clinton campaign manager robby mook said he was "grateful" that the recent clinton email situation has been resolved. | ap photo by louis nelson 11/07/16 09:52 am est hillary clinton<u+2019>s campaign manager said monday morning that the announcement a day earlier from fbi director james comey reasserting that the former secretary of state should not face criminal charges over her long-running email scandal will not have an impact on the results of tuesday<u+2019>s election. but that doesn<u+2019>t mean he wasn<u+2019>t relieved to hear it. story continued below <u+201c>you know, we are grateful that this matter is resolved now,<u+201d> robby mook said on <u+201c>cbs this morning<u+201d> when asked if comey<u+2019>s announcement would affect the campaign<u+2019>s results so close to election day. <u+201c>we found it very puzzling, as you know, when director comey first brought this up a week ago. i don't know why they couldn't have resolved this behind the scenes and avoided all of this ruckus. it's over now. we're in the closing argument.<u+201d> the fbi director dropped a bombshell on the white house race late last month when he wrote a letter to the republican committee chairs in the house of representatives to announce that the bureau was examining potentially fresh evidence related to its investigation of the personal email server clinton maintained as secretary of state. that announcement, decried by members of both parties as so vague as to invite speculation, handed donald trump and his surrogates a powerful rhetorical hammer with which to attack clinton in the campaign<u+2019>s final days. but comey<u+2019>s announcement on sunday that the fbi had not changed its conclusion that clinton should not face charges for her email practices while at the state department undercut that argument for trump<u+2019>s campaign, pushing the gop nominee back to his regular argument that the system is rigged in favor of clinton and against the everyday americans he claims to represent. the former secretary of state<u+2019>s team, for its part, has eased off of its attacks on comey and the fbi. mook said clinton and her top surrogates would spend the campaign<u+2019>s remaining hours on the stump in states where the majority of ballots are case on election day as opposed to in early voting, places like michigan, ohio, pennsylvania and minnesota. he also said that the campaign<u+2019>s internal information contradicts public data showing that african-american voter turnout is lower this year than in the past two elections, when president barack obama was at the top of the democratic ticket. in florida, mook said, black voters are turning out at a higher rate than they did in 2012, evidence of clinton<u+2019>s regular effort to reach out to that community with positions on criminal justice reform and systematic racism. and while trump<u+2019>s campaign has claimed an edge in voter enthusiasm, mook said clinton<u+2019>s campaign sees the momentum on its side. voter turnout is up, especially among latinos and asian-americans in swing states like florida and north carolina, mook said, numbers that favor the former secretary of state. still, he was unprepared to predict a victory in florida or ohio and urged clinton<u+2019>s supporters to make sure they vote. <u+201c>it's so important that all of our supporters turn out. but we think across the country, through our efforts to build that ground game, register people to vote and turn them out, that we have established a lead in some states that donald trump can't overcome,<u+201d> he said. <u+201c>ohio is actually an interesting case, because about two-thirds of the voters vote on election day, so i think it's way too early to tell there. but again, our supporters need to turn out absolutely everywhere. we think that<u+2019>s vital and we<u+2019>re not going to count our chickens before they<u+2019>re hatched.<u+201d> by bill scher by thomas wright by joshua zeitz by jack shafer
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