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Clinton celebrates Cubs World Series while on the campaign trail

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Hillary Clinton finally is getting a chance to cheer her hometown Chicago Cubs’ victory in the World Series.

With the game going to extra innings, Clinton was able to catch the final moments after finishing a rally in Arizona Wednesday night. She watched on an aide’s iPad as she stood by her idling motorcade.

Reporters in vans further back in the motorcade could hear cheers from the direction of Clinton’s vehicle after the final out in the Cubs’ thrilling 8-7 victory in the 7th game. An aide said Clinton staffer and Cubs fan Connolly Keigher pulled one of the Cubs’ signature “W” flags from her purse and she and Clinton held it up in celebration.

Clinton grew up in the suburbs of Chicago.

She was campaigning in reliably red Arizona, her first stop of the general election in a state her campaign is hoping to pluck from Donald Trump.

Clinton was greeted by a boisterous crowd of 15,000 — one of her largest of the campaign — on the campus of Arizona State University. She said the students in the crowd were “proof that the American dream is alive and big enough for everyone.”

She also waded into a local sheriff’s race getting national attention. She backed Democrat Paul Penzone in the race for Maricopa County sheriff, a post held by immigration hardliner Joe Arpaio.

She said to the cheering crowd, “I think it’s time you had a new sheriff in town, don’t you?”

Associated Press