OMAHA -- Hillary Clinton brought her presidential campaign to red state Nebraska on Monday, focusing like a laser on metropolitan Omaha's 2nd Congressional District presidential electoral vote.
Clinton targeted economic growth that will create new jobs and increase income for middle-class Americans, pointing especially to the need for infrastructure construction and repair.
Nebraska, she said, would benefit from investment in clean energy and expansion of broadband into unserved rural areas.
"The economy is not working the way it should for everyone," Clinton said, recreating some of the message she delivered to the Democratic National Convention last week when she formally accepted her party's presidential nomination.
Clinton's appearance attracted several thousand supporters to a raucous rally in the gym at Omaha North High School, which was decked out in red, white and blue.Â
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Joining her at the podium was iconic Omaha investor Warren Buffett, who took on Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, billionaire to billionaire.
Challenging Trump to release his income tax documents, Buffett said: "You're only afraid if you have something to be afraid of."
Staring at the audience, Buffett said, "he's afraid because of you."
Referring to Trump's recent criticism of the Muslim parents of a U.S. soldier who was killed in Iraq after the father had chastised Trump for his anti-Muslim rhetoric, Buffett invoked the rebuke aimed at the late Sen. Joseph McCarthy by Boston attorney Joseph Welch in 1954.
"I ask Donald Trump: Have you no sense of decency, sir?"
Buffett scoffed at Trump's suggestion that he too has made sacrifices in accumulating his wealth.
"I have made money," Buffett said. "I have made no sacrifices."
Nebraska's distinctive system of awarding three of its five electoral votes to the presidential winner in each of the state's congressional districts was the lure that attracted Clinton to Omaha on a day when she also would campaign in Virginia and Colorado, both of them battleground states.
President Barack Obama won the Omaha district electoral vote in 2008.
If she wins the congressional district this time with a high voter turnout and is elected president in November, Clinton said, she'll return to dance in the streets of Omaha with Buffett.
During an interview inside the gym prior to Clinton's arrival, the campaign's national political director, Amanda Renteria, said the campaign is targeting the diversity of the 2nd District, which contains large Latino and African-American populations.
Labor, youth and women also are important components of Clinton's support, she said.
"All groups are important, but there are key demographics," Renteria said.
"Our strategy leaves no one off the table."
Trump, she said, "has energized the Latino community for generations" with his sharp words about immigration and immigrants.
The campaign is focusing on "the job message" with proposals for the largest job creation program since World War II, Renteria said, including an early emphasis on infrastructure construction and repair.
In Nebraska, Renteria said, 2,700 bridges need repair and 25 percent of the population does not have access to broadband service.
Former Sen. Ben Nelson praised Clinton in brief remarks prior to her appearance.
"I know she has the skills, the experience, the empathy and the decency to be the next president," Nelson said.