AP: Kaine Weeps at Site of Pulse Nightclub Shooting

By BearingArms.com Staff

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. presidential race ahead of the first debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Monday at Hofstra University (all times EDT):

6:20 p.m.

Tim Kaine has visited the Orlando, Fla., memorial site of the worst mass shooting in modern American history.

Weeping, he said, “we’ve got work to do.”

The Democratic vice presidential nominee made the remarks during a brief stop at Pulse nightclub, where 49 people were shot and killed in June. He was joined by former congresswoman Gabby Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly. The couple became gun control advocates after Giffords was shot in the head in 2011.

Kaine laid white roses in front of a banner of rainbow doves. Many of the Pulse victims were members of the LGBT community.

Kaine will join Giffords and Kelly in Orlando to watch Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in their first debate.

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4:26 p.m.

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy says Donald Trump’s improved performance is helping GOP down-ballot candidates around the country.

It’s a point McCarthy says he made directly to Trump in a phone conversation Monday.

The California Republican says that “As his numbers go up, our numbers go up.”

Republicans are widely expected to keep their majority in the House in …Read the Rest

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