News for the Week of 9/13 - 9/20

Author: Payden H Volbrecht
Source: The Virginian Pilot

September 9th 2016 Hilary Clinton's Running Mate, Tim Kaine, gave a speech at the Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. It was a 22 minute speech that highlighted a few of the more debated and recent issues that have been brought up about the two front runners of this election, Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton. The most notable criticisms that Kaine gave towards Republican Candidates was to criticize them for their support of the Russian President Vladimir Putin. In addition to also calling Trump out for criticizing military service members, their families and the Pentagon.

With regards to Hilary Clinton, Kaine spoke about her military policies specifically the US Navy. Kaine told the crowed that Hillary Clinton did not support automatic budget cuts which would limit the funding for many parts of the military. He continued on in support of Clinton by reassuring the audience that she acknowledges her mistake of combining her work email with her personal email and that she learned from this mistake and is striving to do better in the future.

After the speech Kaine answered a few questions for The Virginian Pilot about his next step in the campaign process. Moving forward Kaine is preparing for his debate with the Republican Running Mate, Mike Pence, the 4th of October and continuing to spread Hillary's message to citizens of the USA.

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Author: Carter A James
Source: Fairfax City Patch

On Friday the 16th at George Mason University, First Lady Michelle Obama spoke at a Hillary Clinton event. It's the first time she has spoken on Hillary's behalf since the Democratic National Convention in July. Michelle avoided talking about the Republican candidate Donald Trump by name but talked about the negativity surrounding the campaign.

Michelle talked about the important characteristics a president needs to have that she believes Hillary does have, that it's about the poise of the candidate, not about being the loudest. Lastly, Obama encouraged the students in attendance heavily to register to vote and mentioned that Barack only won Virginia by 150,000 votes in 2012. The latest poll in Virginia as of Thursday has Hillary up by 3 points.

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