GOP Focuses on Obama in Bid for Giffords' Seat

By: Associated Press Email

Posted: Sun 11:03 AM, Jun 10, 2012

The special election matches Republican Jesse Kelly, who narrowly lost to Giffords in 2010, and Democrat Ron Barber, a former Giffords aide.

Giffords relinquished the seat in January to concentrate on her recovery from a gunshot wound to the head. Giffords and Barber were injured in the January 2011 shooting rampage outside a Tucson grocery store.

Democrats have tried to portray Kelly as a tea partyer who is too far to the right for the swing district. The GOP is trying to make the case that Barber would adamantly back the president's policies.

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GOP Focuses on Obama in Bid for Giffords' Seat

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