With polls showing him trailing, Trump is frantically trying to pave the way for an upset win with stops in Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, and Michigan.
"We're just looking at maximizing our turnout operation everywhere and working in coordination, obviously, with other candidates in both the House and the Senate and governorships. But I'm really, I'm really excited about having a chance to make all these stops today," Clinton said before taking off for her Pittsburgh rally.
The highlight of her schedule will be an evening rally on Independence Mall in Philadelphia featuring President Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, President Bill Clinton, Chelsea Clinton and musicians Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi. She also will air a two-minute television ad that will air on NBC and CBS on Monday evening.
The final NBC News battleground map shows the Democratic nominee with a comfortable lead over Trump, netting 274 electoral votes. Trump garners 170 with 94 votes in the toss up column.
And the former secretary of state got more good news on Sunday, when FBI Director James Comey sent a letter to lawmakers saying a review of newly discovered emails had not changed the FBI's previous conclusion that Clinton is not guilty of criminal wrongdoing.
But the closing days of the campaign have been filled with surprises in how both candidates have spent their time and resources. The final national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll of the 2016 presidential race shows a tightening race with Clinton hanging on to a four-point lead. She had an 11-point edge in the poll last month following the release of a 2005 tape where Trump talks about groping women.
Clinton's Allendale, Michigan event Monday will mark the second time in recent days she has visited the Great Lakes State that was once thought to be solidly in her corner. But polling in the state has shown Clinton's lead shrinking.
Trump also continues to push in Michigan with a joint rally with Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence in Grand Rapids. On Sunday, he made a surprising stop in Minnesota, where polling shows Clinton with a sizable lead.
"If I don't win Minnesota, I'm going to look real bad to those pundits I don't respect very much," Trump said at the airport hangar rally.
Pence made another Minnesota stop Monday morning, before heading to Michigan, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire.
Clinton's deep bench of surrogates will also continue to be deployed throughout the country on Monday. President Obama holds events in Michigan and New Hampshire, while Vice President Joe Biden makes two stops in Florida. Bill Clinton campaigns in North Carolina and former vice president and Democratic nominee Al Gore holds two events in Colorado.
Trump's most high-profile surrogate on the trail Monday will be Sarah Palin, who campaigns in North Carolina.
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