Bill Clinton will become a regular on the campaign trail. Bill Clinton: GOP candidates 'kind of scary'

In his first solo campaign appearance stumping for his wife, Bill Clinton warned an audience in New Hampshire to take every candidate in the race seriously, remarking that the presidential election is "kind of scary this year."

"Every presidential election, people run. And believe it or not, it's kind of scary this year, but believe it or not, most everybody actually tries to do what they say they're gonna do when they're running," the former president said. "They are telling you what they believe. And, so you gotta take 'em seriously, but you also have to take seriously whether they have any chance of doing what they say they're gonna do or any record of doing it."


The Clinton campaign has declined to directly engage with Republican candidate Donald Trump over his attacks on the Clintons, specifically the former president's past sexual infidelities, which the Manhattan mogul has argued are "fair game" because the Clinton camp has thrown accusations of sexism at him.

Bill Clinton did, however, work in a direct reference to another Republican in the field in championing his wife's ability to work in a bipartisan fashion on foster care with former Texas Rep. Tom DeLay, who himself was a foster parent.

"She got the Republican House leader, Tom DeLay, who was the most — he was the Ted Cruz of the pre-tea party era, and he disliked me, I think, more than anybody else in Congress. So she comes in to see me one day; she said, 'I found it. I found it.' I said, 'What?' She said, 'I've found the human streak in Tom DeLay.'"