Bill 'will fix' US economy

 17 May, 2016 08:08

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, U.S., May 16, 2016.
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Hillary Clinton has already named one of her top economic advisers should she take the White House - her husband.

The former secretary of state told voters that she would entrust Bill Clinton, America's 42nd president, with "revitalising the economy".

After months of praising his stewardship of the US economy during the 1990s, Hillary told supporters in Kentucky on Sunday Bill would be dispatched to struggling areas as a sort of economic envoy.

"I'm going to put him in charge of revitalising the economy because, you know, he knows how to do it," she said. "And especially in places like coal country and inner cities and other parts that have been really left out."

Aware that lower-income voters in states like Ohio may well decide her electoral fate in November, Clinton has emphasised the more balanced growth she says characterised Bill's time in office.

"When my husband was president, incomes rose for everybody," she said.