NORTH LAS VEGAS _ With Hillary Clinton still recuperating from pneumonia, it fell to her husband to rally voters at a community college here Wednesday in the battleground state of Nevada.
"She did it for me a long time," former President Bill Clinton told the crowd. "It's about time I showed up and did it for her."
Clearly chafing at the controversies that have dogged his wife's campaign, Clinton threw barbs at critics of how Hillary's illness was handled.
"It's a crazy time we live in, you know, when people think there's something unusual" about getting sick, he said.
Clinton said the furor over Hillary's private email server has been blown out of proportion as "the biggest problem since World War II," and he accused Republican nominee Donald Trump of choosing to use his charitable foundation for political purposes "and then attack my foundation, which saves millions of lives."
At one point, Clinton urged voters to look past the election-year quarrels.
"Are you going to be a pawn in a game played by people who are just looking for tomorrow's story?" he said.
The controversies "save people the trouble of thinking," he said, and he blamed Trump for appealing to a sense of "road rage" in the electorate. The message, Clinton said, was, " 'Please don't think. Choose anger, not answers. Choose resentment, not responsibility and empowerment. Choose walls and not bridges.'
"We don't need to feed the road rage," he said. "We need to slow the car down."
