Hillary Clinton's Road Warriors
Even with the candidate sidelined, her message is still being spread in battleground states.
By David Catanese | Senior Politics Writer
Sept. 14, 2016, at 6:00 a.m.
Hillary Clinton's bout with pneumonia is taking her off the campaign trail for much of this week. But unlike her opponent, the Democratic presidential nominee has plenty of reinforcements on the road in her place – high-profile surrogates who are drawing crowds, singing her praises and jabbing at Donald Trump, handing her an overlooked messaging enhancement spread far and wide across the country.
Even before her illness, Clinton's front-line validators were having a multiplying effect in battleground states whereas Trump has largely been relying on his running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, to pitch his case separate from him.
In the last week, former President Bill Clinton stumped for his wife in Durham, North Carolina, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, while Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts rallied an audience at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, skewering Trump as "the large, orange elephant in the room."
On Tuesday, President Barack Obama followed Warren into the City of Brotherly Love, with a widely covered visit that was scheduled even before Clinton was forced to take time off. Chelsea Clinton is in the midst of a three-day tour talking her mom up to millennials in college towns like Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Roanoke, Virginia and Dayton, Ohio. Over the Labor Day weekend, Vice President Joe Biden hit a union hall in Warren, Ohio, on behalf of Clinton. This Friday, First Lady Michelle Obama stumps for her husband's former rival in Fairfax, Virginia.
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