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ByLisaLererandJill Colvin TheAssociatedPress WASHINGTON His presi- dential dreams increasingly in question, Donald Trump pushed his business em- pire to the center of his po- litical campaign Wednesday. Taking a break from battle- ground states, he made the case at his newest hotel that all Americans should look to his corporate record for ev- idence of how well he'd run the country. Hillary Clinton agreed, but not the way he meant it. She used campaign events in Florida to attack the GOP nominee for having "stiffed American workers," saying he built his empire with Chi- nese-manufactured steel, overseas products and la- bor from immigrants in the country illegally. "Donald Trump is the poster boy for everything wrong with our economy," she told several thousand supporters in Tampa, Flor- ida. "He refuses to pay work- ers and contractors." Trump's political aspira- tions have long been deeply intertwined with promoting his corporate goals. He an- nouncedhiscampaigninthe gildedlobbyofTrumpTower in Manhattan and has held dozens of campaign events athis ownproperties.His re- marks at his new Washing- ton hotel, which has strug- gled to fill rooms amid the controversy surrounding his presidential bid, followed a visitTuesdaytohisDoralgolf course outside Miami. "Under budget and ahead of schedule. So important. We don't hear those words so often, but you will," said Trump, linking the hotel re- development — just blocks from the White House — to hispromisedperformanceas president. "Today is a meta- phor for what we can accom- plish for this country." Though the GOP nominee focused his remarks on his political message, the event was heavy with marketing, too. Standing under glitter- ing chandeliers, top com- pany executives, including his daughter, touted the ho- tel.Andafterhisbriefspeech, Trumpandhisfamilyheaded to the hotel's grand lobby wheretheycutawideredrib- bon with golden scissors be- foreheflewtoNorthCarolina for what his campaign billed as an urban policy speech. In Charlotte, Trump un- veiled what he billed a "New Deal for black America" in frontofamostlywhitecrowd. Trump,whohasstruggledto earn the support of minority voters, bemoaned that "too many African-Americans havebeenleftbehindandun- veiled a handful of new pro- posals aimed at revitalizing impoverished urban areas. They included new tax incentives for inner cities, new micro-loans for Afri- can Americans to start com- panies and hire workers and reinvesting money from sus- pended refugee programs in inner cities. He also wants cities to be able to seek federal disaster designationstohelpthemre- build infrastructure, demol- ishabandonedbuildingsand invest in law enforcement. As Trump cut the ribbon, Clinton was slamming his business practices in Flor- ida, a state he must win to have any chance on Nov. 8. In Tampa, she was intro- duced by restaurateur Jose Andres, a naturalized U.S. citizen who pulled out of the Washington hotel to pro- test Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric. Trump and Andres arecurrentlylockedinlitiga- tion over the deal. Trump's unusual travel schedule, coming amid signs that the controversy sur- rounding his campaign has hurt his corporate brand, raises questions about whether the GOP nominee hasbeguntoturnsomeofhis focus to postelection plans. Rooms at the overhauled $212 million hotel that bears his name at Washington's Old Post Office Pavilion have been heavily discounted and smartphone data suggest fewer people are visiting his properties compared to rival venues nearby. A new Face- book live show produced by hiscampaignhasheightened speculation that he may try andoffsetanylosseswithad- vertisingrevenuefromanew a media network — a plan he denies.Trumpsupportersde- fended his strategy, blasting critics for not making as big a deal ofClinton's decision to attend an Adele concert on Tuesday night. Trump took abreakfromcampaigningto seethesingerperformduring the GOP primaries. "I can't take one hour off to cut a ribbon at one of the great hotels of the world? I mean, I think I'm entitled to it," he said, in an interview withABCNews.Hewasmore defensiveinaCNNinterview in which he called questions about his time away from swingstatecampaigning"in- sulting" and "rude." In Charlotte, Trump said that he'd wanted "to be there for my children who worked so hard." Clinton, too, has turned some of her focus to what happens after Nov. 