Star power in her campaign
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, whose buoyant position in opinion polls has been threatened by a surprising new twist in the saga over her emails, harnessed some celebrity star power she hopes will help win the battleground state of Florida on November 8.
By : migrator
Update: 2016-10-30 15:20 GMT
Musician and actor Jennifer Lopez headlined a free concert in Miami as part of a star-studded effort to get out the vote and energize volunteers. “We’re at a crossroads and we have to take the right road to the future,” Lopez shouted to screaming fans in rain gear who danced through rain and a shower of red, white and blue confetti.
The concert provided some visual counter-programming to the latest email snafu to roil Clinton’s race to win the White House. The Federal Bureau of Investigation said, on Friday, it is investigating more emails as part of a probe into Clinton’s use of a private email system - a late-breaking surprise that will likely continue to get extensive media play leading up Election Day. Clinton’s campaign has said she is taking the news in stride, and on Saturday she lashed out at FBI Director James Comey over the review.
The JLo event was the first of three high-profile concerts in states Clinton wants to keep from Republican rival Donald Trump, and it gave the former secretary of state a chance to connect with the key demographic of millennials she has sometimes struggled to reach. “If we turn out, we win,” Clinton told the crowd.
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