US President Barack Obama is urging Americans to make history by electing Clinton to succeed him in the White House.
“I ask you to do for Hillary what you did for me,” Obama tells a rally in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the first of three he is holding for Clinton on the eve of the vote.
“You have the chance to reject a coarse, divisive, mean-spirited politics that would take us backwards,” he says. “The chance to elect our first female president.”
He also makes an explicit pitch to Michigan’s auto workers that Trump doesn’t care about their future.
Chelsea Clinton, left, prepares to embrace US President Barack Obama at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, November 7, 2016, during a campaign rally for Chelsea’s mother, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. (AP /Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Obama says auto workers shouldn’t be “bamboozled” by the Republican business mogul.
He says he and Democrats have “earned some credibility here,” after saving Michigan’s auto industry through federal bailouts early in Obama’s presidency.
Obama says in contrast, Trump said Washington could have let the auto companies go bankrupt. He said if even two of the major auto companies had gone bankrupt, it could have cost a million US jobs and killed Michigan’s auto industry.
— Agencies
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