Election 2016
Trump, Kaine to campaign in stateJOHNSTOWN — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his Democratic opponent’s running mate, Tim Kaine, will both be campaigning in Pennsylvania later this week.Trump plans a Friday rally at the Cambria County War Memorial Arena, a 4,000-seat junior league hockey arena in Johnstown. Kaine, Hillary Clinton’s running mate, will be in State College, near Penn State University’s main campus, also on Friday.Details of Kaine’s appearance have yet to be released.Trump will appear at 4 p.m.
Bon Jovi to play concert for Clinton PITTSBURGH — New Jersey rocker Jon Bon Jovi will be in Pittsburgh next week to play a “Get Out The Vote” concert in support of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.Details including the location, time and how to get tickets for the Oct. 27 show haven’t been released. Clinton’s campaign says that information will be forthcoming in a few days.The campaign is having Bon Jovi perform at another similar event in Tampa, Florida on Nov. 5.
Obama to Trump: ‘Stop whining’WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama all but invited Donald Trump Tuesday to jump into a fight with him, baiting the Republican nominee as he faces an overwhelming disadvantage in the polls just three weeks before Election Day.Speaking to reporters at the White House, Obama mocked Trump for complaining, while the race is still afoot, that the vote-counting system may be “rigged.”“If you start whining before the game’s even over, if whenever things are going badly for you and you lose, you start blaming somebody else, then you don’t have what it takes to be in this job,” Obama said, his voice cracking with amusement.“I’d invite Mr. Trump to stop whining and go try to make his case to get votes.”
Reid calls Trump campaign ‘dirty’RENO, Nev. — Asked to compare Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump to a boxer, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid didn’t disappoint.The retiring Nevada Democrat and former amateur middleweight boxer offered up “Two Ton” Tony Galento — who had fought, among others, Joe Louis at Yankee Stadium in 1939.“He was a big fat guy, and he didn’t win many fights, but he got lots of them because he was unorthodox,” Reid said in an interview with Roll Call. “He was somewhat dirty, and that’s the Trump campaign: kind of fat, ugly and dirty.”