Team Hillary is working overtime. As polls show the gap between her and Donald Trump narrowing down to just one per cent (this is the composite of several polls; in some polls Trump is ahead), her commanders are all out at the front, working overtime.
President Barack Obama has a packed schedule in the final week of campaigning, hopping from battleground Florida to North Carolina to New Hampshire and back to Florida on November 7, a day before election day.
Every swing state is being visited and revisited, not just by one celebrity endorser, but more. Chelsea Clinton, mother of a newborn is dashing from North Carolina to New Hampshire. Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, Bill Clinton and Tim Kaine too have several airmiles to cover.
Clinton meanwhile released one of the nastiest advertisements so far, featuring Trump's anti-women utterances compiled from years of his statements. And as Obama spoke about how a man who speaks this way about women when campaigning is likely to be the same when he is president, America was left wondering what has happened to the country—when did a sitting president begin saying such things about someone who just might become president?
In another advertisement, with more taste, the party appeals to the 27 million eligible Hispanic/Latino voters to vote for United States, not United Hate.
Trump meanwhile appears to be rejuvenated with the poll indications. There's renewed vigour in his speeches. His trademark workman's cap is back on the head (he'd taken it off in recent days, perhaps to look more 'presidential'). He regaled audiences with a speech in which he kept telling himself to be under control, because Hillary was “unhinged” already.
“She is the candidate of yesterday, we are the future,'' he said.
His schedule is rushing between Florida, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Ohio and North Carolina.
Wife Melania is also slated to make a public appearance and speech, weeks after her debut speech, which was booed as it was copied from an earlier speech of Michelle Obama.
