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By Staff and wire reports
Arizona Daily Wildcat
October 28, 1996
President Clinton and Republican vice-presidential candidate Jack Kemp will be in the Phoenix area this week as Kemp and Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole attempt to overcome a 20-point deficit in the latest polls.Kemp and his wife, Joanne Kemp, arrived in Phoenix last night and will make a campaign address at the Lakes Club of Sun City today at 9:30 a.m.
Clinton is expected to arrive in Arizona Wednesday night and speak at a public rally at Arizona State University in Tempe Thursday at 9:30 a.m.
The president hit the campaign trail yesterday after announcing the opening of a breast cancer World Wide Web page and an initiative to redirect $30 million to research into the genetic basis of breast cancer.
Clinton called it a step "to bring us closer to a cure and to improve the lives of those who do survive."
Clinton stopped in Virginia and Tennessee and will travel to Missouri, Minnesota, Illinois, Ohio and Pennsylvania before returning to the White House Tuesday night. He will then begin a non-stop campaign trip Wednesday, leading up to the Nov. 5 election.
Meanwhile, Dole was in San Jose, Calif. yesterday where he continued to question Clinton's integrity while calling for an end to affirmative action.
Immigration was the theme of Dole's stop at the Van Lang Day Vietnamese American festival, which launched Day Two of the candidate's California swing. Dole followed his critique of the Clinton administration's ethics with a brief assessment of the preside nt's immigration policies.
Dole also blasted affirmative action in the state where a referendum is on the November ballot to end race- and sex-based preferences in public hiring, contracting and education.
"Quotas, set-asides and other preferences that discriminate by race or ethnicity are simply wrong in America. They're absolutely wrong and violate the principles of our Constitution," Dole said.
"In America, what counts is merit and character - character does count," he said.
From San Jose, Dole went to Sacramento, then to San Diego. Aides said he was also considering an election-eve blitz through the state, which carries 54 electoral votes - the election's biggest prize. Today, Dole is expected to travel to the California cit ies of Carlsbad, Anaheim, Seal Beach and Long Beach.
Reform Party candidate Ross Perot appeared on NBC's "Meet the Press" yesterday, vowing once again not to quit the presidential race.
"I am urging them (the American people) to vote for us, not for anybody else," he said.
While not endorsing Dole, he said Americans would prefer Dole as the nation's military leader. "The other candidate has no experience in military or in combat," he said of Clinton.
The latest USA Today/CNN/Gallup Poll results show Clinton/Gore with 54 percent support, Dole/Kemp with 34 percent, and Perot with 7 percent.
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