Obama urges Dems to campaign aggressively for Clinton
CHILMARK, Mass. — Adding a touch of politics to his vacation, President Barack Obama on Monday urged Democrats to campaign aggressively for the next 80 days to elect presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, saying “if we do not do our jobs, then it’s still possible for her to lose.”
“When I say do our jobs what I mean is we are going to have to continue to be engaged, write checks, make phone calls, rally people behind her candidacy,” Obama said, urging Democratic donors at a fundraiser to help counter an “unrelenting negative campaign” against the former secretary of state “that has made a dent in the opinion of people who even are inclined to vote for her.”
Clinton’s standing among voters has suffered from perceptions that she is dishonest, along with her use of a private email server when she ran the State Department and the appearance of conflicts of interest between that department and her family foundation.
“We have to be aggressive in our campaign for 80 days and that’s not a lot,” Obama said. “But when you think about the stakes, there’s nothing more important” than electing Clinton to continue the economic and other progress he described under his leadership.