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A day after Washington Democratic congressional candidate Lisa Brown won the endorsement of former President Barack Obama, a campaign swing to the West will bring Vice President Mike Pence to downtown Spokane Tuesday to stump for Republican U.S. Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers.
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The vice president is scheduled to appear Tuesday afternoon at the Spokane Convention Center at a late luncheon, where he will make remarks to a crowd of benefactors to the McMorris Rodgers campaign. It marks the first visit to Spokane by a sitting vice president since Dick Cheney stopped at Fairchild Air Force Base in 2006.
Brown has mounted a stiff challenge to McMorris Rodgers for Eastern Washington’s 5th Congressional District seat, and the former state senator locked up Obama’s endorsement Monday. In a statement issued on Twitter, Brown’s name was one of three Washington candidates among dozens of Democrats nationwide that Obama said he’d be supporting in November.
Meanwhile, Pence is the third ally of President Trump to make an appearance in Spokane on behalf of McMorris Rodgers, including California Representative Devin Nunes, and Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway. (Spokesman-Review)
