Clinton, Obama arrive in uptown Charlotte as presidential race heats up in NC

[riversedge]

Source: charlotteobserer



Clinton, Obama arrive in uptown Charlotte as presidential race heats up in NC





Hillary Clinton and President Obama are heading to a rally uptown

The FBI director announced Tuesday that they’re not recommending charges against Clinton in email probehttp://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/election/wwr74m/picture87731272/ALTERNATES/FREE_640/Cmn1kykUkAEtEGi



Hillary Clinton and President Obama arriving in Charlotte at the city’s airport. Jim Morrill

By Ely Portillo

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Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee, and Obama arrived by motorcade uptown, where they plan to hold a rally shortly at the Charlotte Convention Center. It’s a big day for Clinton: In addition to her first joint appearance on the campaign trail with Obama, FBI Director James Comey announced Tuesday morning that his agency won’t recommend Clinton face charges in the long-running probe into her use of a private email server.

By early afternoon, long lines snaked around the convention center and down Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, as hundreds of people waited to enter the rally.

With North Carolina potentially a crucial swing state this year – Obama won its 15 electoral votes in 2008 and Republican Mitt Romney clinched the state in 2012 – it’s not just Democrats visiting. Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump is also planning to hold a 7 p.m. rally in Raleigh on Tuesday.

And state politics are wrapped up in the campaign stops as well. Democratic gubernatorial candidate Roy Cooper, the state attorney general vying to unseat Gov. Pat McCrory, is appearing with Clinton and Obama, as is Democratic Senate candidate Deborah Ross, locked in a fight with Sen. Richard Burr for his seat this fall. On the Republican side, Burr and McCrory have both said they won’t be able to appear with Trump, citing prior commitments.................

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[George II]

1. It was great watching them come out together from back stage. He, and she, continue to make history!

[MynameisBlarney]

2. My hometown!

Wish I was there right now.

[OnDoutside]

3. LOVIN' IT !!!! A bad start to the day but ending in Stellar Style !

[greymattermom]

4. So WHY WHY WHY

is he not wearing his wedding ring?

[dhill926]

7. well....clearly, he and Hillary have been...

conducting a secret affair for years. It will all come out soon...

[calimary]

5. Just RIPPINGLY good!

They were both outstanding today!

[Odin2005]

6. The Right in NC is still enraged that Obama won in 2008.

I don't live there but based on what I have heard from people who live down there a lot of the reactionary BS going on in NC in recent years is because of reactionary rural folks pissed off at all the educated liberal "carpetbaggers" moving to Raleigh and Ashville.

[Drunken Irishman]

9. Woulda won it in 2012 but they kinda figured it would go Romney and pulled back late.

[brooklynite]

8. Remember when Clinton and Obama hated each other?

...and Obama only made her Sec of State because he wanted her endorsement?

I don't, but I recall hearing that somewhere...

[Ford_Prefect]

10. They are going to need solid policy, and their A game-not just "beat Trump" sloganeering to do it.

We North Carolina Democrats saw this act before in 2008 and 2012. Lots of "it feels good to be a democrat" attitude without substantive policy to make it happen. The DOJ and the DNC ignored what's gone on in NC for 6 years before Loretta Lynch was appointed. Many here feel that only changed because the election is coming again.

Hillary needs to do more than wave Trump and HB2 in our faces. She needs to do a lot more than wave the good ole party flag to rally around. We need genuine commitment to constructive and solid policy on protecting everyone's right to Vote NOW, on funding and expanding education, on income inequality and minimum wage, on protecting environment, water, and air quality, on protecting and expanding Social Security, and Disability services. We need to have appropriate, thorough and transparent regulation of the investment banks that call NC and New York home. We need clearly defined goals for foreign policy that go well beyond the permanent war on terror and deal with the underlying issues of oil, economics, food and environment which are the driving forces behind it.

We need a lot more than the usual party line. It won't be worth showing up if we don't get that. We've had it for more than 8 years and are through with that song and dance. I've been a NC Democrat for 36 years and damn it if we aren't due for more from Washington and the party alike.

You want NC democrats to get out and vote you'd better do more than kiss babies, eat Barbecue and point out how far You (we) have come. We're still under the thumb of the next worst State Government to Kansas. If you can't help us do something about that don't ask for our help with your little problems. We've got our own to settle first if we're going to be around long enough to help more with yours.

[riversedge]

11. Suggest you do some research and see how her policies help working class in NC

[Ford_Prefect]

12. What will her foreign policy do to protect NC soldiers and their families here at home?

How will encouraging widespread fracking protect water and air quality here in NC?