Gabrielle Giffords Joins Hillary Clinton in South Carolina to Pay Tribute to Victims of Gun Violence
Source: nytimes
Feb.23
10:19 pm ET By Patrick Healy
Gabrielle Giffords Joins Hillary Clinton in South Carolina to Pay Tribute to Victims of Gun Violence
Hillary Clinton campaigned on Tuesday in Columbia, S.C.Credit Gabriella Demczuk for The New York Times
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A plainly confident Hillary....
Introducing the women on stage and sharing the stories about the loss of their children, Mrs. Clinton drew an “amen” from the racially mixed audience as she said, “That’s too many deaths. Too many lives cut short.”
One by one, the mothers described their relationships to Mrs. Clinton in strongly personal terms, saying that she showered attention on them when they were deep in grief and continued to check in on them as they turned their mourning into a movement, as one of them put it.
“I endorse her because she endorsed us first,” said Gwen Carr, the mother of Eric Garner,.............................
Ms. Reed-Veal drew laughter after she noted that Mrs. Clinton had not put the mothers up to campaigning for her in South Carolina this week.
“There are no payments being made, there are no secret emails about this,” Ms. Reed-Veal said, perhaps inadvertently reminding people about the controversy over Mrs. Clinton’s use of a private email server as secretary of state.
Ms. Giffords, the last to address the audience, drew a standing ovation as she called Mrs. Clinton “courageous” and said she would “stand up to the gun lobby” as president.
“Speaking is difficult for me, but come January, I want to say these two words: madam president,” Ms. Giffords said.................................
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