The clock is winding down on the the 2016 presidential campaign with Hillary Clinton and Donald trump barnstorming key battleground states today. Clinton will be joined by her husband–former President Bill Clinton, along with President Obama and the first lady at a rally this evening in Philadelphia. She will also travel to Pittsburgh; Grand Rapids, Michigan and Raleigh, North Carolina. Donald Trump will be making the rounds in Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire today.
On the trail in New Hampshire with Hillary Clinton over the weekend, Khizr Khan, the Gold Star father who gave the rousing, emotional speech at the Democratic National Convention over the summer.
Khan had a pointed message for Clinton’s GOP opponent. Running down a list of the different groups of people that Donald Trump has offended of over the course to the bitter campaign, Khan said, “Thankfully, Mr. Trump this isn’t your America.”
Khizr Khan: “Thankfully, Mr. Trump, this isn’t your America” https://t.co/c7leuCE9uR https://t.co/6i1c2xwsgg
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) November 7, 2016
On another note, the Clinton camp saw a late surge in minority voting in Florida in the final days of early voting over the weekend, where Latino turnout is said to be up by 100-percent; and, a Clinton campaign staffer in Washington tweeted over the weekend, that the early African-American vote in Florida had surpassed that cast for Barack Obama in 2012. The president campaigned in Florida for Clinton over the weekend, telling supporters, “If we win Florida, it’s a wrap.”
