Clinton makes bid for Arizona, Trump tries to keep focus
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
TEMPE, Ariz. >> Hillary Clinton reveled in reliably red Arizona, seeking to pluck a Republican state away from Donald Trump in the closing days of the caustic race for the White House. Trump, meanwhile, campaigned with rare discipline as he tries to close his gap with Clinton before next week’s election.
“‘Stay on point, Donald, stay on point,’” Trump, campaigning Wednesday in Florida, teasingly quoted his staff as saying. “No sidetracks, Donald. Nice and easy. Nice and easy.’”
Trump can’t win the election without carrying Florida, underscoring how narrow his path to the White House is. Despite tightening polls, Clinton still has more options, which was underscored by her decision to make a late stop in Arizona, which has voted for a Republican only once since 1952.
“This state is in play for the first time in years,” Clinton exclaimed during a nighttime rally on the campus of Arizona State University. She was greeted by a boisterous crowd of 15,000, one of her largest of the campaign.
Clinton, who grew up in the Chicago suburbs, was buoyed, as well, by the Cubs dramatic victory over the Cleveland Indians in the clinching game of the World Series, giving the city its first Cubs championship since 1908. Clinton watched a portion of the game on an aides electronic device after concluding her appearance in Tempe, Ariz., and then helped hold aloft a banner with “W” on its face.
Clinton’s campaign has been eyeing Arizona for weeks, given Trump’s unpopularity with Hispanic voters. As part of her pitch to voters in the state, Clinton painted a grim view of life for Hispanics under a Trump administration. She also waded into a local sheriff’s race getting national attention, backing Democrat Paul Penzone in the race for Maricopa County sheriff, a post held by immigration hardliner Joe Arpaio.
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“I think it’s time you had a new sheriff in town, don’t you?” she said.
And in a nod to Republicans, she called out Trump for his criticism in the GOP primary of Carly Fiorina, the only woman to seek her party’s nomination. Clinton called Fiorina “a distinguished woman with a tremendous record of accomplishment.”
There was late action Wednesday in Michigan, too, as well as in North Carolina, where President Barack Obama tried to energize black support for Clinton.
Former President Bill Clinton was making an unannounced appearance in Detroit Wednesday night to meet privately with black ministers, the city’s mayor and other local leaders. Clinton planned to travel to the Detroit area as well on Friday.
A pro-Clinton super PAC was spending more than $1 million on Michigan airwaves along with at least $1 million more in Colorado, another state where Clinton has enjoyed a significant polling advantage for much of the fall.
Early voting numbers in some states suggest that her challenge stems, at least in part, from underwhelming support from African-American voters. Weak minority support could complicate her path in other states, too, including North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Michigan.
Early voting in North Carolina shows a 5 percentage point drop in ballots from black voters from 2012.
Obama, the nation’s first black president, offered an urgent message to North Carolina voters on Wednesday: “The fate of the Republic rests on your shoulders.”
He also criticized Trump’s history of sexist comments and his initial reluctance to disavow white supremacists. They continue to rally behind the Republican nominee, though he rejects that support.
“If you accept the support of Klan sympathizers,” Obama said, “then you’ll tolerate that support when you’re in office.”
At the same time, Clinton allies are speaking directly to black voters in a new advertising campaign running in Ohio, North Carolina and Florida. The ad from the pro-Clinton Priorities USA shows white Trump supporters screaming at and pushing black protesters, along with Obama warning that voters would lose “everything” if Trump wins.
As the final-days scramble for votes intensifies, Florida remains perhaps the nation’s most critical swing state.
The Trump campaign knows there is no realistic path to the White House without Florida, where polls give Clinton a narrow lead. The New York businessman campaigned in three Florida cities Wednesday — Miami, Orlando and Pensacola — and will follow up with a stop in Jacksonville on Thursday.
“We don’t want to blow this,” he told rowdy supporters in Miami. “We gotta win. We gotta win big.”
