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ByKenThomasand Steve Peoples The Associated Press CLEVELAND Converg- ing on Ohio within miles apart of each other, Don- ald Trump and Hillary Clinton made competing Labor Day pitches in Cleve- land on Monday, setting the stage for a critical month in their testy presidential cam- paign. Meeting with report- ers, Trump appeared to pivot away from his hard- line position on immigra- tion, saying, "I'm all about jobs now." The Republican real estate mogul said im- migrants in the country il- legally may not need to re- turn to their countries or origin to obtain legal status, appearing to contradict his past positions. Any immigrants who want full citizenship must return to their countries of origin and get in line, he told reporters. But of the millions more living in the country illegally, he would not rule out a pathway to legal status. "We're going to make that decision into the fu- ture," Trump said in his most extensive comments on immigration since last Wednesday's speech. C l i nt on p ower e d through a coughing fit at a Labor Day festival at a Cleveland park, sharply criticizing Trump's re- cent trip to Mexico as "an embarrassing inter- national incident." Un- willing to allow Trump to modify his immigra- tion stances, she said his address later that night in Arizona amounted to a "doubling down on his ab- surd plan to send a depor- tation force to round up 16 million people." "He can try to fool vot- ers into thinking somehow he's not as harsh and inhu- mane as he seems but it's too late," Clinton said. The two campaigns ar- rived in Cleveland within hours of each other, under- scoring Ohio's quadrennial role in presidential cam- paigns. No Republican has won the White House with- out carrying the state and the airport offered a vivid imagery of that crucial role. The airplanes of Trump and his running mate, Mike Pence, were parked on the tarmac as Clinton and her vice presidential pick, Tim Kaine, arrived in separate planes at the city's airport. It was a near-encounter that even forced the Trump press corps to the side of the road as Clinton's motorcade whizzed by. 2016 CAMPAIGN Clinton and Trump have a near-encounter in Ohio ANDREWHARNIK—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, accompanied by Democratic vice presidential candidate, Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., le , arrives at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport in Cleveland, Ohio, on Monday. EVAN VUCCI — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump shakes hands during a visit to Goody's Restaurant on Monday in Brook Park, Ohio. By Alan Fram The Associated Press WASHINGTON In a taste of ads to come, House Dem- ocrats have run national TV spots in which actors recount Donald Trump's derogatory remarks about immigrants, women and veterans and one asks, "How can Republican members of Congress sup- port that?" The commercials, by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, un- derscore the party's hopes for an Election Day bum- per crop of new House seats, fueled by the GOP presidential candidate's disparaging verbal as- saults and poor showing in most polls. OutnumberedbyRepub- licans 247-188 — and with two vacancies in districts they're certain to win — Democrats seem likely to bolster their ranks in No- vember. Yet gaining the 30 seats needed to capture a House majority appears elusive. Dauntingfigures Of the House's 435 seats, only around 40 from California to Maine seem clearly up for grabs, though that could change. Redistricting, along with Democrats' tendency to be concentrated in ur- ban and coastal areas, has given both parties' incum- bents such sturdy protec- tion that on Election Day 2014, just 13 of 388 law- makers seeking re-elec- tion lost. Of the 435 House members elected, 377 won by a decisive 10 percentage points or more or were un- opposed. Democrats would have to sweep 35 of the 40 com- petitive contests and lose only five for a 30-seat pickup, a significant chal- lenge. Other hurdles Democrats failed to re- cruit strong candidates in districts where they might have competed. The Democratic chal- lenger against well-fi- nanced freshman Rep. Tom MacArthur in cen- tral New Jersey, Frederick LaVergne, has reported $600 cash on hand. The party has had problems fielding candidates in the Philadelphia suburbs, east- ern Ohio, central Illinois and west of Detroit. "They haven't put seats in play they needed to put in play," said Rep. Steve Sti- vers, R-Ohio, a top member of the National Republican Congressional Committee. Democrats want to pry Republicans out of sub- urban districts where TV advertising is often ex- pensive, especially with a competitive presidential or Senate race in the state. A week of commercials can cost hundreds of thou- sands of dollars in Denver; Orlando, Florida; and Las Vegas, and can be prohibi- tively expensive for House candidates in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. GOP danger signs Republicans hold about three in four battle- ground House seats, leav- ing them more at risk. Ne- vada, Maine and Minne- sota