Obama heads to the West aiming to boost Democrats’ prospects
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President Barack Obama waves from the top of the steps of Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Md., Sunday, Oct. 23, 2016. Obama is heading to Nevada to boost Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and help Democrats in their bid to retake control of the Senate.
WASHINGTON >> President Barack Obama was looking to boost Hillary Clinton’s prospects and help Democrats in their bid to retake Senate control, scheduling a campaign stop Sunday in tightly contested Nevada before headlining party fundraisers in California.
Obama’s recent itinerary has focused on competitive White House states that also have close Senate races. In Nevada, the president is trying to help Democrats retain the seat of the Senate’s top Democrat, Harry Reid, who is serving out his fifth term before retiring.
The president was scheduled to speak at a rally at a Las Vegas-area high school for Clinton and Senate candidate Catherine Cortez Masto, a former state attorney general whose opponent is GOP Rep. Joe Heck.
Late Sunday, Obama planned to speak at an event in San Diego to benefit the organization that leads party efforts to election Democrats to the House. His schedule included fundraisers in Los Angeles on Monday and Tuesday.
Polls indicate that the presidential and Senate races in Nevada are extremely tight. Reid’s seat is considered the only one Republicans could reasonably flip to their side this election. Outside groups have spent tens of millions of dollars trying to influence the outcome.
Heck, now in his third House term, is trying to distance himself from GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump. Two weeks ago, Heck said: “I cannot, in good conscience, continue to support him nor can I vote for Hillary Clinton.”
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But Democrats are calling it too little, too late. Cortez Masto said in the recent Senate debate, “Donald Trump’s ship is sinking, and Congressman Heck is scurrying off it.”
Heck was one of the first GOP candidates to withdraw his backing from Trump after a recently released video showed Trump making sexually inappropriate comments about women back in 2005. Heck’s decision could help him appeal to moderate voters, but he risks alienating some of Trump’s ardent supporters.
Obama is working to tie Republican candidates to Trump every chance he gets. “I mean, I know that some of them now are walking away. But why did it take you this long?” Obama said during a speech in Miami this past week when he criticized Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla.
Democrats need to pick up five seats to gain the majority in the Senate, or four if they hang onto control of the White House. The vice president casts tie-breaking votes in the Senate.
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Mr. “Lewdness’ himself President Obama has become sooooo Toxic! No one wants to touch him! So ,what i would recommend is,that he stops campaigning and do the job he was elected to do…Cripes,even though you have only three more months. The whole world is in a mess,Just get to work and your job!
Thank you, Thank you, This duse has no business campaigning for Illary, that’s not what he was elected for.
Hillary Clinton Resume:
Lying and Attacking Catholics
Lying & making Countries Pay to Play
Lying & Running Secret Arms to Libya
Lying & Threatening to Drone Julian Assange
Lying and Abusing the Clinton Foundation for Profit
Lying and Abusing Power as Secretary of State
Lying & Rigging the DNC Nomination
Lying & having a illegal Private Server
Lying and Deleting Classified / Top Secret E-mails
Lying & Profiting Millions from Russia on Uranium
Lying and Dozen’s of People Dying
Lying & Never Dodging Sniper Fire
Lying & Enabling Her Rapist / Cheating Husband
Lying & Saying Chelsea was jogging around the WTC on 911
Lying on the Benghazi Committee & Letting 4 Americans Die
Lying & Her & her Husband looting the White House
Lying and Profiting from Filegate
Lying and taking $ from Chingate
Lying and taking $ from Pardongate
Lying and taking $ from Travelgate
Lying about Watergate & being Fired
Lying & having Vince Foster Killed
Lying and Defending a Child Rapist
Lying and Concealing Rose Law Firm Billing RECORDS
No More Clinton’s !!!
TRUMP / PENCE 2016!!!
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news for you, but no matter how many times you cut and paste that, it’s not going to help. Mr. Trump is losing, and badly. It looks like Mrs. Clinton will win by more than 160 electoral votes.
The goal is to humiliate Mr. Trump into eternal silence.
Mr. Obama has a very high approval rating and he is the most sought after person to assist in Democratic down ballot campaigns.
Do you ever know what you’re talking about? The correct answer is no!
Little Barry Hussein rode the affirmative action elevator to the top floor. The guilty whites in the media, perpetually angry progressives and gullible bleeding heart liberals took an oath of loyalty to Barry Hussein even though he no actual accomplishments to speak of. His resume consisted of an Ivy League education, some rabble rousing in Chicago and a political record devoid of anything noteworthy. Since he took up residence in the oval office he has wrecked health care, turned the citizenry against law enforcement, totally screwed up international relations (with the help of Waldo Clinton), demoralized a once great military, brought economic growth to a halt, politicized the DoJ, FBI, DoD, EPA, and run up a national debt that threatens the country’s survival. It’s going to take a man with a record of accomplishment to fix repair the damage. That’s why Trump is the only logical choice.
And what elevator did you ride to the service basement?
So toxic? How so? Seems like the Donald is the one who is toxic?
“Toxic”.Boots did you see the Lewdness Video of Obama? Showing his erection to the CNN reporters?It’s on Youtube! It’s at 2 million+ viewers. It amazes me that you can give this sicko a free pass and not Donald Trump! Oh btw The Donald is up 1 point on Hillary and gaining!
….so what Boots? Does the Truth hurt? Or are you just ashamed and don’t want to admit you voted for Obama? It seems like you ,Ike, and Klastri have no Gas on this sticky subject! Or maybe in denial!
Why do we (tax payers ) have to pay for AF-1 and all the SS agents Barry uses to wast time for Waldo? Glad this guy is history.
How much of our taxes will his trip cost ?? Its not official is it ? Oh !
Pardon me or else.
Poor republicans. They are about to be smashed on election day. This is what happens when you abandon your values. When deficits don’t matter and government knows what is best, why would anyone vote for them? Hillary is far from perfect, but the Donald is frankly just a joke.
What do you do when you have your adversaries on the run?
Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women.
Pretty much what has happened to the GOP all thanks to Donald Trump.
TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP- IF ANYBODY CARES ABOUT THIS COUNTRY’S FUTURE.