Gabby Giffords to endorse Hillary Clinton [View all]

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Source: cbsnews.com





By Reena Flores CBS News January 10, 2016, 10:00 AM
Gabby Giffords to endorse Hillary Clinton

Former U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords attends a news conference outside Safeway grocery store where they asked Congress to provide stricter gun control in the United States on March 6, 2013 in Tucson, Arizona.
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Former Rep. Gabby Giffords, D-Arizona, is expected to endorse Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, a source close to Giffords tells CBS News.

Giffords and her husband, retired astronaut Mark Kelly, will officially announce their endorsement of the candidate later this week, with Clinton's position on gun control playing a role in their decision.

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Giffords, herself a gun owner, sat front row at the president's emotional press conference last week, where he announced new executive actions that would expand background checks on firearm sales and close the so-called "gun-show loophole." Giffords and Kelly, in numerous private meetings with the White House, helped lead the effort around defining what it means to be "in the business" of selling guns, which provided the basis of the president's recent background check initiatives.

Since launching her second presidential campaign, Clinton has rolled out new proposals for gun safety, which fall in line with the president's latest executive actions on closing regulatory loopholes. Clinton has also proposed holding manufacturers liable for crimes committed with their products.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/gabby-giffords-to-endorse-hillary-clinton/

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