Obama Plans First Campaign Appearance with Hillary

Can Obama help Hillary?

6.30.2016

President Obama will make his first appearance with former First Lady Hillary Clinton next week in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Their joint appearance Tuesday builds on the Democrats’ strong campaign footprint in a key battleground state, where Clinton and her allies have used the airwaves in recent weeks to pound Republican Donald Trump.

Details such as where and when the event will take place have not yet been released. Clinton and Obama will be joined by N.C. Attorney General Roy Cooper, the Democrats’ candidate for governor, and Deborah Ross, the party’s candidate for U.S. Senate.

Clinton has been campaigning heavily in North Carolina.

The Clinton campaign has been running more than $10 million worth of TV ads in the state. One that started Monday cost nearly $192,000 in the Charlotte market alone, according to a contract with WBTV.

Another ad began running last weekend on cable stations across the country, including in North Carolina. It criticized Trump’s comments following Britain’s vote to leave the European Union.

In addition, the super PAC Priorities USA, which supports Clinton, announced it’s reserving $9 million of airtime in North Carolina. Contracts show that includes $494,000 in the Charlotte market for the last week of October alone.

So far, GOP presumptive nominee Donald Trump has not spent any money on ads.

“It seems like the Democrats are getting sort of an open field right now,” said Republican strategist Carter Wrenn. “It’s sort of your ideal situation. You have ads up and the other person doesn’t.”

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