While Mr Trump got a small but handy boost in the polls from his party’s convention in Cleveland a week ago, the Clinton camp hope that she will get at least as big a leg-up in the wake of her party’s warmly reviewed bash in Philadelphia.
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PHILADELPHIA-Democrat Hillary Clinton took her newly energized campaign to become America’s first woman president on the road on Friday to states in the Rust Belt that might decide the fate of the November 8 election.
Tim Kaine debuted as the Democratic Party’s presidential ticket by kicking off a bus tour through OH and Pennsylvania to highlight a plan to make the biggest U.S.jobs investment since World War II. He trashed Clinton’s speech as “average”, called her a liar and promised to end the migration of Syrian refugees.
“I’m starting to agree with you”, the 70-year-old told supporters chanting “lock her up, lock her up” in Colorado Springs. “Trump is going to be no more Mr”.
Just over 100 days before the election, Americans are being asked to choose between two sharply polarized visions – and between two monumentally unpopular candidates. “But I can’t think of an election that is more important, certainly in my lifetime”.
Ms Clinton is reprising a bus tour her husband, Bill Clinton and his running mate Al Gore, undertook straight after accepting the Democratic nominations at the 1992 party convention. “I take deeply and with great humility the responsibility this campaign imposes on us”. Clinton vowed to focus on areas of the country that are “left out and left behind” and “places hollowed out by plant closures”.
Their target audience: white working-class voters who make up the core of Republican nominee Donald Trump’s base.
“This country, if they choose her, this country will not be in good shape”, Trump told ABC News on Friday.
“She doesn’t know how to win, she’s not a victor”, he said in an excerpt of the interview set to air Sunday.
Ohio Senate Minority Leader Joe Schiavoni, a Boardman Democrat, said people outside will be upset when they get into the school, and be denied access to the gym. “He doesn’t make a thing in America, except bankruptcies”.
But Clinton’s campaign is looking to convince voters that while, yes, Trump would bring change to the country, it is not change anyone wants. She has blasted Trump for making so many of his products overseas, and for alienating women, Hispanics and Muslims.
In a visit earlier on Saturday to Johnstown Wire Technologies in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Clinton told the largely union crowd there that she would create good-paying jobs by investing in infrastructure and reject a pending Asia trade deal that has become a flashpoint in the US presidential campaign.
The bus has the slogan “Stronger Together” written on it and its been painted a bright, royal blue, CBS News reported.
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Fast-forward less than 24 hours, and Clinton and Kaine were scheduled to embark on a bus tour across – you guessed it – the “Rust Belt”, according to information sent by her campaign.
