Pastor Warren To Host Candidates

By Rob Schmitz

Published August 15, 2008 at 11:00 AM MDT

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Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain will make their first joint appearance as their parties' presumptive presidential nominees on Saturday. The event will be hosted by mega-church Pastor Rick Warren at Saddleback Church in Orange County, Calif.

Rob Schmitz reports for KQED.

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Rob Schmitz

Rob Schmitz is NPR's international correspondent based in Berlin, where he covers the human stories of a vast region reckoning with its past while it tries to guide the world toward a brighter future. From his base in the heart of Europe, Schmitz has covered Germany's levelheaded management of the COVID-19 pandemic, the rise of right-wing nationalist politics in Poland and creeping Chinese government influence inside the Czech Republic.