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Bush Continues to Blitz Swing States

Aired October 28, 2000 - 8:08 p.m. ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

CANDY CROWLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): This is Candy Crowley with the Bush campaign.

Saturday the Bush-Cheney team played before an adoring, roaring crowd on a baseball field in Grand Chute, Wisconsin.

GOV. GEORGE W. BUSH (R-TX), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Yes, we're coming down the stretch and I got to tell you our team feels great.

CROWLEY: These rallies, with their pulsating music, balloons, fireworks and pom-poms are all about excitement, getting your ground troops high enough to stuff envelopes, ring the doorbells, bring friends to the polls.

Bush's standard speech is a potpourri of his core issues: Social Security, welfare and education reform, a stronger military, and leadership.

BUSH: This best allies a family will have is a president who behaves responsibly in office.

CROWLEY: If the pressure of a close race and the endless miles of the final days are wearing on him, Bush hides it well. He is on message, loose, upbeat and seems to be having some fun.

GORE: He is so confident about his abilities he claimed he invented the Internet. But if he was so smart, how come all the Internet addresses start with "W."? Not only one "W," but three "W"s.

CROWLEY: The "W" thing has taken hold. It's always been on the signs and the buttons, but now, no paraphernalia needed, just a signal from the crowd to the candidate, from the candidate to the crowd.

Preferring to cover twice the territory, George Bush and Dick Cheney don't often campaign together, but when they do it's a study in contrast of style.

DICK CHENEY (R), VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We must be in Wisconsin.

CROWLEY: The decidedly low-key vice presidential nominee warmed up the Wisconsin crowd with a short, serious call for a stronger military.

CHENEY: Readiness levels are down, our retention rates are down, we dramatically shrunk the size of the force, over-committed it and denied them the resources they need do that very, very important piece of business.

CROWLEY: And then came George Bush.

BUSH: I think what the secretary just said is, help is on the way.

CROWLEY: Bush flew solo from the baseball field in Wisconsin to an airport tarmac in Missouri. They are one and the same these days because every stop is a battlefield where Bush is looking for ground troops.

BUSH: I want your vote. And, as importantly, I want your help. This is a close election. Missouri is a swing state and I can't win it alone.

CROWLEY (on camera): After a one-day respite in Austin, the governor of Texas sets his sights on the West Coast, where strategists see golden opportunities in Washington, Oregon and, against current odds, even in California. From there the schedule gets hazy, but bank on a return to the Midwest. The next time the governor will see Texas is election eve.

Candy Crowley, CNN, Columbia, Missouri.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

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