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Obama puts recovery ahead of re-election bid
7:42PM EDT October 30. 2012 - WASHINGTON With less than a week to go until Election Day, President Obama continues the delicate balancing act of running for re-election while helping manage the federal response to a catastrophic storm that has ravaged a huge swath of the East Coast.
The White House announced Tuesday that the president was canceling previously scheduled plans to campaign in Ohio on Wednesday and would instead travel to New Jersey to meet with Gov. Chris Christie and tour areas that have been damaged by the storm. It marks the third straight day that Obama steps off the campaign trail to focus on the federal response and fallout to the storm.
In remarks at the Red Cross headquarters in Washington on Tuesday, Obama called the devastation "heartbreaking for the entire nation," but also promised that the federal government was fully behind local and state authorities dealing with the recovery and response.
Obama and Energy Secretary Steven Chu also held a late-afternoon call with utility company executives to discuss efforts to restore power to millions of Americans, who are still without electricity.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2012/10/30/obama-storm-recovery-campaign/1669989/
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