Politics & Government

President Barack Obama to Visit Bridgeport Days Before Election Day

President Obama will visit Bridgeport just days before the election. He was originally scheduled to visit last week.

President Barack Obama will be making another attempt to stump for Gov. Dannel Malloy just days before the election.

Democrat officials received an email Tuesday that said the president will appear at a Bridgeport event on Nov. 2, according to WFSB. It is the Sunday before Election Day.

Obama was originally scheduled to visit Bridgeport last Wednesday, but canceled his trip in order to have a meeting about the Ebola virus.

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A source told the Connecticut Mirror that he wasn’t sure if Obama would resume previous plans to have an event at Central High School or he would move to the Harbor Yard Arena.

Read the full Mirror report here.

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