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November 4, 2013

Obama Campaigns for McAuliffe in Virginia Race 
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On Sunday, President Obama campaigned in Virginia for Democratic
candidate Terry Mc Auliffe ahead of Tuesday's gubernatorial election. Mc
Auliffe is squaring off against Republican Ken Cuccinelli, Virginia's
attorney general. In his remarks, Obama seized on the impact of the
recent government shutdown.

President Obama: "You've seen an extreme faction of the Republican Party
that has shown again and again and again that they are willing to hijack
the entire party and the country and the economy and grind progress to
an absolute halt if they don't get a 100 percent of what they want. This
isn't just speculation, we just saw it last month. Here in Virginia, you
felt the pain of the first government shutdown in 17 years and there
aren't lots of states that felt more of the pain than folks right here
in Virginia."

 

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