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Trump, Clinton take different strategies to shore up votes

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump

PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. >> Donald Trump is promising to take his campaign into traditional Democratic territory as a sign that he’s not giving up on appealing to people outside the Republican Party. Hillary Clinton is focusing her efforts in the campaign’s final days on energizing voters who usually support the Democratic nominee, but may need an extra boost.

To do that, Clinton is pressing her case with music and sports celebrities, a strategy Trump dismissed. “I just have me,” he told supporters in North Carolina on Saturday, “but I have my family.” With him was his wife, Melania, who rarely campaigns with her husband.

A brief scare Saturday night disrupted Trump’s rally in Reno, Nevada, when Secret Service agents suddenly hustled the Republican nominee off the stage. The agency later said that someone near the stage had shouted “Gun!” but that a subsequent apprehension of a man and search revealed no weapon. Trump returned a few minutes later to resume his remarks and declared “We will never be stopped.”

As if to prove that point, Trump scheduled rallies Sunday in Minnesota, which hasn’t supported a Republican nominee since 1972, and Michigan, which hasn’t since 1988. Polls show that unlikely to change this year, but Trump was including them in a single day of campaigning covering five states.

Clinton faced dark skies, intense rain and strong wind in Florida on Saturday before appearing in Pennsylvania with pop singer Katy Perry. The Democratic nominee was preparing to campaign Sunday with basketball superstar Lebron James, having shared the stage Friday night with music diva Beyoncé and hip hop mogul husband Jay Z.

“Tonight, I want to hear you roar,” a smiling Clinton said before introducing Perry for a Saturday night performance in Philadelphia.

Perry, who hugged Clinton while wearing a purple cape bearing the words, “I’m with Madam President,” shouted, “In three days, let’s make history!”

The final-days scramble highlighted sharp differences between the campaigns in a turbulent 2016 campaign season.

Backed by President Barack Obama and her party’s political elite, Clinton spent much of the last year fighting to unify Obama’s coalition of minorities and younger voters, aided at times by Trump’s deep unpopularity among women in both parties.

Trump has courted working-class white voters on the strength of his own celebrity, having scared off many would-be Republican allies during a campaign marred by extraordinary gaffes and self-created crises. Just four weeks ago, a video emerged in which a married Trump admitted to kissing women and grabbing their genitalia without their permission.

Clinton also faced extraordinary challenges of her own in recent days after the FBI confirmed plans to renew its focus on the former secretary of state’s email practices. The development is seen as particularly threatening for Clinton in states like Michigan, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire that don’t offer early voting.

At least 41 million Americans across 48 states have already cast ballots, according to an Associated Press analysis. That’s significantly more votes four days before Election Day than voted early in the 2012.

House Speaker Paul Ryan campaigned Saturday alongside Trump’s running mate, Mike Pence — a rare show of unity, but not with Trump himself.

The speaker encouraged Republicans to “come home” to support Trump in Ryan’s home-state Wisconsin, ignoring for a day his icy relationship with the Republican nominee.

5 responses to “Trump, Clinton take different strategies to shore up votes”

  1. Corruption says:

    Clinton’s are criminals, only delusional people will deny it and attempt to defend them !!!

    • Boots says:

      lol, poor corruption. Everyone knows it is republicans who are hopelessly corrupt. Hell, they can’t even do their job. What a bunch of welfare bums. Time to get rid of all of them. Sad that there are only a few good republicans.

    • MillionMonkeys says:

      Republican leaders have been wasting taxpayers’ money and everyone’s time with never-ending investigations that find NO criminal wrongdoing. All those millions of dollars and resources wasted just for the hope of getting a slight political advantage. They are misleading you.

      Nothing incriminating has ever been found in the emails. Political opponents keep using words like “felon,” “lying,” and “crooked,” yet have never explained what specific criminal act they are pointing at. The FBI declared, and Clinton has admitted, to being extremely careless. That is all. If you happen to know specific FACTS, please post.

      Republican leaders KNOW that the Clinton Foundation is an A-rated charitable organization. They should praise it for being so well run and for doing so much good for people across the globe. When they use false statistics and a few shady emails to paint a false picture, they are LYING to you.

      It’s one thing to vote Trump/GOP for ideological reasons, because you agree with their tax plan or social views. Go ahead and vote on your own for reduced gun control (Clinton isn’t against the 2nd Amendment, just wants a little more control) or for taking away protections for the LGBT.

      Just vote for the candidate and policies you believe in. Don’t build up lies to bolster your decision. Only delusional people vote based on lies.

      • Cricket_Amos says:

        “Clinton isn’t against the 2nd Amendment, just wants a little more control”
        She was in favor of the DC Law which banned handguns, and which was struck down in the Heller case.
        This seems to be a little more than a little more.

        “taking away protections for the LGBT”
        While destroying the protections for everyone else, like women who do now want men in the gym showers.

        And how about murdering little babies on their way out of the womb, healthy babies being born to healthy mothers?
        What about its right to live?

        Moving away from these hot button topics for the moment,
        Here is a nice video from an intelligent woman in Chicago, without all the name calling.

        http://blakpac.com/blog/2016/10/7/black-female-trump-supporter-leaves-news-anchors-speechless

  2. bsdetection says:

    Trump’s final tv ad is blatantly anti-semitic, a fitting end to his campaign of hate and ignorance. He must be worried that his neo-nazi supporters won’t show up to vote. i

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