Clinton says she won’t be going Mexico before Election Day

Clinton, the Democratic nominee, will attend events with working families in Cleveland, Ohio and Hampton, Illinois celebrating Labor Day, the United States holiday that traditionally kicks off the fall campaign season and the fast-paced, two-month sprint to the November presidential election.

While Labour Day has traditionally been the kickoff to the fall campaign, both Ms. Clinton and Mr. Trump have been locked in an intense back-and-forth throughout the summer.

The former secretary of state, who has been markedly press averse for much of her campaign, joked with reporters on board that she had “been just waiting for this moment”.

But Trump’s unconventional White House bid, including his campaign’s apparent imperviousness to criticism about his harsh rhetoric, assures a tight contest for the next 64 days until the election. It’s a step toward more media access to Clinton, who hasn’t held a formal press conference since December and has only once taken questions from the media organizations who travel with her since the end of primaries.

Trump campaigned outside Cleveland and near Youngstown. “We are going to enforce the laws of this country, end catch and release, do all these things that politicians have been talking about for more than a generation”, Pence said. “I’m not concerned about the conspiracy theories”.

While most polls show Trump trailing Clinton in many battleground states where the election will likely be decided – including in OH – he has drawn close to even with her in some national polls and even inched ahead in others.

She told reporters, “We are going to have to take those threats and attacks seriously”.

Trump’s latest repositioning Monday on the question of legal status came one day after key campaign surrogates and his running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, gave conflicting answers about whether the nominee’s immigration plan still includes mass deportations.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, accompanied by Democratic vice presidential candidate, Sen.

Asked on Monday if she believed the Russian government was trying to help elect her opponent, Clinton paused. “I think you have an obligation to do the debates”, Trump said Monday to reporters in Ohio.

It was a near-encounter that even forced the Trump press team to the side of the road as Mrs Clinton’s motorcade whizzed by.

Instead, Trump focused on the need to secure the border and deport undocumented immigrants who have committed crimes in the USA and those who have overstayed their visas, and left the door open to reexamining the cases of the remaining millions of undocumented immigrants.

Under Clinton, “people can pour across the border and it doesn’t matter who the people are”.

“The mayor today is just one example of what’s happening across this country”, Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said. While it was innocent for some, others had a more political message. Polls show Trump trailing Clinton in a series of must-win battleground states, meaning the debates could be his best chance at reorienting the race.

“Trump is hoping that he can do something similar to the UK’s Brexit vote, where mobilising a populist fear of immigrants can build a cross-class alliance of white people at a time of deep economic insecurity”, New York University scholar Arun Kundnani told Al Jazeera. No, I expect to do all three”, he quipped, adding that the choice of moderators won’t keep him away.”I like them – I respect the moderators. For a time, their planes were parked about 200 yards apart at the Cleveland airport, a sign of Ohio’s importance in the election.

The Republican Party seconded Trump’s objection, and Republican National Committee chief strategist and communications director Sean Spicer said the scheduling “was a dumb idea and should be revisited”.

“If Trump loses OH he loses the race”, Brown told AFP.