Clinton, Trump Campaigns Point Fingers, Seek To Sway Voters 4 Days Before Election
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- With just four days until the election, the campaigns for both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were doing everything they could Friday to sway voters.
As CBS2's Dick Brennan reported, a lot of the efforts seemed to involve pointing fingers.
There was a real blitz in the battleground states for both sides. Trump was in New Hampshire, Ohio and Pennsylvania, while Clinton was in Pennsylvania and Michigan – specifically, Pittsburgh and Detroit.
The candidates mixed it up over jobs numbers on Friday.
"We got some good news this morning. Our economy created 161,000 jobs last month. That is 73 straight months of job growth," Clinton said, "and I believe that our economy is poised to really take off and thrive."
Clinton jumped on the economic news as she stumped for votes in Pittsburgh. But in New Hampshire, Trump had a very different take.
"The terrible jobs report that just came out shows the number of people not in the workforce increased by another 425,000 people last month," Trump said. "That's why you see these phony numbers about 5 percent unemployed. People are stopping. They're not looking for work anymore."
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Trump is trying to rally Republicans in rural areas, while Clinton is hoping to run up the score in big cities.
"Donald Trump wants to try and turn out what he's been calling his silent majority," said "Face the Nation" host John Dickerson. "Hillary Clinton needs to turn out her base, and that base is African-Americans."
Clinton has surrogates all over the map, including her husband, former President Bill Clinton, who took time to comment about Trump's wife, Melania.
"Yesterday, I never felt so bad for anybody in my life as I did for his wife," Bill Clinton said.
Clinton criticized Melania Trump, for her speech on Thursday calling for more civility and less cyberbullying. The former president suggested that Donald Trump himself was guilty of cyberbullying.
"Going out, giving a speech saying, 'Oh, cyberbullying was a terrible thing,' and I thought, 'Yeah, especially if it's done at 3 o'clock in the morning a former Miss Universe by a guy running for president,'" former President Clinton said.
With four days to go, both sides were worried about turnout.
"Vote early, with a friend," said Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence.
Whoever wins, a CBS news poll indicates a whopping 82 percent of voters say they are already disgusted with this election.
"This is something that has brought out the dark side of America, and we've got to find a way to get back on track here," said CBS News contributor Bob Schieffer.
Trump adviser and former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has also found himself surrounded by controversy, after he said he knew in advance that the FBI was going to review emails connected to Hillary Clinton before it was announced by the bureau.
Giuliani said he expected it to happen three or four weeks ago. He said he did nothing "to get it out," but he was tipped off.