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Showing Original Post only (View all)Gabby Giffords endorses Toomey over McGinty in tight PA senate race. [View all]
"PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) As he seeks re-election to his U.S. Senate seat this November, Pennsylvanias Pat Toomey can make an unusual claim. He is the sole Republican nationwide running with the endorsement of top U.S. gun control advocates Gabby Giffords and Michael Bloomberg.
That pair of endorsements could give the first-term senator an edge over Democratic challenger Katie McGinty, a former environmental official in the White House and the Pennsylvania governors office. The race is one of a handful of close contests on Nov. 8 that could determine whether Republicans, currently with a 54-46 majority, maintain control of the Senate.
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Giffords has also endorsed Illinois Senator Mark Kirk, another Republican running for re-election, though Bloomberg has not weighed in on that race."
In Pennsylvania Senate race, unfamiliar battle lines on gun rights
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File this under the "with friends like these" and "missing the forest for the trees" categories - especially the PA race, which is very close.
Hey Gabby, wouldn't Hillary being elected with a Dem senate majority lead to more gun control legislation than a GOP senate? Democrats ARE the party of gun control after all, remember? And the GOP is the party of the NRA, remember?
This kind of stupidity is what's wrong with our side, in a nutshell.
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Gabby Giffords endorses Toomey over McGinty in tight PA senate race. [View all]
radius777
Sep 2016
OP
That is simply staggering. Better that she didn't endorse at all. Incredible.
OnDoutside
Sep 2016
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