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'We Are Better Than That': Clinton Sees An Opening In Voters Turned Off By Trump 1

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Here are a couple of bits of perspective on the presidential campaign. One is that Donald Trump's campaign imploded 3 a couple of times before his most recent implosion 4 and came back. Here's the other perspective, though - his latest trouble, including a damaging video, comes very late. Hillary Clinton sees much opportunity, as NPR's Tamara Keith reports.

TAMARA KEITH, BYLINE 5: Coming off an intense and ugly debate, Hillary Clinton had a message for young voters gathered at Wayne State University in Detroit - don't let it all get you down.

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HILLARY CLINTON: I know there's been a lot of negativity, and it's easy to get cynical 6 about politics, but I'll tell you what - that's what the other side wants you to feel. They want you to just say, well, I'm not going to vote because, you know, it's so nasty. That's the main reason to vote.

KEITH: As the Clinton campaign sees it, this is a moment to win over people who maybe never would have considered voting for a Democrat 7 but who have been shaken by the Trump tape and his locker-room-talk defense 8 of describing himself groping women. The campaign is out with four new ads airing in swing states, all featuring testimonials from Republicans.

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JENNIFER KOHN: I'm a Republican, but this election is so much bigger than party. My son, Max, can't live in Trump world, so I'm crossing party lines and voting for Hillary.

KEITH: One of them features Jennifer Kohn, the mother of a son with autism.

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KOHN: I want to be able to tell my kids that I did the right thing when it really mattered.

KEITH: Since the start of her general election campaign, Clinton has portrayed 9 the race against Donald Trump as more than just another partisan 10 battle. And in Columbus, Ohio, last night, speaking to her biggest crowd of the entire campaign, Clinton presented it as a moral choice.

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CLINTON: It may be who he is, but this election is our chance to show who we are. We are better than that. We are bigger than that.

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CLINTON: And I want to send a message to every boy and girl, every man and woman in our country, indeed, to the entire world that that is not who America is.

KEITH: With Election Day exactly four weeks away, Donald Trump is playing to his base. His debate performance, freewheeling speeches and tweets taunting 11 establishment Republicans are all aimed at his most devoted 12 supporters. But that could create an opening for Hillary Clinton to expand her support to independents and even Republicans. And now it seems she's trying not just to win, but to win more convincingly than she may have thought was possible even a few days ago. Tamara Keith, NPR News, Detroit.