Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine appeared together in a high school gym in Squirrel Hill, the heart of Democratic liberalism in Western Pennsylvania. And they performed like a home team trying to add to a double-digit lead in the fourth quarter.
“When your children and your grandchildren ask what you did in 2016, when everything was on the line, I hope you'll say you voted for a better America,” Ms. Clinton said, to thunderous applause from a capacity crowd of 1,800 at Allderdice High School. An overflow crowd of 1,250 people were gathered in an auditorium nearby.
Both she and Mr. Kaine touted what they said was mounting excitement for their bid: “This energy must be a Pittsburgh thing,” said Mr. Kaine, who'd previously appeared with Ms. Clinton here after the Democratic National Convention. And Ms. Clinton sought to impress on voters the stakes for the election.
“Whatever issue you care about, it's going to be on the ballot, she said. “It may not be listed, but it’s on the ballot.
But with polls showing Ms. Clinton pulling away from Mr. Trump in Pennsylvania and many other states, she also repeatedly extended an olive branch to voters still considering Mr. Trump.
You probably know people who are thinking about voting for Donald Trump,” she said. “I want you to tell them that I understand that they need a president who cares about them ... and I want to be their president.
As the polls for the campaign remain stronger in the state, Clinton continued to focus heavily on rallying support for Democratic Senate candidate Katie McGinty, while aiming to tie her Republican opponent, incumbent Sen. Pat Toomey, to Donald Trump.
Clinton ran through Trump's controversial statements and asked: How much does he have to hear or to see? If he doesn't have the courage to stand up against Donald Trump after all of this, then how will he stand up to special interests and powerful forces trying to have their way in Washington?
“Whether you vote for name or against me, I believe we can disagree without being disagreeable,” she added later.
Still, Ms. Clinton didn’t shy from attacking Mr. Trump himself, asserting that at last week’s third and final presidential debate, Mr. Trump did something that no other presidential nominee has ever done in either party. He refused to say he would respect the results of this election.
Make no mistake about this, my friends: he is threatening our democracy, she added. She also responded to Mr. Trump’s debate assertion that if he were in president, she'd be in jail — a gibe that dovetailed with the chants of “lock her up” that are common at Trump rallies.
Every time Donald Trump says he wants to jail his opponent, meaning me, I think, ‘You know we don't do that in America.’
In another gesture that suggests how the Clinton campaign is trying to extend the map, Ms. Clinton took time to flag Pennsylvania’s Senate race, urging voters that Democrat Katie McGinty “is exactly the kind of partner we need in the Senate. But more importantly she’s the kind of senator that Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania need.”
She had harsher words for Republican incumbent Pat Toomey, who has neither endorsed nor rejected Mr. Trump’s candidacy. After reciting a litany of Mr. Trump’s statements about women and his questioning of President Barack Obama’s birthplace, she asked, How much more does Pat Toomey need to hear? If he doesn't have the courage to stand up to Donald Trump after all this, then can you be sure he’ll stand up for you when it counts.
A spokesman for the Toomey campaign fired back that Ms. Clinton's remarks were “just further proof that hyper-partisan, ethically challenged Katie McGinty will be a rubber stamp for everything Hillary Clinton wants to do in Washington. Pat Toomey has been, and will continue to be be, an independent leader in the Senate.”
Mr. Kaine also took some shots at Mr. Trump in his own warm-up speech.
Donald Trump had been talking a lot about stamina, but boy, at the end of the debates, he really looked like he was on the ropes,” he said. As for Mr. Trump's claims that the election was rigged, “He's gotten to the end of the campaign, and he's insulted every possible group [so why not] insult the pillars of American democracy?
Clinton also told her crowd she was tired of Trump supporters denigrating America."
Come on, give me a break, she said. This country has created more economic opportunity for anyone in history of the world. We just have to get it spun up again.
She alluded to the recently released hacked emails making headlines and Trump questioning their ultimate origin at the debate, asking, "Why would he believe the Russians instead of our own intelligence sources?"
After an event earlier in the day in Pittsburgh, this was Clinton and Kaine's second rally together since Labor Day.
The candidates stood under the shadow of downtown Philadelphia, in front of a crowd of 7,750 people present according to the U.S. Secret Service, and a gigantic blue light-up Stronger Together sign.
Tim Kaine returned to mocking Trump and imitating his voice, referring to the Republican nominee's claims about a rigged election as an insult to the central pillars of Democratic traditions.
That poor guy, it's so hard," Kaine teased Trump. "It's so hard to be Donald Trump and have everything rigged against you," mentioning Trump's complaints about The Apprentice and The Emmys, making fun of him by saying, "everything rigged against Donald Trump.
Kaine also yet again brought up the Republican presidential nominee's previous comments claiming that Clinton doesn't look presidential, bluntly telling the crowd, I think she looks damn presidential.
When the Virginia senator mentioned the fact that he's never lost an election, he called himself a lucky rabbit's foot, telling Clinton that they are going to win.
Even though they were campaigning in Pennsylvania, he also highlighted the campaign's expansion into traditionally red states, claiming they are "seeing support surging in places you wouldn't expect it . like Arizona and Utah and Georgia.
While campaigning with Clinton across Pennsylvania on Saturday, Kaine was making an extra point to focus on the historic nature of Clinton's candidacy and potential win, adding that on election day, the public could "in an instant change the way little girls and little boys look at their future.
