PHILADELPHIA – Hillary Clinton capped off a four-day Democratic Party convention celebration with a plea for national unity and tolerance and immediately headed out on a campaign trail that will bring her to Columbus within three days of her acceptance of her party’s presidential nomination.
One of the most divisive and distrusted figures in American political life, Clinton’s effort to convince voters that she, rather than Republican rival Donald Trump, can bring a deeply divided nation together will begin when she and running mate Sen. Tim Kaine take a bus tour through two Rust Belt battlegrounds, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
They will appear at East High School in Youngstown Saturday, A Piece of Cleveland Sunday, and the tour finishes Sunday afternoon at Fort Hayes Metropolitan Education Center on the Northeast Side.
They will speak about economic opportunity, diversity and national security, themes hammered home during their party’s convention.
The shoot-from-the-hip billionaire believes he can make headway in those states with blue-collar white men. Trump was in Toledo earlier in the week and vice presidential nominee Indiana Gov. Mike Pence will hold a campaign rally in Lima Friday.
Ohio voted for Democrat Barack Obama in the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections, and has earned its battleground status by voting for the overall winner in every presidential election since 1964.