Stars Fete Clinton; Trump Says He Fills Arenas

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Friday, 04 November 2016 08:59 PM EDT ET

A star-studded group of hip-hop artists is joining Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at a GOTV concert on Friday night. Donald Trump, meanwhile, is bragging that he doesn't need stars to draw thousands of supporters to his events.

Rapper Jay Z invited his wife, Beyoncé, along with friends Chance the Rapper and Big Sean to perform with him for Clinton in Cleveland.

The free concert is part of a series put on by Clinton's campaign to drum up enthusiasm for her presidential bid.

Trump told supporters in Hershey, Pennsylvania, on Friday night that he "didn't have to bring J-Lo or Jay Z" to fill the local hockey arena. He said, "I am here all by myself. Just me. No guitar, no piano, no nothing."

President Barack Obama is telling voters at a Clinton rally that what and who you are doesn't change after you become president.

Obama is trying to dispel the notion that Trump could change and become more presidential if he wins the election. He's making that case at a rally with more than 8,500 people in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Obama says someone who disrespects women before becoming president will disrespect women as president. He says someone who accepts the support of Ku Klux Klan sympathizers or is slow to disown them will be similarly inclined as president. And he says someone who disrespects the Constitution as a candidate will flout it in the Oval Office.

A Democratic elector in Washington state said Friday he won't vote for Clinton even if she wins the popular vote in his state on Election Day, adding a degree of suspense when the Electoral College affirms the election results next month.

Robert Satiacum, a member of Washington's Puyallup Tribe, supported Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary and says that he believes Clinton is a "criminal" who doesn't care enough about Americans Indians and "she's done nothing but flip back and forth."

He said he feels that neither Clinton nor Trump can lead the country.

"She will not get my vote, period," he said in a phone interview with The Associated Press.

Satiacum is one of 12 Democratic electors in Washington, which Clinton is expected to win.

Tim Kaine is getting biblical on Trump, comparing him to a dog that eats its own vomit.

The Democratic vice presidential nominee said Trump can't help himself from making crude comments about women and others. To make his point, Kaine partially quoted a verse from the Bible about failing to resist foolish behavior.

"There's an Old Testament phrase that's very graphic: 'like a dog that returneth to its own vomit,'" Kaine said to laughs at a rally in Melbourne, Florida.

Kaine said Trump "just won't stop" making sexist and offensive comments, including recent remarks that the military wouldn't follow Clinton's orders if she became president.

Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey says discussions among some congressional Republicans about impeaching Clinton are "un-American."

Some senior Republican leaders have speculated that if she wins, Clinton could be impeached for using a private server for emails as secretary of state.

Casey said Republicans should "figure out a way to move the country forward" and work with Clinton rather than focus on attacking her.

Casey made his comments in an interview at a Clinton campaign event in Pittsburgh on Friday.

Clinton's campaign is calling on rival New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to resign his post in Trump's campaign.

Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta says Trump should ask Christie to step down from his role as head of his transition team. Two of Christie's top aides were found guilty Friday on all counts for their roles in the George Washington Bridge lane closure scandal.

He said Trump is campaigning across the country and talking about "cleaning up the swamp." Podesta said: "He might start by draining his own swamp."

Clinton is making a final swing through the Rust Belt on Friday, hosting events in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan.

Democrats are denouncing remarks by John Sununu after the former New Hampshire governor joked at a Trump rally about Bill and Hillary Clinton's sexual relations.

Sununu recalled when Bill Clinton famously said "I did not have sexual relations with that woman." Sununu asked a crowd of Trump supporters: "You think Bill was referring to Hillary?"

The comment was made about Monica Lewinsky in 1998 as their affair was coming to light.

Sununu is also a former White House Chief of Staff under President George H.W. Bush. His son, Chris Sununu, is running as a Republican for governor in New Hampshire.

Democrats are demanding that Chris Sununu ask his father to apologize.

Trump is barnstorming New Hampshire in a last-ditch effort to grab the state's four Electoral College votes, a critical piece of his path to victory.

Clinton is acutely aware that her path is narrowing and she's hitting back. The former secretary of state has added a stop in the state on Sunday. And she's sending President Obama to make her closing argument there Monday in the state he won twice.

New Hampshire has voted for Democrats in every presidential race since 2004. But a trio of polls released Thursday showed the candidates virtually tied in New Hampshire. Nearly all earlier polls in the state throughout the campaign showed a Clinton lead.

Obama says the reality TV nature of the election isn't like "Survivor" or "The Bachelorette." He says, "it's like some 'Love and Hip Hop' stuff."

Obama is referring to the VH1 reality show about the music industry during a rally for Clinton in Fayetteville, North Carolina. It's one of two rallies Obama is holding for Clinton in the state Friday.

