Bill Clinton tells Dems to ‘chill out’
SAN JOSE, California (AP) — Allowing the Democratic presidential race to continue several more weeks will not hurt the party’s chances in November, former President Clinton said Sunday, urging those concerned that the opposite will happen to “chill out” and let the balloting run its course.
Bill Clinton dismissed suggestions by supporters of Barack Obama that Hillary Rodham Clinton was damaging the party by staying in the race even though she is behind in delegates and unlikely to overtake the Illinois senator based on the contests to come.
“There is somehow the suggestion that because we are having a vigorous debate about who would be the best president, we are going to weaken this party in the fall,” he said Sunday at the state Democratic Party convention. “Chill out.
“We’re going to win this election if we just chill out and let everybody have their say,” Clinton added.
Obama himself said Saturday that the decision about whether to drop out is for Hillary Clinton to make.
“My attitude is Senator Clinton can run as long as she wants,” he told reporters in Pennsylvania, where he is campaigning for that state’s April 22 primary.
The former president flew in from Pennsylvania to make his pitch at the convention, which attracted a large number of superdelegates, the elected officials and party insiders who will determine whether Hillary Clinton or Obama gets the Democratic presidential nomination.
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