Bill Clinton to stop at Whitehaven High for wife’s campaign

WASHINGTON — Bill Clinton will travel to Memphis today to campaign for his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton.

The Clinton campaign said Wednesday the former president will attend an early voting organizing event at Whitehaven High School, where he will lay out what is at stake in the March 1 primary and urge Tennesseans to vote early now through Feb. 23.

“In January of 2017, a new president will walk into the Oval Office, and President Clinton knows Hillary Clinton is that tireless fighter Americans need to get things done and protect the progress we’ve made,” the campaign said in a statement.

“Hillary Clinton has spent her entire life taking on the toughest fights on behalf of families and children. She will keep American families safe and has a plan to create shared prosperity.”

Early voting for the March 1 presidential cycle began Wednesday in Tennessee.

The Memphis campaign stop comes two days after Hillary Clinton, a former Secretary of State and New York senator, placed a distant second in the New Hampshire primary to her Democratic nominee rival, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Bill Clinton was in Memphis last July for the funeral of judge and civil rights activist D’Army Bailey at Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church. Hillary Clinton last visited the city for a campaign event at LeMoyne-Owen College in November, when she also visited privately with the parents of Darrius Stewart, the 19-year-old unarmed black man killed by a white Memphis police officer following a July traffic stop.