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President Obama Will Do Interview On TODAY Show To Air Wednesday
Race To White House
Hillary Clinton’s Running Mate Is Virginia Senator Tim Kaine
Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine.
As his party convenes a his- toric nominating convention in Philadelphia, President Barack Obama will speak exclusively with the Today Show’s, Savannah Guthrie.
The pair will sit down at the White House for an interview to air Wednesday on TODAY, the same day President Obama addresses the Demo- cratic National Convention. A portion of the interview will be broadcast during Tuesday night's prime-time coverage of the event.
The interview comes as De- mocrats move to officially confirm Hillary Clinton as the party's nominee — the first female presidential nominee
from a major party — and amid uproar over the leaking of internal emails which ap- pear to show a plot by party officials to undermine Bernie Sanders' campaign.
Democratic National Com- mittee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz has since said she plans to step down at the end of the con- vention.
Tampa was the place where democratic presidential candi- date, Hillary Clinton an- nounced her running mate.
Hillary Clinton named Senator Tim Kaine of Vir- ginia to be her running mate Friday, selecting a battle- ground-state politician with working-class roots and a flu- ency in Spanish, traits that she believes can bolster her chances to defeat Donald J. Trump in November.
Mrs. Clinton decided that Mr. Kaine, 58, a former gov- ernor of Virginia who sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, had the qualifica- tions and background, and the
personal chemistry with her, to make the ticket a success.
At a campaign stop with Mrs. Clinton in Annandale, Va., last week, Mr. Kaine tried out for the role. “Do you want a ‘You’re fired’ president or a ‘You’re hired’ president?” he asked the crowd. “Do you want a trash-talker president or a bridge-builder president?” He compared Mrs. Clinton’s record of public service to that of his wife, Anne Holton, Virginia’s secretary of educa- tion. In recent days, former President Bill Clinton and the White House had ex- pressed support for Mr. Kaine.
First Lady Michelle Obama Featured On Carpool Karokee With James Corden
In between belting Stevie Wonder, dancing to Bey- oncé and delighting in a sur- prise appearance from Missy Elliott, First Lady Michelle Obama brought up a serious message during her appearance on “The Late Late Show with James Cor- den”: the importance of edu- cating girls around the world. While participating in a “Car- pool Karaoke” segment, Mrs. Obama told the show’s host that she launched a Snapchat account to document her re- cent travel to Liberia, Morocco and Spain. The goal of the trip was to highlight her Let Girls Learn initiative, which she launched last year to educate more girls. Globally, more than 62 million girls are cur-
First Lady Michelle Obama, Missy Elliott and show host, James Cor- den.
Clinton And Trump Poll Tied Leading Into Democratic Convention
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump
rently not in school.
Through the Let Girls
Learn, thousands of American Peace Corps members sta- tioned across the globe now get training in gender and girls education. The program
works with multiple govern- ment agencies and outside or- ganizations to invest in and elevate programs that directly impact girls in at-risk areas.
The ride can be seen on YouTube.
DNC Chairwoman Booed During Speech Monday
Democratic National Com- mittee (DNC) Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz was repeatedly inter- rupted and booed Monday (today) as she sought to speak to Florida's convention dele- gation.
The Florida lawmaker, who will resign after the Demo- cratic National Convention this week after leaked emails showed top members of the DNC working to boost Hillary Clinton's presiden- tial primary bid, had to strain her voice to yell over the flurry of protestors who showed up to interrupt her speech.
Emails posted by WikiLeaks appeared to show DNC offi-
DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ
In polling conducted after the Republican convention and Hillary Clinton's an- nouncement of Tim Kaine as her running mate, the race for president nationwide remains tied.
Clinton and Trump each have the support of 42 percent of voters. Including voters who lean toward a candidate, Trump has a one-point edge. Support for both Trump and Clinton has increased by two points since before Trump's convention and Clinton's VP pick.
Trump's standing after his convention is a bit better than
that of Mitt Romney, who received no bump four years ago.
In recent elections, conven- tions have rarely been turning points in the presidential elec- tion.
In 2008, Republican John McCain received a small boost of four points after his convention. Both he and Romney lost the election in November. The last Republi- can candidate to receive a dou- ble-digit increase in support after a convention was George H.W. Bush in 1988, and he went on to win the presidency.
cials looking for ways to tip the scales against Bernie Sanders during his race with Clinton for the party's presi- dential nomination.
One email showed a top DNC official calling for some-
one to corner Sanders on his religious beliefs, arguing that he’s “skated on saying he has a Jewish heritage.” And another showed a press official talking about pitching a negative story about Sanders's organization
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