Former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, Mark Kelly, attend a Hillary Clinton campaign event in Phoenix in March 2016. (Carolyn Kaster/AP)Former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, an Arizona Democrat who became a prominent gun-control advocate after surviving a 2011 shooting, will stump in Virginia on Monday for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ralph Northam. Giffords is among several prominent Democrats to campaign for Northam. [Want the latest on the Virginia governor’s race? Northam supports an assault-weapons ban, universal background checks and reinstating Virginia’s one-handgun-a-month law governing weapon sales.

Source: Washington Post September 28, 2017 18:33 UTC