Trump has also kept a languid pace, favoring large rallies, often in the evening, over several daily campaign stops.
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YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (AP) Presidential rivals Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton competed for the media’s attention more than usual on Monday, holding dueling news conferences aboard their campaign planes.
With Clinton moving from a summer of fundraising back to retail campaigning, she and Trump crossed paths in OH, with their motorcades all but passing each other and the planes of the candidates and their running mates ending up on the tarmac of Cleveland Hopkins International Airport at the same time.
A look at the many topics discussed by both the nominees on their Labor Day jaunts around OH and IL.
Peoples reported from aboard Trump’s private jet over Ohio.
Peña Nieto said he had told Trump that Mexico would not, as Trump routinely promises, pay for a border wall; Trump soon retaliated by saying in an immigration speech in Arizona that Mexico would have to pay for the wall. He said he opposed any path to citizenship for the 11 million immigrants in the country illegally, but did not explicitly rule out a long-term path to legal status if the nation’s immigration system is overhauled.
“I’m going to continue to focus on what we’re doing to create jobs here at home”, Clinton said. According to The Washington Post, Trump waited to make his decision until the moderators for each debate were announced, but apparently Donald approves of NBC’s Lester Holt, CNN’s Anderson Cooper, ABC’s Martha Rabbatz, and Fox News’ Chris Wallace. These House candidates can not clearly articulate why they want the individual who is at the top of their tickets to win the general election other than to claim that the rival would be an even more dismal selection.
“I think the mayor is just one example that’s happening across this country where voters who traditionally haven’t voted Republican or haven’t voted in a very long time seem to be coming out to support this messenger and this message”, Kellyanne Conway, Trump’s campaign manager, told reporters. He later said his comments were meant to be sarcastic. This time though, she came as the democratic nominee, and the headlining speaker.
“I think it’s quite intriguing that this activity has happened around the time Trump became the nominee”, Clinton said, adding that “from early on”, Trump has “allied himself with Putin’s policies”.
Jeff Cohen, an Ithaca College media scholar, said more candidates from across the political spectrum deserve a place on the presidential debate stage as voters are abandoning the major parties in ever-greater numbers.
The Republican Party seconded Trump’s objection, and Republican National Committee chief strategist and communications director Sean Spicer said the scheduling “was a dumb idea and should be revisited”.
“I want us to bring people together the way unions do, the way people in communities do”, Ms. Clinton said.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump put to bed any questions about whether he would participate in all three presidential debates on Monday.
She also questioned Mr. Trump’s business acumen and integrity, saying with his multiple bankruptcies, he has also “stiffed” thousands of workers by not paying them. “When candidates are on the up and up they have no problem disclosing information on all these points”, Mr. Kaine said at the August 30 event in Erie. “There are so many of them I have lost track of them”.
And while it is based in IL, a usually reliable Democratic state in presidential elections, it also draws activists from Iowa, where the contest between Clinton and Trump is fairly close, according to public opinion polls.
SCOTT DETROW, BYLINE: Yeah, so his day today was the type of day that you typically see on Hillary Clinton’s schedule, and that’s, you know, talking to small groups of voters in tightly controlled settings, doing one-on-one campaigning in diners, at the fair. “She doesn’t have a clue”.
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Democratic Senate candidate Tammy Duckworth, an IL congresswoman and veteran who lost both legs in combat, joked as she tried to keep the crowd engaged before Clinton’s arrival. “You need energy, man”. “The day he tweeted out ‘Hillary didn’t come to Mexico, does she have the energy.’ She was here in OH talking to the American legion”.
