OBAMA STUMPS WITH CLINTON TODAYThat’s exactly why President Obama is joining Hillary Clinton today in one of the newest swing states: North Carolina. I’m Christina Bellantoni, and after a quiet holiday weekend, Essential Politics is back with a jam-packed day ahead. The current president will give Clinton his all in Charlotte (where he accepted the nomination in 2012) around noon Pacific. And as much as I attempted to escape politics for a few days, I quickly found that wouldn’t be possible. Al Gore kept his distance from Bill Clinton eight years earlier, feeling stung by the scandals the president had attracted.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 05, 2016 14:03 UTC