WITH the first primary election just under a month away, Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton is releasing her not-so secret weapon, her husband. The Christian Science Monitor reported that deploying the former president had with its own risks.

Bill Clinton was expected to arrive in New Hampshire yesterday to kick off a series of solo appearances while Hillary would make her way across Iowa. It was in New Hampshire more than two decades ago that the former president revived his struggling campaign.

But preceding Mr. Clinton’s first official outings on behalf of his wife are a series of verbal attacks from GOP candidate Donald Trump. In recent weeks, the businessman had ramped up his criticism for the former commander-in-chief, alluding to his decades-old sexual assault allegations and his impeachment.

“I’m the only one that’s willing to talk about his problems,” Mr. Trump told CBS Face the Nation on Sunday. “I mean, what he did and what he has gone through I think is frankly terrible, especially if she wants to play the woman card.”

His attacks came shortly after Ms. Clinton called her husband her “secret weapon” last month. In the coming days, Trump will also be campaigning in New Hampshire leading up to its primary on February 9. As the state’s residents gear up to vote, Trump remains the frontrunner among Republican candidates, while polls project that Clinton is about four points behind her opponent, Bernie Sanders.

If Hillary thinks she can unleash her husband, with his terrible record of women abuse, while playing the women’s card on me, she’s wrong. Thus far, both Clintons have mostly abstained from responding to Trump’s comments, which their campaign considers an impudent political tactic.

But at a campaign event in Derry, N.H., on Sunday, Clinton was heckled by a local GOP lawmaker. State Rep. Katherine Prudhomme O’Brien stood up and began yelling. In a video capturing the town hall event, she confronts her heckler candidly.

“You are very rude, and I’m not ever going to call on you,” Clinton said to Ms. O’brien, whose shouts were inaudible.

“Thank you.”

After the event, O’Brien told reporters she wanted to ask Clinton a question about the women who had accused her husband of sexual assault. As the presidential candidate herself had been campaigning about her sexual assault plan, emphasizing that survivors all deserve to be heard, O’Brien said she foud her stance to be hypocritical.   “She says that rape victims should be believed,” O’Brien said. “I agree with her, that is true, they should be believed and we should assess what they are saying…”

After Trump resurrected the sex scandals that rocked Bill Clinton’s presidency, conservatives had voiced similar sentiments against his wife, aiming to tar her credibility on gender issues and divert her support from women.
But some feminists see this strategy as insincere, as some of Clinton’s most vocal critics on this front were not exactly proponents of gender sexual equity. “Young women who care about battling sexual assault and rape culture are smart enough to know when their issues are being co-opted,” Jessica Valenti, a feminist author, told the Washington Post.