” ‘Stay on point, Donald, ‘ Stay on point, ‘ ” he teasingly quoted his staff as saying. Hillary Clinton planned to travel to the Detroit area on Friday.
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The revelation has put Democrats on the defensive, at least briefly, and hurt Clinton’s plans to promote a positive message over the campaign’s final week. The doors will open at 8:30 a.m., according to the campaign.
Clinton, a former secretary of state hoping to become the first woman to be elected USA president, was in Arizona on Wednesday evening, addressing one of her largest rallies to date. In a reversal of roles, Clinton has been the subject of headline writers of late, leaving rival Donald Trump to gain vital ground.
“The fate of the republic rests on your shoulders”, he declared in North Carolina, one of a handful of swing states where the race will be decided. She was also appearing in Pittsburgh and Cleveland while running mate Tim Kaine traveled to Florida.
He added, “Florida, which has the largest cache of electoral votes, is a virtual tie and North Carolina is nearly as close”. That’s given Trump an enthusiasm boost in Florida and across Midwestern battlegrounds long considered reliably blue territory.
The campaign and its allies were spending additional money in MI and Colorado, states long considered solidly in Clinton’s column.
Senator Joe Manchin supports Hillary Clinton. The Real Clear Politics average showed Clinton with a 1.7 point lead in Colorado. Weak minority support could complicate her path in other states, too.
Obama spent Wednesday night in Miami.
If black Democratic turnout drops by 15 points nationally, for example, Clinton’s odds of winning drop to about 72 percent, by a projected margin of just 32 Electoral College votes. “That’s not what we need in our country, folks”.
Melania Trump, the Slovenian-born former model who could become America’s first foreign-born first lady in two centuries, also chose Pennsylvania Thursday for her first solo campaign appearance.
A Trump upset victory would likely require diminished turnout among Democrat voters and higher-than-expected turnout among Trump’s key coalition, primarily white voters without a college degree.
Trump victories in the swing states of Florida, Ohio, North Carolina, and Nevada, along with New Hampshire, could provide him with the necessary 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency. He campaigned in three Florida cities Wednesday – Miami, Orlando and Pensacola – and will follow up with a stop in Jacksonville on Thursday. “We are going to win this election, but it’s important that every one of our supporters turns out”. Clinton and her allies, meanwhile, are doing her best to trip up Trump. And Trump is slightly more unpopular there than Clinton.
Even if you assume a vast proportion might not actually vote, which is probably an error in judgment – these are visible people.
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MIAMI/PHOENIX Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump head to North Carolina on Thursday in a final effort to shore up support in the swing state as two polls showed Clinton maintaining a narrow lead nationally just days ahead of the November 8 presidential election. And on the other side of the aisle, a historic number of Republican candidates made a bid for their party’s nomination: Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, John Kasich, Jeb Bush, Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina, Ran.
