Hillary Clinton Takes Aim at Voters Drifting Toward Third Party.
' Hillary Clinton and her Democratic allies, unnerved by the tightening presidential race, are making a major push to dissuade disaffected voters from backing third-party candidates, and pouring more energy into Rust Belt states, where Donald J. Trump is gaining ground.
With Mrs. Clinton enduring one of the rockiest stretches of her second bid for the presidency, her campaign and affiliated Democratic groups are shifting their focus to those voters, many of them millennials, who recoil at Mr. Trump, her Republican opponent, but now favor the Libertarian nominee, Gary Johnson, or the Green Party candidate, Jill Stein.
While still optimistic that the race will turn decisively back in Mrs. Clinton’s favor after the debates, leading Democrats have been alarmed by the drift of young voters toward the third-party candidates.
The principal “super PAC” supporting Mrs. Clinton’s candidacy, Priorities USA Action, has concluded from its polling and other research that the reluctance to embrace the Democratic nominee among those who intensely dislike Mr. Trump is not going away and must be confronted. . .
“From now until Nov. 8, everywhere I go I’m going to talk about my ideas for our country,” Mrs. Clinton told reporters on Thursday in Greensboro, N.C., as she returned to the campaign trail for the first time since revealing she had pneumonia after nearly collapsing Sunday at a Sept. 11 memorial event.
At the same time, the Clinton campaign will try to more directly address the pocketbook concerns of blue-collar voters, particularly in Rust Belt states, where Mr. Trump has appeal.
In Ohio, for example, the Clinton campaign has opened 54 offices aimed at turning out the vote. But three public polls this week showed Mr. Trump holding a narrow lead there, and prominent Clinton supporters in Ohio said the former secretary of state needs to make clear what she will do for working-class people.'>>>
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