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Former President Bill Clinton appeared to call Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake “physically attractive” and her and Trump's campaigns “performance art” at an event in Phoenix last night.

The comment came at the beginning of his remarks, right after Rep. Ruben Gallego, who is running against Lake for the Senate seat being vacated by Kyrsten Sinema, introduced him on stage.

“One of the things we have to do is elect the man who just introduced me,” Clinton said. “This is like a beautiful microcosm of the campaign that Kamala Harris is running for president,” she says, comparing the Senate race to the presidential race.

“You have a person who grew up in sometimes challenging circumstances and made something of his life by running against someone who is physically attractive but believes politics is a performance art,” Clinton said, naming Lake – and Trump too – apparently attractive.

Clinton reflected on Trump's inflation argument, arguing that his plan would make inflation worse. “Donald Trump argues quite astutely,” he said. “He just says, 'Look, when I was president, we didn't have inflation.' We've had it for three years now. It sucks. You have to vote for me and throw her out.'”

“The problem is, what he wants to do is going to make it worse,” Clinton said. “He wants to put all these tariffs on things that we can't buy anywhere else, and that's going to cost the average family about $4,000 a year.”

Clinton said some people who plan to vote for Trump can still be persuaded to vote for Democrats by the discourse. “We need to be able to look at each other and talk to people — lots of people who can be persuaded,” he said of restoring civility in a polarized world.

“I'm not talking about the hard core, but on the other hand a lot of people can be convinced,” he continued. “They are good people.” If they were your neighbors and your house was on fire, they would come over immediately and help you put out the fire and get the children to safety. They were convinced that we were somehow a foreign nation to them, and we are not. So put on your game face. Hold out your hand. Ask them to vote for Ruben. Ask him to vote for Kamala,” he said.

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