Before Monday, Clinton and the press corps had been traveling the country on separate charter planes, with limited interaction between the Democratic presidential nominee and those who cover her on a daily basis. Trump said after manoeuvring through a crowd of people who shouted his name, against a backdrop of food stands offering fare ranging from chicken on a stick to Italian sausages, fudge and fresh corn.
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And last Friday’s release of the FBI notes taken during the agency’s interview with Clinton for their investigation into her emails have raised more questions.
If a number of focus groups run by liberal advocacy organizations are to be believed, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton may have a hard time winning over young black voters.
Rob Portman of OH is running a campaign that mirrors Clinton’s more than Trump’s – disciplined, well-funded, and heavily centered on data – and appears on track to hold his seat, even if Clinton carries the state in the presidential race. Democrats are also confident that if Clinton wins in some of the most contested state such as New Hampshire, North Carolina and Nevada, she’ll bring along the party’s Senate candidates. “Just shows you how important OH is”.
Clinton arrived in OH aboard a new blue-and-white Boeing 737 campaign plane emblazoned with her slogan, “Stronger Together”. Unwilling to allow Trump to modify his immigration stances, she said his address later that night in Arizona amounted to a “doubling down on his absurd plan to send a deportation force to round up 16 million people”.
Until now, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s running mate Mike Pence has been the only one of the four presidential and vice presidential nominees to have this set-up.
Like Clinton, Trump has largely avoided having the press corps on his plane, but on Monday he invited some journalists aboard. “The voters of the Democratic primary voted overwhelmingly for Hillary Clinton”, Perez said.
Just a week after travelling to Mexico and then returning across the USA border to deliver a hardline immigration speech, he assailed Mrs Clinton for having “no plan” on immigration.
Trump has trailed Clinton both nationally and in the key battleground states since the the end of the party conventions in July but her lead has narrowed in recent days. “It’s a train wreck for immigrants”, Perez said.
Under Clinton, “people can pour across the border and it doesn’t matter who the people are”.
Mrs Clinton shot back by recalling Mr Trump’s meeting with Mexico’s President Enrique Pena Nieto and their clash over Mr Trump’s plan to have Mexico pay for a border wall.
“We’re very much on schedule to do what we need to do to turn out the vote for Mr. Trump”, said Bob Paduchik, Trump’s OH state director and one of the most experienced operatives on the Republican’s staff. Paduchik said Trump’s efforts heading into the fall are focused primarily on rallying “disaffected Democrats and independents”.
Trump visited a Cleveland diner to meet with union members.
“The polls are close so Crooked Hillary is getting out of bed and will campaign tomorrow”, Trump taunted late Sunday on Twitter.
With just three weeks before the first of three presidential debates that are expected to be the most watched moments of the election, Clinton seeks to reassert herself this week.
Former President Bill Clinton is warning organized labor that Donald Trump’s economic policies would cause millions of Americans to lose their jobs. She has an event with her running mate Tim Kaine in Cleveland, and then another in Quad Cities in Iowa.
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Looking up at the plane, she added, “Looks good, doesn’t it?”
