Bill Clinton to rally Fort Collins on Friday
Former President Bill Clinton will hold a rally Friday in Fort Collins, marking the highest profile visit of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign to the area this election cycle.
The Democrat's visit comes on the heels of high-profile stops by Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump and his pick for vice president, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, earlier in the week. Pence will speak at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at The Ranch in Loveland. Ticket information is available at www.donaldjtrump.com.
Donald Trump Jr. also plans a Thursday rally at Colorado Youth Outdoors southeast of Fort Collins, Trump's Colorado campaign announced late Tuesday.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, who swept Larimer County and Colorado in his failed bid for the Democratic nomination, urged his supporters at Colorado State University to coalesce around Hillary Clinton earlier in October and Clinton's daughter, Chelsea, will visit Boulder on Wednesday.
Details on Bill Clinton's visit were not immediately available, though attendees can RSVP via www.hillaryclinton.com.
Voters in Colorado started receiving ballots two weeks ago, with many already casting their votes. In Larimer County, early returns show the number of Democrats and Republicans who have already voted at 24,562 and 24,532, respectively, per numbers sent out by the Secretary of State's office Tuesday morning. Unaffiliated voters, the largest bloc in Larimer County, have cast 20,867 ballots so far.
The total ballots cast represent about a third of all active registered voters in Larimer County at the beginning of October, though the number of registered voters is sure to increase with Colorado's same-day registration rules.
Polling aggregate website RealClearPolitics shows Hillary Clinton with a 4 percentage point advantage over Trump, though the most recent poll used in its formula has Clinton up by 1 percentage point. It showed the former Secretary of State leading in the Centennial State by 8 percentage points on Oct. 16. It showed Clinton and Trump effectively tied at the beginning of October.