WASHINGT0N (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. presidential campaign (all times EDT):
11:25 a.m.
Hillary Clinton is airing ads in Wisconsin for the first time in the general election campaign.
Clinton’s Wisconsin campaign director Jake Hajdu said Friday that the ads will begin airing in Milwaukee, Madison and Green Bay on Monday.
On Tuesday, Clinton’s running mate Tim Kaine will campaign in the state, his first appearance in Wisconsin since August. Clinton has yet to make a general election campaign stop.
Polls have consistently shown Clinton with a lead over Donald Trump in the state.
Hajdu said in a statement that the ads were also designed to help other Democrats on the ballot, including former U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold. He’s in a rematch against Republican Sen. Ron Johnson.
The ad buy was at least $100,000. Clinton’s campaign did not release the exact amount.
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11:15 a.m.
Mike Pence is getting back in the air on a new plane the morning after his campaign plane slid off the runway at New York’s LaGaurdia Airport.
The Republican vice presidential candidate, his staff, U.S. Secret Service agents and reporters are flying from Newark, New Jersey to Trenton, Pennsylvania. Pence will also campaign in North Carolina later Friday.
Pence’s entourage is traveling in an Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800, operated by a private charter company. It doesn’t feature the names of Pence and Donald Trump, nor the slogan “Make America Great Again.”
Those were stenciled on Pence’s regular 737-700 plane, which slid sideways off the runway and onto the grass after a rough landing in the rain Thursday.
No one was injured.
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10:25 a.m.
The Democratic National Committee wants a federal judge to allow it to see any emails between Donald Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee about issues related to ballot security and voter suppression.
A federal judge in New Jersey on Thursday scheduled arguments for next week.
The DNC claims presidential candidate Donald Trump’s campaign is trying to intimidate and discourage minority voters and the RNC is supporting his efforts. It has cited Mike Pence’s comments that the campaign and the RNC are working closely with state governments “to ensure ballot integrity.”
The RNC has called the DNC’s filing “completely meritless.” Its response is due later Friday. The judge has said he will decide Monday which requests he’ll allow.
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9:05 a.m.
President Barack Obama is telling voters in a new ad that a vote for Hillary Clinton is a vote to uphold his legacy.
Obama says in the ad that “all the progress we’ve made these last eight years is on the ballot.” He’s citing equality, justice, tolerance and respect for women as values he says Clinton would continue to promote.
It’s a sharp contrast from two years ago, when Obama was unpopular and Democrats winced when he occasionally said his policies were on the ballot in the midterms.
Clinton’s campaign says the ad is airing nationally, but mostly in Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio and North Carolina. Obama holds a rally for Clinton in Florida on Friday evening.
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8:20 a.m.
Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence says there’s “strong evidence” and “significant intelligence” indicating that Russia is behind the hacked emails of Hillary Clinton’s campaign staff.
The comments are in contrast to assertions by his running mate, Donald Trump, who claims the U.S. has “no idea” who is behind the email hacks. The U.S. intelligence community has blamed Moscow, stating that “based on the scope and sensitivity” of the hacking, “only Russia’s senior-most officials could have authorized these activities.”
In an interview Friday on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Pence said “there’s certainly strong evidence (to) that effect.”
He said if he and Trump are elected, they would “follow the facts.” Pence added: “Certainly there’s going to be very strong consequences if any state actor is involved.”
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7:30 a.m.
Republican Mike Pence says he’s grateful for the “quick action” of his pilot and first responders when his campaign plane slid off a runway at New York’s LaGuardia Airport.
No one was injured in the incident Thursday. Pence told ABC’s “Good Morning America” that he felt the plane fishtail after a hard landing.
He said, “just for a few seconds, you could feel us bouncing off. And with mud splattered up on the windows, we figured we were off the runway.”
Pence said first responders were “on the scene at LaGuardia before the aircraft even came to a halt.”
The plane was coming to New York from Fort Dodge, Iowa.
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3:40 a.m.
Hillary Clinton has turned to popular first lady Michelle Obama to rally voters in North Carolina, part of the effort to deliver a knockout blow to Donald Trump.
For his part, the New York billionaire is denouncing both Hillary and Bill Clinton as creatures of a corrupt political system, who would use the Oval Office to enrich themselves at the expense of American families.
New fundraising reports show that Trump is facing a sizable deficit that could cripple his final efforts to win on Election Day.
Clinton entered the final stretch of the race with a resounding cash advantage over Trump. As of last week, her campaign and Democratic partners had $153 million in the bank, more than double what Trump’s side had available.
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