Embracing Lincoln, Clinton to urge nation to fix divisions

Clinton's campaign said the Democratic presidential nominee would use the backdrop of the Old State House in Springfield, Illinois, on Wednesday to discuss the importance of uniting the country and healing divisions in the nation's politics and culture.

Returning to the site of Lincoln's speech, Clinton intends to address race relations in the aftermath of the shooting deaths of five Dallas police officers who were working at a public protest over fatal police shootings of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota.

President Barack Obama launched his first presidential campaign in 2007 in a chilly outdoor rally on the steps of the Old State Capitol, echoing Lincoln's calls for unity before the Civil War.

Trump, in an interview with The Associated Press on Monday, predicted that protests against police violence that followed last week's slaying of the five police officers in Dallas "might be just the beginning for this summer."