Bush reaching out to Democrats in Rust Belt battleground tour
Wednesday,October27,2004,8:15 PM
WHITE HOUSE President Bush returns to key Rust-Belt battlegrounds today, as he reaches out for Democratic backing in the campaign's final days. The president has stops in Pennsylvania and Ohio, then wraps up the day with a big night-time rally at the Silverdome near Detroit.
Bush is being joined by Georgia Senator Zell Miller, the Democrat whose speech at the G-O-P convention lauded Bush as a courageous wartime leader and attacked John Kerry as weak.
Yesterday, riding his campaign bus in Wisconsin and Iowa, Bush appealed directly for Democratic votes. He said Kerry has turned his back on the muscular foreign policy tradition of Roosevelt and Kennedy -- urging Democrats worried by the trend to pull the lever for him.
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