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Presidential Campaign Whirlwind Sweeps Down The Oklahoma Plains

2016 presidential candidate collage
Photos by Kate Carlton Greer, Emily Wendler, and Brian Hardzinski.
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KGOU/Oklahoma Public Media Exchange

Four presidential candidates visited Oklahoma over the course of a 48-hour period between Friday and Sunday, and KGOU made sure to cover them all.

Here's a roundup:

Former president Bill Clinton also stumped in Edmond Saturday morning on behalf of former Secretary of State and U.S. Senator (and of course, his wife) Hillary Clinton. KGOU's Jacob McCleland attended the Clinton rally a week ago.

Early voting started Thursday, and Oklahomans go to the polls Tuesday to pick their Republican and Democratic presidential nominees, and allocate a little over 40 delegates per side.

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Brian Hardzinski is from Flower Mound, Texas and a graduate of the University of Oklahoma. He began his career at KGOU as a student intern, joining KGOU full time in 2009 as Operations and Public Service Announcement Director. He began regularly hosting Morning Edition in 2014, and became the station's first Digital News Editor in 2015-16. Brian’s work at KGOU has been honored by Public Radio News Directors Incorporated (PRNDI), the Oklahoma Association of Broadcasters, the Oklahoma Associated Press Broadcasters, and local and regional chapters of the Society of Professional Journalists. Brian enjoys competing in triathlons, distance running, playing tennis, and entertaining his rambunctious Boston Terrier, Bucky.
Jacob McCleland spent nine years as a reporter and host at public radio station KRCU in Cape Girardeau, Mo. His stories have appeared on NPR’s Morning Edition and All Things Considered, Here & Now, Harvest Public Media and PRI’s The World. Jacob has reported on floods, disappearing languages, crop duster pilots, anvil shooters, Manuel Noriega, mule jumps and more.
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