Pence to stump for Gillespie in Virginia

Vice President Mike Pence will be in Virginia later this week to stump for Republican gubernatorial nominee Ed Gillespie, according to Gillespie spokesman David Abrams.

The vice president is set to join Gillespie at a rally on Saturday in Abingdon.

Clinton won Virginia, one of the two states with gubernatorial races this year, in the 2016 presidential election. 

President Trump expressed his support for Gillespie, the former Republican National Committee chairman, in a tweet last week while accusing his Democratic opponent of “fighting for the MS-13 killer gangs & sanctuary cities.”

Thirty-nine percent of voters said Trump was a factor in the Virginia race, according to a poll released late last month by the Wason Center for Public Policy at Christopher Newport University.