WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 (UPI) — Hillary Clinton capped off her single busiest day of campaigning since Super Tuesday on Friday, headlining rallies in four cities: Pittsburgh, Detroit, Cleveland and Miami.
Along the way she was joined by celebrities and musicians helping draw bigger crowds and drive up enthusiasm — and in two cities get people to the polls immediately to vote early.
Though interwoven with the excitement of a campaign was some anxiety about one of the locations, Detroit. Michigan is a state Democrats have counted on to be in their win column as part of a Midwestern firewall in the electoral college.
The campaign added the Detroit rally later than the rest of her Friday schedule but her campaign denied there was any concern they might lose it on Tuesday. Instead, campaign officials said Clinton has focused most of her energy on states that allow early voting. Michigan does is not among them and virtually all voters must show up at the polls on Election Day.
Opinion surveys have shown Clinton with a steady lead in the state, which hasn’t voted Republican since 1988, but the gap between her and Donald Trump has tightened. A string of recent surveys there show her with an average lead of 4 percentage points, according to Real Clear Politics, down from 7 points just five days ago.
Republicans, on the other hand, have expressed optimism about their prospects in Michigan. Republican National Committee Communications Director Sean Spicer told MSNBC on Friday the GOP’s internal polling shows Clinton and Trump in a dead heat there, providing Trump with a pickup opportunity in traditionally Democratic terrain that would widen his path to 270 electoral votes.
Still, not a single public poll has shown Trump with an actual lead in the state.
Clinton campaigned with billionaire Mark Cuban and at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh and again in Detroit, where she spoke to about 4,000 people. She continued to Cleveland where music icons Beyonce and Jay-Z headlined a concert. She ended the day in Miami where she picked up on the campaign trail again Saturday morning.
Trump campaigned in rural Ohio and New Hampshire and in Hershey, Pa., on Friday.
