The massacre in Orlando is ruining Hillary Clinton’s plans for a high-profile general election campaign launch this week, forcing the cancellation of a banner event Wednesday in Green Bay with President Obama.
The Clinton presidential campaign indicated Sunday that it was postponing plans for the event without immediately providing a rescheduled date.
A White House official said that the president had set aside his plans to travel to Wisconsin and that the White House would provide more information about his schedule when it was available.
The event, announced last week immediately after Obama endorsed Clinton, was to be one of the first general election events for Clinton after a long primary campaign against Bernie Sanders.
Clinton’s campaign had also announced stops in Ohio on Monday and in Pennsylvania on Tuesday before traveling to Wisconsin. She is running her first general election anti-Trump ad in battleground states Monday. Those general election kick-off plans will be overshadowed by the mass shooting, a development likely to cause political turmoil
Earlier Sunday, Clinton had described the shootings in Orlando as an “act of terror” and an “act of hate.”
