With Michelle Obama on stage, Clinton plays role of warm-up act

Obama said, noting that Hillary Clinton is more qualified to be president than either Barack Obama or Bill Clinton were when they entered office.

“I’m going to vote anyway. whether they expand the days or narrowed it down”, she said after voting Thursday.

Biden is among a long list of political leaders visiting the Tar Heel state. In 2012, Obama carried the state with 2,827,710 votes to Republican nominee Mitt Romney’s 2,661,433.

Without once mentioning the Republican presidential nominee’s name, Obama warned that Trump’s is a vision “grounded in hopelessness and despair”.

North Carolina is a battleground state considered an essential win for Donald Trump’s path to the White House.

Mrs Obama has been recruited to secure her husband’s legacy by helping to elect another Democratic president. “I don’t know why they would want to come here but it’s exciting”. The emails were among thousands stolen from the private account of a top Clinton aide, part of a hacking the Democratic campaign has blamed on the Russians.

Yet if Obama didn’t do as much as some Democrats wanted, it may be because he was never explicitly asked.

She might be the breakout star of this year’s campaign trail, but First Lady Michelle Obama won’t be making the jump from surrogate to candidate. The remark was interpreted by some as a veiled dig at Clinton that was meant to refer to Bill Clinton’s sexual indiscretions.

While Mrs Clinton harboured political ambitions beyond her husband’s presidency, Mrs Obama does not seem interested in pursuing her own political career further. “She has spent eight years as our first lady advocating for girls around the world to go to school”.

Trump said of Clinton, “We must not let her take her criminal scheme into the Oval Office”. Perhaps one day down the road, once Michelle has had time away from the White House, she’ll decide that an epic return is in order.

Details of the president’s visit were released by Clinton’s campaign Monday.

“That is the choice we face between those who divide this country into us versus them and those who tell us to embrace our better angels and choose hope over fear”, she said.

“Once those sites open up and people start utilizing those, we should see a pretty significant jump”, said Michael Bitzer, a professor at Catawba College. Deep in transition planning, she’s begun retooling her campaign message to emphasize unifying the country after a divisive race.

Clinton told Extra, “I don’t know how anybody could have done what she’s done for the last eight years with more grace and more of a sense of goal, but inclusivity”.

In a stunning airing of internal disagreement, some Justice Department officials blamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation by making clear to reporters that they had cautioned Comey against notifying Congress just before next Tuesday’s election, and he’d ignored their advice.

In the past few weeks, Michelle, 52, has emerged as a strong advocate of Clinton, 69, and has made several impressive speeches in some of the key battle ground states.

Obama acknowledged that Clinton may not always be “flashy”, but told the mostly young audience that was she lacks in “sound bites” she makes up for with the work she does.