Hillary Clinton Starts a Two-Day Swing in Florida

Hillary Clinton will start a two-day campaign swing via Florida on Monday, seeking to hold Donald J. Trump on his heels in a state seen as primary to his electoral fortunes. Mrs. Clinton's scheduled stops speak to her team's geographic strategy within the state, where the crusade has already opened a dozen places of work, with plans for 2 greater this week.

She is starting her tour at a brewery in St. Petersburg in Pinellas County, a swing county that President Obama carried in each and every of his elections. (George W. Bush narrowly gained the county in 2004.)

After a 2d adventure in St. Petersburg, Mrs. Clinton will go about a hundred miles northeast, to Kissimmee, Fla., for one more rally.

On Tuesday, Mrs. Clinton is expected to seek advice from a health care middle in Miami to lift recognition in regards to the probability posed by way of the Zika virus. Mrs. Clinton leads Mr. Trump in a head-to-head matchup through six percent points in Florida, 48 percent to 42 %, in keeping with a ballot released last week through Suffolk school in Boston. In a four-method race that contains Gary Johnson, a Libertarian, and Jill Stein, the green birthday celebration nominee, Mrs. Clinton's lead narrows to four points, according to the survey.

Mrs. Clinton's talents in the state owes generally to her electricity with Hispanic voters, a lot of whom have shunned Mr. Trump over his challenging-line positions on immigration. A spokeswoman for Mr. Trump's crusade did not reply to an inquiry about the candidate's organizational footprint in Florida. Mr. Trump ha s spent considerable time within the state — campaigning and in any other case — keeping courtroom at his Mar-a-Lago property in Palm seashore and calling Florida his 2d home.

But Mrs. Clinton has taken care to shower the state with attention as smartly. When she announced Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia as her operating mate last month, both made their debut in Miami, with Mr. Kaine frequently slipping into Spanish.