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Terry Tan | Senior Staff Illustrator.

Late night and Trump: It’s complicated

By Matt Maielli / Senior Staff Writer September 22, 2016

If you were the host of America’s most-viewed late-night show and you had a guest that was a presidential candidate known for hateful rhetoric against minorities and immigrants, what would you do with...

Bernie Sanders speaks in support of Katie McGinty.  John Hamilton | Staff Photographer

Bern’d Out: Bernie Sanders supporters pushing for revolution without revolutional candidate

By Casey Schmauder / Staff Writer September 20, 2016

While campaign stickers and t-shirts for now-defeated Democratic primary candidate Bernie Sanders still occasionally crop up around campus, “Feeling the Bern” chalk drawings and posters, marches in...

Senatorial candidate Katie McGinty campaigns  with Bernie Sanders at Carnegie Mellon University.  John Hamilton | Staff Photographer

McGinty’s CMU rally creates hope for Democratic unity

By Henry Glitz / Columnist September 19, 2016

Three unlikely Democratic allies gathered together Friday afternoon in Carnegie Mellon University’s Wiegand Gymnasium to speak, one after another, despite the fact that they wouldn’t have dared standing...

Bill Clinton campaigns in Homewood

By Macey Zaffina / For The Pitt News September 9, 2016

On a stage in Homewood, surrounded by union workers and community members, Bill Clinton declared that Hillary Clinton knows how to bring Americans together. “If we’re not willing to live together...

Bill Clinton will visit Pittsburgh's Homewood neighborhood to campaign for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

Bill Clinton to speak in Homewood neighborhood

By Emily Brindley / Assistant News Editor September 7, 2016

Just days after a visit from Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine and current Vice President Joe Biden, Former President Bill Clinton will swing by Pittsburgh this Friday for the Democratic...

Joe Biden and Tim Kaine

Kaine and Biden speak at Pittsburgh Labor Day parade

By Brad Smertz / For the Pitt News September 5, 2016

Vice President Joe Biden said he fell in love with Pittsburgh after he fell in love with Pitt. During his senior year of high school, he said, Pitt offered him a football scholarship, sparking his affection...

John Hamilton | Staff Photographer

Storify: Kaine, Biden speak before Pittsburgh Labor Day Parade

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Supporters of Donald Trump wave their campaign signs during Trump's June 15, 2016, rally in Atlanta, Ga. (Annalise Kaylor/NurPhoto/Sipa USA/TNS)

Underneath the Trump supporters’ veil

By Julia Aldrich / For The Pitt News September 1, 2016

Fear is a dangerous notion, but hope could arguably be worse. Presidential candidate Donald Trump is notorious for utilizing bigotry and fear as a means of self-promotion. The billionaire businessman...

Tim Kaine is coming to the Pittsburgh Labor Day parade. | TNS

Tim Kaine to speak at Pittsburgh Labor Day parade

By Lauren Rosenblatt / News Editor September 1, 2016

Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s running mate, will make a brief stop at Pittsburgh’s Labor Day parade on Monday. Kaine will jet off to join Clinton in Cleveland later...

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