Clinton campaign expects to match Obama’s African-American turnout

The Hillary Clinton campaign is confident it can match the support President Obama got from African-American voters in 2008 and 2012. 

{mosads}”All the way through the primaries, African-American voters came out for Hillary Clinton,” Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday. 

“We expect that again now. And we’re working very hard to make sure that happens. And she is campaigning across the country in African-American communities.”

Early-voting numbers have shown African-American turnout failing to meet expectations. But the Clinton campaign has said it believes it can close that gap by Election Day. 

“We’ve had the president out for us. You know, you’re comparing us against the first African-American president running for reelection. But we think we can hit those numbers. And the president’s helping us do that.”

But the Democratic nominee’s campaign is also confident it can bring out Hispanic voters in states like Florida and Nevada. 

“We’ve built a different kind of coalition and a bigger coalition,” Podesta said. 

The campaign is also seeing college-educated women and Asian-Americans voting for Clinton in higher numbers. 

“We’re feeling very solid going into this last weekend. But there’s a tremendous amount of work to do.”