HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania -- Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine hit the road on their first campaign swing together on Friday in a brand new campaign bus, emblazoned with their campaign's slogan: "Stronger Together." The new bus is painted a bright, royal blue, but its route this weekend runs through an area of red.
"This is the part of the campaign I really like," Kaine said at a joint rally in Philadelphia, the unofficial kickoff of the tour. "I don't like wearing a tie that much. I'd rather just go out and pound the pavement."
Over the course of three days, Clinton and Kaine will cover more than 600 miles across Republican-leaning Western Pennsylvania and Eastern and Central Ohio tailed by a second bus carrying staffers, their Secret Service details and three busloads of reporters and television producers. Their focus will be on their jobs plan, and wooing middle class, white Americans in manufacturing communities.
It's these voters that could help carry Donald Trump and Indiana Gov. Mike Pence to victory in November.
"We're going to be visiting a few places where people are making things," Clinton said. "I find it highly amusing that Donald Trump talks about 'Make America Great Again.' He doesn't make a thing in America -- except bankruptcies."
At their second stop on Friday, a visit to a K'NEX toy factory in Hatfield, Pa., Clinton went further, ticking through examples of Trump "ruining" small businesses that provided materials or other services for his organization.
