TRENTON -- Former President Bill Clinton has firmed up his New Jersey plans to campaign for his wife Hillary Clinton's White House bid, and will appear at two colleges, in Mercer and Passaic counties, Friday.

The 42nd President of the United States will host an event at Passaic County Community College's fitness center gymnasium in Paterson on Friday.

Immediately after, Clinton will travel to Ewing Township to attend a rally at the College of New Jersey's Brower Student Center.

The former president's visiting the state the same day that the Clinton's daughter, Chelsea, will campaign for her mother, the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, in Essex and Middlesex counties.

Bill Clinton carried New Jersey in both the 1992 and 1996 general elections, but the state's late date for primary voting means it's usually an afterthought when it comes to the nominating fight.

For that reason, Hillary Clinton held her first public rally in New Jersey since launching her presidential bid on Wednesday, appearing at the Camden County Community College in Blackwood.

Speaking to a crowd of nearly 1,000 supporters, the former U.S. secretary of state decried aa "reckless" and "dangerous" agenda being called for by the presumptive Republican nominee, Donald Trump.

The former U.S. senator from New York currently has 2,240 delegates of the necessary 2,383 to wrest the Democratic nomination for president from her only remaining competitor, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont.

Sanders just won the West Virginia primary, but trails Clinton significantly, with just 1,433 delegates.

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