Dilemma for Obama, cancel the trip implying Hillary is guilty or stand with the Democrats.
Via NPR:
President Obama has a very busy week ahead of him. According to a schedule released by the White House, the president plans to campaign Tuesday through Friday next week for Hillary Clinton. He is likely to keep up the vigorous campaign schedule in the days leading up to the election.
The president is planning a sort of “tour de swing state.” On Tuesday — exactly one week before Election Day — he will head to Ohio to campaign for Clinton at a “Get Out The Early Vote” campaign in Columbus. The next day, he’ll be in North Carolina for a similar event in Raleigh. And on Thursday, Obama will travel to Florida to campaign for Clinton in Miami and in Jacksonville. The president will also attend a Clinton event on Friday, though details on that one have not been released.
That’s a highly unusual move for a sitting president. Obama is the first president in nearly a century to campaign strongly for his chosen successor, as NPR’s Domenico Montanaro reported.
The president’s schedule for next week represents a ramping-up of what he’s been doing all month. Since the start of October, Obama has been campaigning at least once and as many as three times each week for Clinton. He’s already been to the battleground states he plans to visit next week, and has also visited Nevada and California on behalf of the Democratic candidate.
HT: West Wing Reports