Clinton and Kaine announce post-convention bus tour
MIAMI -- New running mates Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine will hit the road for a 3-day bus tour through Pennsylvania and Ohio after the Democratic National Convention, according to a campaign aide.
The tour, which will be Clinton and Kaine's first major campaign swing together, will focus on jobs. It will start on Friday, after a rally in Philadelphia, and continue through the weekend, and take the Democratic ticket through Harrisburg, Pittsburgh, Youngstown and Columbus.
Along the way, the aide said that they will hold both public rallies and more intimate events that zero in on specific issues related to the economy. One of the smaller events is expected to take place in Cambria County, which went for Mitt Romney in 2012: 58 percent to President Barack Obama's 40 percent. It's now considered a region where voters will favor Clinton and Kaine's opponent, Donald Trump.
But Clinton hasn't shied away from going to places where she's not exactly a favorite: in May, during a two-day trip through rural Kentucky and West Virginia, an out-of-work coal worker in Williamson confronted Clinton about her saying earlier this year that she would put coal companies and miners "out of business" with her proposals. Trump supporters, standing outside the event in the rain, chanted "Hillary go home!"
"I'm here because I want you to know whether people vote for me or not, whether they yell at me or not, is not going to affect what I'm going to try to do to help," Clinton said at the time.
On the tour this week, Clinton and Kaine will likely argue that a Trump-Pence administration would be dangerous to working class voters. The two will promote their own agenda, which includes making historic investments in infrastructure and clean energy in order to create new jobs.