are places where the GOP faces tough defensive fights. Thanks to strong off- year elections in 2010 and 2014, the GOP's 247 seats are its high-water mark since Herbert Hoover's presidency 86 years ago. The party holds districts in New York, New Hamp- shire and Iowa that it will struggle to retain this presidential election year, when Democratic turnout should increase. While 26 House Re- publicans were elected in 2014 in districts that backed President Barack Obama in 2012, just five Democrats serve in dis- tricts carried by 2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney. That means more Re- publicans are at a disad- vantage. Trump factor Trump is unpopular among women, minorities and college-educated vot- ers. This spells trouble for Republicans representing suburbs and districts with many Hispanic voters, and many candidates have crit- icized his remarks, though few have abandoned him outright. Freshman GOP Rep. Carlos Curbelo is fighting to survive in a South Flor- ida district that is two- thirds Hispanic. He's said he won't support Trump and has run a Spanish-lan- guage radio ad in which former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush says, "I know Carlos and I know he will con- tinue representing us with integrity in Washington." Scarce targets curb Dem hopes for House gains POLITICS By Josh Boak The Associated Press WASHINGTON THE ISSUE: More Americans are get- ting buried by student debt — causing delays in home ownership, limiting how much people can save and leaving taxpayers at risk as many loans go unpaid. The statistics look daunting. Student debt now totals around $1.26 trillion. This amounts to a stunning 350 percent increase since 2005, according to the New York Federal Reserve. Not every- one sees that surge as trou- bling. President Barack Obama's Council of Eco- nomic Advisers issued a re- port this year saying that the debt is beneficial be- cause college graduates earn more money than peo- ple with only high school degrees. But college drop-outs who borrow are increas- ingly less likely to repay their loans, as are former students at for-profit col- leges that in some cases never provided the stable careers promised in their brochures. Nor are college graduates necessarily re- paying their loans, a reflec- tion of the stagnating in- comes for many. More than 60 percent of the class of 2014 graduated with debt that averaged nearly $27,000, according to the College Board. Not all that taxpayer-backed debt is getting repaid. Out of the 43 million Americans with student debt, roughly 16 percent are in long-term default —a potential hit in excess of $100 billion that taxpayers would absorb. Studies have shown that student debt payments have led to a delay in home own- ership, as well as a decline in college savings for the bor- rowers'children—creatinga multigenerationaldebtcycle. Democrat Hillary Clin- ton hopes to curtail debt dramatically for undergrad- uates. She has modified her initial plan after talks with thepresidentialcampaignof Vermont Sen. Bernie Sand- ers, who ran on the promise of taxpayer-funded college. Clinton now proposes no tuition for students from families making less than $85,000 when they go to an in-state, public college. That threshold would rise to $125,000 by 2021. All community colleges would be tuition-free, in addition to making it easier for exist- ing borrowers to refinance at lower rates, limit repay- ments to 10 percent of in- come and forgive any re- maining college debt after 20 years. The plan would cost the federal govern- ment an estimated $500 billion over 10 years, which the Clinton campaign says would be paid for by ending tax preferences for wealth- ier Americans. Republican Donald Trump has promised a "great" student debt plan, details to come. Trump ap- pears to view student debt as inflating college costs to levels that are only worsen- ing the problem. "The colleges are view- ing the students as just a conduit" for government aid, he has said. "We are going to help the students. Maybe that doesn't fit beau- tifully within the Republi- can framework." Education debt has be- come a drag on the kinds of spending and saving that historically helped U.S. eco- nomic growth. The average college-edu- cated head of household un- der 40 owes $404 a month in student debt payments, according to an AP analy- sis of Federal Reserve data. That's slightly more than what the government says the average college-edu- cated family spends at the supermarket. An analysis of renters this year by the company Apart- ment List found that educa- tionloansmakeitmorediffi- cult to buy a home, a critical rite of passage. College-edu- cated millennials with stu- dentdebtmusttypicallysave for a full 10 years to afford a 20 percent down payment, compared with five years for those without debt. EDUCATION Student debt: Why it matters in this election Sponsoredby The Saturday Market SlowFood Shasta Cascade ® 8-12:30, every Saturday Home Depot parking lot Your community YEAR-ROUND Certified Farmers & Artisan Market LocalProduce- Always Good Eatin'! 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