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Former Arizona Rep. Gabby Giffords and her husband Sen. Mark Kelly spoke on the DNC stage ahead of Harris' appearance. Giffords was seriously injured in a 2011 shooting.
Gabrielle Dee Giffords (born June 8, 1970) is an American retired politician and gun control activist. She served as a member of the United States House of Representatives representing Arizona's 8th congressional district from January 2007 until January 2012, when she resigned because of a severe brain injury suffered during an assassination attempt.
Giffords and Kelly had spoken dozens of times about how risky her job was. She was afraid that someone with a gun would come up to her at a public event. In an interview filmed just over a week after the shooting, Kelly said, "She has Tombstone, Arizona, in her district, the town that's too tough to die. Gabrielle Giffords is too tough to let ...
In 2011, Mark Kelly, Giffords's husband, published a memoir, Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope, crediting her with joint authorship. He wrote that Giffords vows to return to Congress, although she continues to struggle with language and has lost 50 percent of her vision in both eyes. [128] Kelly himself was elected U.S. Senator from Arizona in ...
Former US Representative Gabby Giffords, who was severely injured during a mass shooting in 2011, speaks alongside her husband US Senator Mark Kelly, Democrat from Arizona, during the fourth and ...
During an interview with USA Today at the Democratic convention Tuesday, Kelly said Giffords introduced him to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz in 2007, and that the two have since been friends.
President Biden appeared to suggest Friday that former Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-Ariz.) is either dead or divorced— and no longer his friend — in an apparent gaffe shortly after he told members ...
The thirteenth episode, "Road To Nowhere", was initially scheduled for January 18, 2011 but was replaced with a 20/20 special interview with Mark E. Kelly, the husband of U.S. Congresswoman Gabby Giffords who is believed to have been the intended target in the shooting near Tucson, Arizona ten days before.