A RELIABLE FUNDRAISER FOR DEMOCRATS

Bill Clinton has a long history of campaigning and raising money in Florida, and particularly in deep-blue Palm Beach County, for Democrats in high-profile races. Some examples:

■ As president in September 1998, Clinton raised money for Democratic gubernatorial nominee Buddy MacKay in Orlando and Miami. Then, five days before the election between MacKay and Republican Jeb Bush, MacKay joined Clinton and Gov. Lawton Chiles on Air Force One, arriving at Palm Beach International Airport for a pair of fundraisers in Palm Beach.

■ In August 2000, as Bill Nelson made his first bid for U.S. Senate, Clinton appeared with him at a pair of fundraisers in Palm Beach that raised $750,000.

■ In 2002, Clinton campaigned with Democratic gubernatorial nominee Bill McBride in Miami-Dade and Broward counties and at Currie Park in West Palm Beach the weekend before the general election.

■ In 2004, Clinton appeared at a Boca Raton synagogue to shore up Jewish support for Democratic presidential nominee

John Kerry against Republican President George W. Bush. ■ In 2006, Clinton visited Miami the weekend before the election on behalf of Democrat Jim Davis’s losing gubernatorial bid and Nelson’s successful re-election campaign against Republican Katherine Harris.

■ In 2008, Clinton appeared with Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama at a rally in Kissimmee six days before the election.

■ In 2010, Clinton joined Democratic gubernatorial nominee

Alex Sink at an October early-voting rally in Miami, then made an election-eve appearance in Orlando with Sink and Senate candidate Kendrick Meek.

■ In 2012, Clinton headlined a September fundraiser in West Palm Beach for Democratic congressional candidates Lois

Frankel and Patrick Murphy. He made several appearances around the state for Obama’s re-election bid, including a fivecity swing the week before the election that featured a stop at Palm Beach State College in Lake Worth.

■ In 2014, Clinton campaigned for Murphy’s re-election in Palm Beach Gardens and for Gwen Graham’s U.S. House bid in Tallahassee. Clinton also campaigned several times with Democratic gubernatorial nominee Charlie Crist, including an election-eve rally in Orlando.

■ As Hillary Clinton sought the presidency in 2016, Bill Clinton made several Florida appearances during the last month of the campaign, including a rally in Belle Glade.