“When your children and your grandchildren ask what you did in 2016, when everything was on the line, I hope you'll say you voted for a better America,” Ms. Clinton said, to thunderous applause from a capacity crowd of 1,800 at Allderdice High School. An overflow crowd of 1,250 people were gathered in an auditorium nearby.
Both she and Mr. Kaine touted what they said was mounting excitement for their bid: “This energy must be a Pittsburgh thing,” said Mr. Kaine, who'd previously appeared with Ms. Clinton here after the Democratic National Convention. And Ms. Clinton sought to impress on voters the stakes for the election.
“Whatever issue you care about, it's going to be on the ballot, she said. “It may not be listed, but it’s on the ballot.
But with polls showing Ms. Clinton pulling away from Mr. Trump in Pennsylvania and many other states, she also repeatedly extended an olive branch to voters still considering Mr. Trump.
You probably know people who are thinking about voting for Donald Trump,” she said. “I want you to tell them that I understand that they need a president who cares about them ... and I want to be their president.
As the polls for the campaign remain stronger in the state, Clinton continued to focus heavily on rallying support for Democratic Senate candidate Katie McGinty, while aiming to tie her Republican opponent, incumbent Sen. Pat Toomey, to Donald Trump.
Clinton ran through Trump's controversial statements and asked: How much does he have to hear or to see? If he doesn't have the courage to stand up against Donald Trump after all of this, then how will he stand up to special interests and powerful forces trying to have their way in Washington?
“Whether you vote for name or against me, I believe we can disagree without being disagreeable,” she added later.
Still, Ms. Clinton didn’t shy from attacking Mr. Trump himself, asserting that at last week’s third and final presidential debate, Mr. Trump did something that no other presidential nominee has ever done in either party. He refused to say he would respect the results of this election.
Make no mistake about this, my friends: he is threatening our democracy, she added. She also responded to Mr. Trump’s debate assertion that if he were in president, she'd be in jail — a gibe that dovetailed with the chants of “lock her up” that are common at Trump rallies.
Every time Donald Trump says he wants to jail his opponent, meaning me, I think, ‘You know we don't do that in America.’
In another gesture that suggests how the Clinton campaign is trying to extend the map, Ms. Clinton took time to flag Pennsylvania’s Senate race, urging voters that Democrat Katie McGinty “is exactly the kind of partner we need in the Senate. But more importantly she’s the kind of senator that Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania need.”
She had harsher words for Republican incumbent Pat Toomey, who has neither endorsed nor rejected Mr. Trump’s candidacy. After reciting a litany of Mr. Trump’s statements about women and his questioning of President Barack Obama’s birthplace, she asked, How much more does Pat Toomey need to hear? If he doesn't have the courage to stand up to Donald Trump after all this, then can you be sure he’ll stand up for you when it counts.
A spokesman for the Toomey campaign fired back that Ms. Clinton's remarks were “just further proof that hyper-partisan, ethically challenged Katie McGinty will be a rubber stamp for everything Hillary Clinton wants to do in Washington. Pat Toomey has been, and will continue to be be, an independent leader in the Senate.”
Mr. Kaine also took some shots at Mr. Trump in his own warm-up speech.
Donald Trump had been talking a lot about stamina, but boy, at the end of the debates, he really looked like he was on the ropes,” he said. As for Mr. Trump's claims that the election was rigged, “He's gotten to the end of the campaign, and he's insulted every possible group [so why not] insult the pillars of American democracy?
Clinton also told her crowd she was tired of Trump supporters denigrating America."
Come on, give me a break, she said. This country has created more economic opportunity for anyone in history of the world. We just have to get it spun up again.
She alluded to the recently released hacked emails making headlines and Trump questioning their ultimate origin at the debate, asking, "Why would he believe the Russians instead of our own intelligence sources?"
After an event earlier in the day in Pittsburgh, this was Clinton and Kaine's second rally together since Labor Day.
The candidates stood under the shadow of downtown Philadelphia, in front of a crowd of 7,750 people present according to the U.S. Secret Service, and a gigantic blue light-up Stronger Together sign.
Tim Kaine returned to mocking Trump and imitating his voice, referring to the Republican nominee's claims about a rigged election as an insult to the central pillars of Democratic traditions.
That poor guy, it's so hard," Kaine teased Trump. "It's so hard to be Donald Trump and have everything rigged against you," mentioning Trump's complaints about The Apprentice and The Emmys, making fun of him by saying, "everything rigged against Donald Trump.
Kaine also yet again brought up the Republican presidential nominee's previous comments claiming that Clinton doesn't look presidential, bluntly telling the crowd, I think she looks damn presidential.
When the Virginia senator mentioned the fact that he's never lost an election, he called himself a lucky rabbit's foot, telling Clinton that they are going to win.
Even though they were campaigning in Pennsylvania, he also highlighted the campaign's expansion into traditionally red states, claiming they are "seeing support surging in places you wouldn't expect it . like Arizona and Utah and Georgia.
While campaigning with Clinton across Pennsylvania on Saturday, Kaine was making an extra point to focus on the historic nature of Clinton's candidacy and potential win, adding that on election day, the public could "in an instant change the way little girls and little boys look at their future.
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