The president is warning voters that the U.S. can't tolerate the degradation of politics that he attributed to Trump's campaign.

Obama is chastising supporters at a Clinton rally who turned on a protester supporting Trump.

Obama was interrupted at a rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina, by a man in a military-style outfit with a Trump sign shouting "Trump" over and over. The crowd quickly erupted and one man nearby reached out with his hand in an attempt to silence the protester.

Obama told the crowd to sit down and be quiet. He says the protester was "not doing nothing" and wasn't a concern.

He says if Democrats lose focus, they'll be in trouble on Election Day.

Clinton's campaign manager says the Democratic presidential nominee is building a "firewall" in states with early voting.

In a conference call with reporters Friday, Robby Mook touted early vote turnout in North Carolina, Florida and Nevada. He said the campaign is working to "build up a lead that Trump is incapable of overcoming."

Mook said the campaign was targeting voters who were less likely to participate and estimated that at least 40 percent of registered voters have already cast ballots in those states. He said Trump will have to "outperform Romney on Election Day" to pull ahead in those states. He was referring to 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney.

Mook said Clinton was winning support from the "Hillary Coalition." He said that includes Latinos, Asian-Americans and college-educated women.

Clinton is celebrating a new jobs report that shows U.S. employers added 161,000 jobs to the workforce last month.

She's telling voters at a rally in Pittsburgh that the new report marks 73 straight months of job growth.

She said she believes the "economy is poised to really take off and thrive." She said: "When the middle class thrives, American thrives."

Clinton said rival Trump would create an economy that would benefit the richest Americans, including his own family.

With early voting almost complete, her campaign is focusing battlegrounds like Pennsylvania, Michigan and New Hampshire in the final days of the race. The majority of voters in those key swing states cast ballots on Tuesday, Election Day.

Trump is continuing to hit on the cloud of controversy that hangs over Democratic rival Clinton.

He summed it up to an Atkinson, New Hampshire, audience Friday by saying: "What a mess."

He added: "And all she had to do is follow the rules."

Trump was referring to controversies surrounding Clinton's use of a private email system while secretary of state and the work of the Clinton family foundation.

Trump again speculated, without evidence, that, a Clinton presidency would be marred by investigations and trials, creating "an unprecedented constitutional crisis." The FBI recommended against charging anyone in connection with the email setup this summer.

Trump also accused the Department of Justice of doing everything it can "to protect their angel."

Trump is claiming a new jobs report shows the U.S. economy is in bad shape.

Trump was speaking at a rally in Atkinson, New Hampshire as he tries to win a state that appears increasingly up for grabs.

His rally came hours after the government reported that employers added 161,000 jobs to the workforce in October. The report also showed that workers received their best pay raises in seven years.

Trump called the numbers "an absolute disaster." He said the growth rate isn't good enough and unemployment is still too high. He has long argued that the unemployment numbers released every month by the government are skewed because they don't include groups such as those who've stopped looking for jobs.

He said, "Nobody believes the numbers they're reporting anyway."

Trump's legion of followers is growing confident of his victory in the presidential race — and many say they would refuse to accept his defeat.

They are reinforced by tightening poll numbers and renewed scrutiny of Clinton's emails just days before Election Day.

Nancy Fraize of New Hampshire says, "we're going to win" and if Trump doesn't "we'll all be at the White House sitting on the front lawn. In arms."

In more than two dozen interviews conducted in battleground states in recent days, Trump supporters are nearly uniformly confident about their candidate's chances. Many say they feel he has momentum after the FBI's decision to review emails that may related to Clinton's private server.

An introductory speaker at a Trump rally is pushing back against an audience member who shouted "Execute her" about Clinton.

Sununu had been discussing the FBI's discovery of emails that may be related to its dormant investigation of Clinton.

That's when a man in the crowd Friday in Atkinson, New Hampshire yelled out "Execute her!" amid chants of "Lock her up!"

While such rhetoric is not unusual at Trump rallies, Sununu paused for a moment to chastise the man.

He said, "No, you don't need that kind of stuff, really and truly. There's a limit to what's acceptable."

Sununu did not support Trump in the primary, but now says that Clinton "makes it damn easy" for him to back his party's nominee.

Georgia has broken an early voting record set eight years ago.

Secretary of State Brian Kemp, the state's top elections official, announced Friday that Georgians have cast more than 2,180,000 early ballots. That's over 50,000 more than were cast in 2008.

Kemp says the number will continue to climb Friday, the last day of advance in-person voting.

Trump is favored in Georgia, long a Republican stronghold. But some polls suggest the race could be tight.

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