{"id":314378,"date":"2017-06-25T03:19:12","date_gmt":"2017-06-25T02:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/obama-returning-to-campaign-trail\/"},"modified":"2017-06-25T03:19:12","modified_gmt":"2017-06-25T02:19:12","slug":"obama-returning-to-campaign-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/obama-returning-to-campaign-trail\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama returning to campaign trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/virginia-politics\/obama-returning-to-campaign-trail-to-stump-for-northam-in-va-governors-race\/2017\/06\/22\/7d64456e-5793-11e7-ba90-f5875b7d1876_story.html?utm_term=.76fc4216cf32\"><strong>Washington Post<\/strong><\/a><br \/>June 23, 2017<\/p>\n<p><strong>Former president Barack Obama is making his first campaign foray of 2017, agreeing to stump for Democrat Ralph Northam in his bid to be Virginia\u2019s next governor.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>David Turner, a spokesman for Northam, said the former president agreed this week to hit the campaign trail for Northam, but said he wouldn\u2019t \u201cgo into any further detail about the private conversations that Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam had with President Barack Obama.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An aide to Obama confirmed that the former president agreed to campaign for Northam during a congratulatory call, although no events have been planned.<\/p>\n<p>The HuffPost\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/ralph-northam_us_594c176ce4b01cdedf01fb00?31c\" shape=\"rect\">first reported Obama\u2019s plans\u00a0<\/a>to campaign for Northam.<\/p>\n<p>The Virginia governor\u2019s race, one of just two gubernatorial contests this year, is shaping up as the next high-profile electoral contest in the era of President Trump. It follows a couple of Democratic losses in high-profile special elections to fill congressional vacancies, including the House race in Georgia earlier this week that became the most expensive in U.S. history.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/virginia-politics\/obama-returning-to-campaign-trail-to-stump-for-northam-in-va-governors-race\/2017\/06\/22\/7d64456e-5793-11e7-ba90-f5875b7d1876_story.html?utm_term=.76fc4216cf32\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Friday, June 23, 2017  at  9:35 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<div class=\"print_sub\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">&#13;<br \/>\n        \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/obama-returning-to-campaign-trail.html\/print\/\" title=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/hw.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print\" title=\"Print\" style=\"border: 0px;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nPrint this page.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<p>        <!--\n      \n\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n\n \n --><\/p>\n<p><!--\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gm2pZEeYN0E?list=UUvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n--><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/obama-returning-to-campaign-trail.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington PostJune 23, 2017 Former president Barack Obama is making his first campaign foray of 2017, agreeing to stump for Democrat Ralph Northam in his bid to be Virginia\u2019s next governor. David Turner, a spokesman for Northam, said the former president agreed this week to hit the campaign trail for Northam, but said he wouldn\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-314378","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}