LAS VEGAS _ Hillary Clinton cast Donald Trump on Wednesday as indifferent, if not hostile, to minority groups _ a troubling trait that has no place in the Oval Office, she said as she made a closing pitch to Latino voters.
"If you don't fit into a very narrow category of people he can relate to, then somehow you don't have a part of Trump's America," she said at a union hall in Las Vegas. "That really bothers me."
Clinton, trying to both demonstrate confidence and motivate Democrats to vote, acknowledged that the election has posed a difficult choice for many Americans.
Though her campaign maintained that it expects to win, Clinton urged supporters to imagine what it would be like to have Trump sworn in as president in January.
"What kind of change are we going to have?" she asked. "Someone who demeans women, mocks the disabled, insults Latinos and African-Americans. What would it be like to have that person in the most powerful office in the world?"
That is Clinton's final pitch to Latinos _ a reminder of what her campaign calls Trump's "record of insults" against minority groups.
Clinton reminded voters of how Trump has denigrated the contributions of immigrants and the children of immigrants, such as the Mexican American judge overseeing the Trump University case, whose impartiality Trump repeatedly questioned.
Clinton also debuted new English- and Spanish-language ads Wednesday. "Twenty-seven million are ready to put up a fight, and not be intimidated by hatred and spite," the narrator says in the minute-long English-language spot.
Campaign spokeswoman Jennifer Palmieri said it was important in the closing week to contrast Trump's "dark" vision with Clinton's record and experience in national security. She maintained that the campaign continued to see positive trends in early voting in key states such as Nevada and Arizona. Clinton herself noted here that no Democrat had won the state since her husband in 1996.
"It's close and competitive. And it's going to be a great honor to campaign in these last six days across this country. Because this, my friends, is not a normal election," she said.
