats and 52 percent of Republicans, said that Bill Clinton does not factor into their opinion of Hillary for president, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released Saturday.
In the poll, which was conducted last week, 12 percent of respondents said they were more likely to vote for Hillary because of her husband. Among Democrats, fewer than half said that the former president should be more prominent in the campaign, and the same number said that his presence would improve her chance of winning.
Trump has said in recent attacks that attacking Bill Clinton for his indiscretions and accusations of sexual misconduct is "fair game," saying that the former president has a "penchant for sexism," NBC News reported. "She's married to an abuser. A woman claimed rape, and all sorts of things. I mean, horrible things," Trump said, according to TPM.
However, a majority of Americans in the poll, including 68 percent of Democrats and 50 percent of Republicans, said that Bill's past sexual indiscretions "made no difference" in the 2016 presidential race.
Last Sunday on CBS' Face The Nation, when asked about Trump's attempts to attack her husband, the former secretary of state warned that it "won't work."
"If he wants to engage in personal attacks from the past, that's his prerogative. So be it," Clinton said, noting that she will continue to focus on issues important to women, such as equal pay and abortion rights, Politico reported. "They can do whatever they want, more power to them. I think it's a dead end, a blind alley for them, but let them go. I'm going to talk about the differences between us because I think that's what Americans care about."
