Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump scrambled for votes in North Carolina yesterday as the final days of the presidential campaign became a fight for Clinton to hold on to battleground states where she safely led just two weeks ago.
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Polls of battleground states also show the race tightening.
Last Friday, when the director of the FBI, James B. Comey, sent a letter to Congress about a new inquiry into Clinton’s emails, Trump seized on the opportunity to shift the tenor of the campaign and focus on the controversy surrounding her handling of emails when she was secretary of state.
“We don’t want to blow it on November 8”, Trump said during the Jacksonville event, his fourth in Florida in two days. So we’ve got to work our hearts out in the next five days. “Our future depends on it”, he warned at the second rally of the day.
Florida, North Carolina, Nevada and Colorado are all on Mr Trump’s itinerary today while Mrs Clinton is visiting Florida and Pennsylvania. “If you add up all of the people and all the groups of people he has insulted and demeaned it makes way more than half of America”, Clinton added. So much stuff that has nothing to do with your lives.
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The range by which Clinton leads relative to Trump also stands in stark contrast to the 2008 and 2012 elections. “Countless innocent Americans have been killed by illegal aliens”, the real estate mogul said. A Clinton victory in the Sunshine State would all but assure her the presidency. “We ought to respect that”. She needs your help.
Clinton would deliver her final address at a mid-night rally in Raleigh, North Carolina. “Because some of you may be aware there was a time when African-Americans couldn’t vote here in North Carolina”. You had to figure out how many bubbles there were on a bar of soap. I would feel deeply frustrated not because of anything he said about me, but because I would fear for the future of our country.
Republican nominee Donald Trump spent the past 24 hours repeatedly mischaracterizing President Barack Obama’s treatment of a protester, accusing the Commander in Chief of “screaming” at a man who disrupted a speech at a recent campaign rally-even though footage of the event directly contradicts his claim.
About 6 in 10 voters told pollsters that late revelations in the campaign – including news that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had re-opened its probe into Clinton’s emails and a recording of Trump speaking about groping women – had not swayed their decisions.
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After a largely disciplined and on message week, Trump appeared to stray on several occasions in Tampa and stalked into the crowd at one point to bring a baby dressed as a construction worker briefly on stage.
