Election 2019: Gabrielle Giffords to campaign in Virginia for state House and Senate candidates
RICHMOND — Former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords will campaign in Virginia two days this week for state House and Senate candidates who support stricter gun laws, an issue that gained momentum in the state after a mass shooting in Virginia Beach.
The Arizona Democrat, who launched a gun-control group after surviving an assassination attempt in 2011, will appear in Northern Virginia on Friday and in Virginia Beach on Saturday alongside some of the 40 Democrats the group is endorsing.
The Virginia Beach event will also include people who survived or lost loved ones in a May 31 mass shooting at the city’s municipal complex, where 12 people died along with the gunman.
Giffords endorsed two Northern Virginia Democrats and held a joint fundraiser for them in McLean in March. Her return signals the national interest in Virginia’s off-year elections as a potential bellwether for 2020, and the special salience of the gun-control issue in a state that has recently endured a mass shooting, said Joanna Belanger, political director for the Giffords group.
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