Rivals Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump sprinted out of the campaign blocks Monday to begin their two-month dash to the United States presidential election, descending on OH as ground zero of their 2016 battle.
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ABC News’ David Muir asked Clinton on Monday if she would accept Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto’s invitation to visit, as Republican rival Donald Trump did last week.
“I’m ready. I’m more than ready”, she said of the intense, two-month battle ahead as she attempts to become the first female U.S. commander in chief.
Hillary Clinton’s message this Labor Day was that she would bring back jobs if elected, but Trump said: “She can’t”.
On the plane, Trump also told reporters that, “as of this moment”, he planned to attend all three debates, and that only a “natural disaster” could make him change his mind.
“He came out saying one thing and the Mexican president contradicted him nearly immediately”, Clinton, a former USA secretary of state, said in the ABC interview.
Mr Trump also appeared with Democratic Mayor Tom Coyne, of Brook Park, Ohio, who said he supported Mr Trump in this spring’s Republican primary and would vote for him this autumn.
Trump, who attended with running mate Mike Pence, spoke about issues including manufacturing.
FiveThirtyEight bases their forecast on simulating the presidential election 10,000 times, according to their website:”We’ll be updating our forecasts every time new data is available, every day through November 8″.
She said Russian President Vladimir Putin appears “quite satisfied with himself” and said Trump “has generally parroted what is a Putin-Kremlin line”. Obviously, according to the polls, the online polls they did right after the debates. “It’s interesting”, Trump said during a Q&A session on board his plane.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton takes a question from a member of the media on her campaign plane while traveling to Quad Cities International Airport in Moline, Ill., Monday, Sept. 5, 2016.
Trump continues to hit Clinton on emails: Trump on Friday dismissed Clinton’s claim that she did not know what classification markings on her emails signified during her time as secretary of state, saying that she was either intentionally lying or “she’s not an intelligent person”, reports Politico.
At one point, in a sign of the state’s importance, Clinton’s and Trump’s planes sat side-by-side on the tarmac in Cleveland, though the nominees did not cross paths.
“I’ve seen people do so much prep work that when they get out there they can’t speak”, said Trump, who was scheduled to campaign in Youngstown, Ohio later in the day.
Biden joined Kaine in Pittsburgh for a Labor Day event Monday, where they addressed several hundred union workers. Former President Bill Clinton campaigned for his wife in Detroit and later in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Clinton has traveled mostly by private jet during the campaign and has not held a formal news conference with journalists since December 2015 in Iowa.
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The possibility of Russian involvement in cyber intrusions that were revealed in July “raises some grave questions about potential Russian interference with our electoral process”, Mrs Clinton told reporters on her campaign plane as she flew to a rally in IL.
