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ANDREWHARNIK—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton responds to a reporters question a er taking a tour of Mojave Electric Company in Las Vegas on Thursday. ByLisaLererand Catherine Lucey The Associated Press LAS VEGAS Hopingtocap- italize on the criticism bat- tering Donald Trump, Hill- ary Clinton has begun por- traying support for her candidacy as a patriotic duty of voters. She's broad- ening her message and ap- pealing directly to Republi- cans to keep him out of the White House. It's a twist for a Demo- cratic presidential candi- date who has some of the highest unpopularity rat- ings in history. But aides be- lieve Trump's controversial campaign and the chaos it's caused within the Republi- can Party offers a unique opportunity. In Ohio recently, Clin- ton urged Republicans "to pick country over party." She told several thousand at a union hall in Las Vegas on Thursday, "I want to be the president for all Amer- icans. Democrats, Republi- cans independents. We're going to pull America to- gether again." Clinton had always planned to speak to a broader audience during the general election cam- paign, a standard move for presidential candidates af- ter their party conventions. But the state of Trump's campaign and his decision to stick with his inflamma- tory primary message has prompted her to intensify her focus across party lines. Democrats, including President Barack Obama, have begun arguing that Trump poses a unique dan- ger to democracy. That's an argument they did not make against former Mas- sachusetts Gov. Mitt Rom- ney or Arizona Sen. John McCain, the past two GOP presidential nominees. As she's campaigned across the country this week, Clinton has framed the election as a choice be- tween economic growth and "demagoguery" and "insults." And she's mak- ing a point of acknowl- edging the deep economic anxiety that helped fuel Trump's rise in the pri- mary polls. "I know people are angry and frustrated," she said in a speech on a factory floor in Hatfield, Pennsylvania. "I'm not going into this with some kind of rose col- ored glasses." A small team is working on Republican outreach at Clinton's campaign head- quarters in Brooklyn, largely focused on fielding calls from Republicans in- terested in giving money and helping with fundrais- ing. A more formal effort will launch soon, focusing on wooing uneasy GOP vot- ers at the national and state level. Clinton wooing GOP 2016 CAMPAIGN By Steve Peoples and Jill Colvin The Associated Press PORTLAND, MAINE Back on the defensive, Donald Trump's campaign chief acknowledged conflict inside Trump Tower on Thursday as anxious Re- publicans struggled to shift voters' attention to Hillary Clinton's record on foreign policy. The feud between the GOP's presidential nom- inee and House Speaker Paul Ryan continued to overshadow fresh attacks on Clinton, underscoring the rising concerns from party leaders over the New York billionaire's unortho- dox candidacy and its im- pact on the future of the Republican Party. Trump refused for an- other day to endorse the Republican speaker, though he said Ryan is "a good guy, actually." Ryan, meanwhile, pub- licly declared his support for Trump, but said such en- dorsements aren't "blank checks" and pledged to speak out against the busi- nessman's divisive positions if necessary. Most recently, that means Trump's sus- tained criticism of an Amer- ican Muslim family whose son, U.S. Army Capt. Huma- yunKhan,waskilledinIraq. "I don't like doing this," Ryan told a Wisconsin ra- dio station. "I don't want to do this, but I will do this because I feel I have to in order to defend Republi- cans, and our principles, so that people don't make the mistake of thinking we think like that." Campaign chairman Paul Manafort insisted Trump would work with Ryan if elected, but he conceded the endorsement question had sparked ten- sion inside Trump's New York campaign headquar- ters. The day before, vice presidential nominee Mike Pence broke with Trump and endorsed Ryan. "There's a conflict within the Trump campaign," Manafort told ABC's "Good Morning America." "We've sort of had a rule of not get- ting involved in primaries because it's usually not a good situation for the pres- idential candidate." Facing Maine voters later in the day, Trump said he gave Pence permission to endorse Ryan. "I say, 'Mike, you like him? Yes. Go ahead and do it, 100 percent,'" Trump recalled of his conversa- tion the day before, inter- rupting his audience when they began to boo Ryan. "Paul Ryan's a good guy, actually," Trump added. As Republican infighting dominated the 2016 presi- dential race for another day, Trump and his Re- publican allies lashed out at the Democratic presi- dential nominee's foreign policy record. Specifically, they con- tended that Clinton was re- sponsible for negotiations that led to a $400 million U.S. payment to Iran ear- lier in the year. Trump and some other Republicans have described the money as ransom payment for four Americans detained in Iran days before the money was delivered. "It's so sad, so disgust- ing," Trump said of the payment as he campaigned in Maine. As Trump used the is- sue to assail Clinton, he faced new questions about his description Wednes- day, and again on Thurs- day, of video he suggested was taken by Iranian forces removing bags of money from a plane. It's unclear what footage Trump was referring to. Several senior U.S. offi- cials involved in the Iran negotiations said they weren't aware of any such video. Trump's campaign said the GOP nominee had not seen a tape as part of any security briefing. In an email, a cam- paign spokeswoman said Trump was simply refer- ring to video aired on tele- vision this week, although no such footage of payment to Iranians was shown. At the same time, Clinton criticized Trump for out- sourcing at his companies the very jobs he's promising to create back home. Meanwhile, Trump's missteps have caused wid- ening ripples of anxiety among Republican officials with the election just three months away. Concerned congressio- nal Republicans are asking about Trump "hourly and daily," said Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., a leading Trump emissary on Capi- tol Hill. "What the heck's going on? Why aren't we focused here? ... Why are we caught up in these sideshows?" Hunter asked, describing the questions raised by his colleagues. Hunter said he's not concerned: "It is what it is. There's no reassuring. Trump is Trump." 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