Clinton turns focus to down-ballot candidates in final days

Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine will make two campaign stops in North Carolina on Thursday.

“Hillary Clinton and I look at education as a way for society to get stronger”, Kaine said.

The pair are spending the day in the battleground state of Pennsylvania.

If Clinton becomes president, Kaine said, “there are some Donald Trump supporters that would be very hard for us to win (over)”.

“North Carolina’s a swing state, so it’s very likely I’ll just vote against Trump”, says student Josh Sykes.

Tim Kaine, of Virginia, told more than 200 campaign volunteers in this Columbus suburb.

“Equality is a basic fundamental right … equality is our North Star”, he said.

The vice presidential candidate told The Associated Press on Saturday that he and Hillary Clinton have already spoken about how to heal the nation if they should win.

The first person in line, Nick Starks, of Park Forest, Pa., was there even though he said the election has been making everyone “really exhausted”.

Lately, Hillary Clinton’s campaign has been intensely focusing on the scenario in which they win the elections.

The crowd booed that remark.

“‘It’s like when he ran out of groups to insult, he said, ‘I know what, I’ll insult our democratic traditions, ‘” Kaine said. Pat Toomey, saying he had failed to “stand up” to Donald Trump in the face of his comments about Mexican immigrants and a Muslim-American military family.

He also questioned why Trump won’t acknowledge that Russian Federation has been behind the hacking of several email accounts of Democratic officials.

“Jesus spoke more about the poor than just about any other topic, probably more than any other topic”, Kaine said.

Further down the line was Linda Deveney and her daughter, who said she was there early because they wanted to be able to meet Kaine.

Kaine continued, “The other thing that Donald did last night that was pretty interesting – while he wasn’t willing to defend our democratic process, he wasn’t willing to defend the outcome of a democratic election, he also wasn’t willing to condemn Vladimir Putin who is trying to destabilize and influence an American election”.

Mr. Trump will hold a rally at 12:30 p.m. today at the Delaware County Fairgrounds, the same place Mrs. Clinton’s husband, former President Bill Clinton, visited on Friday. “He comes back to it in Scripture again and again to drive home the central teaching that serving the poor is among the most important things we do”.

“We are going to move this country forward”, he said, additionally advocating for the election of Katie McGinty.

Clinton is stepping up efforts to help Democrats recapture Senate control but Kaine didn’t make a specific pitch for a Democratic Senate. “That was a remarkable debate by Hillary Clinton”.