While Trump has devoted perhaps his most valuable resource — his time — to Florida, Clinton has built a powerful ground game, backed by a dominant media presence, that dwarfs her opponent’s. The Democratic nominee has more than doubled Trump’s investment in Florida television ads. Overall, the state has been deluged with $125 million in general election advertising — by far the most of any state.
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StarAdvertiser, where’s the new news on the FBI leak about the Clinton Foundation? Biased reporting from our largest Hawaii Newsprint? Banking to keep your Democratic readership, well, you just lost my subscription! Read and Weap SA! lol
What specific leak is this? Can you be specific and supply something other than far right propaganda from Fox? Or Rush?
“””Why Hillary Clinton Is Such An Effective, Perpetual Liar”””
“”Why is Hillary Clinton likely to be our next president, rather than the next inmate at FCI Aliceville? A big part of the answer involves a corrupt, compromised, politicized federal government that protects powerful lawbreakers like Hillary from being imprisoned or even prosecuted. If you or I had committed even one-tenth of the crimes Clinton committed in her tenure as secretary of State alone, we’d be watching the sun rise through a set of bars for the next few decades””
https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/9f3c32fc-1d81-34c9-b6cc-e18bfc2ff33b/ss_why-hillary-clinton-is-such.html
It’s ironic that you start out with the claim that clinton is a liar. Politifact just released the results of their latest fact checks. So far, 297 claims made by trump and 190 claims made by clinton were checked. 10% of clinton’s claims were found to be false and 2.6% were “pants on fire” false. Not surprisingly, 34% of trump’s claims were false and 17.2% were “pants on fire” false. The raw numbers are even more telling since trump made many more claims. 20 of clinton’s were false and 5 were “pants on fire” false, while more than 100 of trump’s were false and more than 50 were of the “pants on fire” variety. While all politicians tell some lies, sometimes just through poor research, it’s clear that trump is by far the more truth-challenged.
There is no news because you made up the leak. Can you ever write truthfully?
Both of you have proved my point of the SA bias. hahahahahahahahahaha
It’s remarkable, but not surprising, that you are so easily amused. hahaha
You think the fact that you made up something out of thin air – and it is subsequently not reported on, because it never happened – proves your case? I see ….
Did you notice the crickets, birds and other critters have gone silent ?
Because the margin has lessened, does not mean that any of the crucial states have changed. HRC is still going to take Trump to the outhouse, think about 340 in the electoral college.
IRT Ike, you must have added all the toss-up States, even the Trump leading toss-up. The electoral map shows Hillary 216, Trump 153, and Toss-up 169.
IRT Klastri, hey, we do agree on this issue. We do not know what is in those 640,000 email messages, or even the recorded voice message. At this time, it’s all speculation. But, I believe that if Ms Hillary cannot stop this Trump/Pence momentum and the Clinton/Kaine loss in fund raising and support by end tomorrow, Friday, this Presidential election will be extremely exciting. The momentum could for certain provide us President Trump. We are all even on the electoral college vote. Best of luck to you and your choice of the United States President.
Mrs. Clinton is going to win. Mr. Trump has no possible path to winning 270 electoral votes.
Big deal good riddance. Whine,whine,whine.
Hillary is getting hysterical on one of her speaking clips she lost it, she yelled and blamed trump and his supporters for everything and yelled at her people at the rally to go out and vote for her, she lost it, the e-mails are starting to take effect she never yelled like that in any of her campaign speeches, the pressure is mounting on her because trump is still hanging around and the e-mail’s are killing her, she is really losing it.
None of this is true, of course. But the truth doesn’t seem to be particularly important to you.
“None of this is true” you say but that’s wishful thinking as you have no way of knowing. I’ll be definitely watching for your post when HRC is indicted as the truth doesn’t seem to be particularly important to you. My concern has always been the pay-for-play scheme, not the classified emails, so I’m particularly pleased that the FBI is finally closing in.
The FBI isn’t closing in on anything, because there isn’t anything there.
You have been predicting an indictment for many months. Maybe your crystal ball isn’t working so well?