8, though her efforts assume she wins. Deep in transition planning, she's also begun expanding the scope of her campaign to help down-ballot Democrats — her party sees an opportu- nitytowincontroloftheSen- ate and reduce its deficit in the House — and retool her campaignmessagetoempha- size unifying the country af- ter a divisive race. "What Trump has done is tomakeitpossibleforpeople who had racist, sexist and all kinds of prejudices and big- otry to put them right out there," Clinton said on "The Breakfast Club," a syndi- cated radio show based in New York City. "I'm not go- ingtobeabletowaveamagic wand and change every- body's thoughts." Wednesdaywasthecandi- date's 69th birthday, a mile- stone she started celebrating a day early on Univision's en- tertainment news show "El Gordo y La Flaca," where she was feted with a bottle of te- quilaandalargecakefeatur- ing her face. CAMPAIGN 2016 Trump: I'll run America like my business. Clinton: Let's not MANUELBALCECENETA—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Donald Trump, together with his family, from le , Eric Trump, Melania Trump and Tiffany Trump, waves part of a ribbon a er cutting the ribbon during the grand opening of Trump International Hotel in Washington, on Wednesday. By Andrew Taylor The Associated Press WASHINGTON AlliesofHill- ary Clinton felt threatened by the power of Sen. Bernie Sanders'candidacyandwon- deredaboutgettingsomesig- nalofsupportfromPresident Barack Obama in the heat of the Democratic primaries, accordingtothelatestemails in a hacked trove from Clin- ton campaign chairman John Podesta. Ahead of the Illinois pri- mary in March, liberal oper- ativeNeeraTandenaskedPo- desta, who formerly worked on Obama's transition in 2008, if the president could give any kind of indication that he was supporting Clin- ton over Sanders. Tanden asked Podesta whether Obama could "even hint of support of Hillary be- fore Tuesday?" Obama stayed officially neutral in the primaries un- til Clinton clinched the nom- ination in June. Tanden wrote: "Maybe they don't want to do this, but the stakes are pretty damn high in this election for him." The email exchange was containedinmorethan1,500 emails released Wednesday by the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks. The notes were stolen from the email ac- count of Podesta as part of a series of high-profile com- puter hacks of Democratic targets that U.S. intelligence officials say were orches- trated by Russia, with the intent to influence the Nov. 8 election. Russia has denied the allegations. In a separate June 2015 email, the Clinton campaign worriedthatsomestateaffil- iatesofthenation'slargestla- bor union, the National Ed- ucation Association, were set to endorse Sanders even though the national union had not yet made an en- dorsement. On June 22, 2015, Clinton's labor out- reachdirectorNikkiBudzin- ski emailed other campaign officials to let them know "NEA is concerned their VT affiliate could do a Tuesday (next week) recommenda- tion of endorsement (with potential press release). This is not confirmed. The bigger concern is that RI and MA might go with VT as well." CarriePugh,theNEA'spo- litical director, had similar concerns and shared them with Clinton campaign of- ficials. Budzinski said the move in Vermont "doesn't pose se- rious concern for the NEA overall endorsement" but called it an "optics problem" coming beforeamajormeet- ing of NEA representatives. "IamworkingwithCarrie Pugh on options to head this off," Budzinski wrote. The NEA ultimately en- dorsed Clinton in Octo- ber 2015 despite some com- plaints that leaders hadn't taken Sanders seriously enough and should have waited. In an email to Pod- estainJanuary,Clintonpoll- sterStanGreenbergweighed in by urging that Clinton better position herself rela- tive to Sanders on the issue of reforming big money pol- iticsandspecialinterestgive- aways. ThememohintsthatClin- ton, a prolific fundraiser and longtime Democratic Party insider, had her doubts. "Her concern about au- thenticity and credibility on this issue is understand- able but not right," Green- berg said. "There is nothing more important politically than Clinton getting ahead of money and politics," the pollster said. "It is a pre-req- uisite for getting heard on change and government ac- tivism, for competing and beating Sanders and estab- lishing a key contrast with the Republicans." 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