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DonViejo

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Thu Sep 29, 2016, 10:53 AM Sep 2016

Michelle Obama is the perfect Clinton surrogate in the home stretch

By James Hohmann September 29 at 9:13 AM

With Breanne Deppisch

THE BIG IDEA: The crowd cried “no” when Michelle Obama, campaigning for Hillary Clinton in Pittsburgh yesterday, said that “it’s almost time for my family to end our time at the White House.”

The first lady—working hard to get millennial, minority and female voters to rally behind a Democratic nominee whom she battled so fiercely eight years ago—tried to assuage them.

“It’s okay. It’s okay. It’s okay,” she said. “Look, two terms is a good thing for the country! Right? Two terms is good. And we’re not going anywhere! We’re going to keep working and doing our good stuff. So we will be near."

“We love you, Michelle,” a member of the audience yelled out, and the crowd cheered. Then someone else yelled to ask what will happen to Sunny and Bo, the first pets.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2016/09/29/daily-202-michelle-obama-is-the-perfect-clinton-surrogate-in-the-home-stretch/57ec930fe9b69b0ec0c0a85e/?wpisrc=nl_daily202&wpmm=1

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