Did you notice the crickets, birds and other critters have gone silent ?
IRT Klastri, as we all now know, the FBI investigators are independents and love their Country. With the Hawaii born President Obama trampling all over them from and the Clinton’s taking advantage of them, the FBI agents are supporting Mr. Trump and some of the agents are leaking information on what they know. Now, the problem is with Ms Hillary supporters becoming very concerned about what the FBI do have and when the truth will be made available to all of us. As posted earlier, the Ms Hillary campaign has till the end of tomorrow to change the Trump/Pence momentum towards the Presidency.
What momentum? An anteater has more momentum. Can’t wait till Wednesday when all you Chumpsters will be silenced for good.
IRT Keaukaha, no need wait to Wednesday. If Ms Hillary no can stop Mr. Trump by midnight tomorrow, all pau. Ms Hillary now scared about the tsunami.
Read and weep. back into your cracks and crevices as one of your Pied pipers is soon to be silenced! hahahahahaha
the fbi, FBI, said there is no evidence of trump collaborating with the russians, yet one of todays headlines in this paper tries to dig up one lie of trumps coziness with the russians.
what” the sa got their own investigators smarter that the fbi?
as wy hod!!
By voting for Clinton the voters have discovered that they can vote themselves generous
gifts from the public treasury. Instead of thinking what is best for all and the country the majority is voting for the candidate who promises the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that the socialist liberals are being elected in the future with the result of ruin to the finances of and the country.
The thing I’m looking forward to most on November 9th, after Mrs. Clinton wins the election, will be reading how you explain Mr. Trump’s loss. Your comments appear to be English translated into Korean and then back into English. It takes a while to figure it out, but November 9th will be entertaining!
Have you noticed that suddenly you are all alone?
He’s doing quite well without any assistance. How about a deal, Trump wins, we go away never to comment again, Hillary wins, you go away?
Really….??! Look for HRC to take about 340 of the electoral college.
klastri, you are not as humorless as I thought!
Wikileaks…drip…drip…drip….hiLIARy is getting unglued…just look at her eyes rotating in opposite directions..totally unfit..crooked…rotten…criminal…mafia…worst person to run for the office.
Wikileaks doing the journalistic job of exposing the TRUTH…while the MSM doing hiLIARy’s campaigning.
Sad state of affairs…sick actually.
Note that Hawaii’s version of the biased media, the SA, has not printed any article that updates the FBI’s investigation. Shameful. I’m not sure what they’re worried about as this State only elects Democrats.
If you’re waiting for anything that reflects negatively on Waldo you have a long wait. The word has come down from the mountaintop to the SA and the SA staff to prop up Waldo. Just as they have been doing for Barry Hussein’s 8 years. After the election the SA is going to be left with a huge credibility gap whoever wins.
When voting one should always remember the following.
The difference between Republicans and Democrats this;
The Republican sees a poor and or unfortunate person and says, “this is my money, get away you can’t have any”.
The Democrat sees the same person and says, “look at that poor person, they don’t have any money, lets give them some of yours.”
Vote Libertarian, use your money for good works as YOU see fit.
Don’t look now but there’s a revolution going on over at he FBI. Rank and file agents who know right from wrong have seen their agency’s image tarnished by Comey’s antics back in July. Bowing to pressure from Barry Hussein’s DoJ will turn out to be Comey’s biggest regret. The daily release of Waldo’s many illegal and unethical activities is crippling her in the polls. The media has yet to turn on her but when they do it’s all over for her and Bill. Karmic Justice has finally caught up with the Clinton Crime Family. Her supporters still have time to swallow their pride while there are still seats in the lifeboats.
Same bet I am trying to make with Sarge. Trump wins, I go away, no more posting here. Hillary wins, you go away…that goes for Keoni, or Kuriowaj, Ahipoke, Allaha…takers?
Don’t waste your time. They are as relevant as a mosquito on an elephants as-.
Thanks but no thanks. Regardless of the outcome I intend to continue pointing out the negative effect democrat policies have on those least able to shield them selves from them.