Hillary Clinton Fights Back Tears In New Hampshire
Speaking to an intimate group of undecided voters this morning at a cafe in Portsmouth, N.H., Sen. Hillary Clinton showed a rare emotional side.
The last question of the Q&A breakfast session came from Maryann Pernold, a 64-year-old undecided Democrat. Pernold said that as a woman “I know it’s hard to get up every day and get ready and get out of the house in the morning.” She asked how Clinton
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“It’s not easy, it’s not easy,” Clinton said shaking her head. Her eyes began to get watery as she finished answering the question, “I couldn’t do it if I didn’t passionately believe it was the right thing to do. This is very personal for me. I have so many ideas for this country and I just don’t want to see us fall backwards. It’s about our country, it’s about our kids’ future,” she said softly crying, her voice breaking.
The group of 15 women sitting around a table at the Cafe Espresso nodded understandingly. Clinton continued, her voice still cracking: “We do it each one of us because we care about our country, but some of us are right and some of us are wrong, some of us are ready and some of us are not, some of us know what we’ll do on day one and some of us don’t,” she said.
Clearly exhausted, Clinton tried to regain her lead after coming in a disappointing third in Iowa, went on to say that she tries to exercise while she’s on the road and eat healthy but pizza is usually the easiest option. “As tired as I am and how hard it is to keep up what I do on the road,” she said in an unusually vulnerable moment. “I wouldn’t do it if I didn’t believe so strongly in who we are as a nation.” Less..
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