Kaine serves as a member of the Armed Services Committee, the Armed Services Readiness Subcommittee, and the Foreign Relations Subcommittee on State Department and USAID Management, International Operations, and Bilateral International Development.
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The announcement was made Friday night.
Monitoring the horrific situation in Munich.
Kaine is expected to join Clinton on the campaign trail tomorrow.
Mrs Clinton’s VP announcement comes two days after Mr Trump’s number two – Indiana Governor Mike Pence – accepted the nomination at a tumultuous party convention in Cleveland. “H”, the presumptive Democratic nominee tweeted.
Many said they would be excited about Warren, Castro, or U.S. Sen. “Conventional wisdom says presidential elections are all about base turnout”, he said in an email. John Watkins, a Republican former Virginia state senator, predicted that Trump “would have a hard time getting under Tim Kaine’s skin”. “Not that I would make much money playing a harmonica”. Tim Kaine as her vice presidential running mate. We should be working to reach out to those who are different from us.
“Do you want a “you’re fired” president or a “you’re hired” president?” Both Clinton and her running mate will address the country next week when Democrats gather in Philadelphia for the Democratic National Convention. Though he is of Irish-Catholic descent, Kaine learned Spanish while on a Jesuit mission in Honduras in 1980. The two will make their first appearance together as a ticket Saturday at a rally in Miami. He became Lieutenant Governor of Virginia in 2002 and was inaugurated as Virginia’s 70th Governor in 2006.
Still, Kaine has liabilities, particularly with progressives. Kaine’s positions in favor of trade and other matters leave many progressives cold. Kaine’s strong ties to Virginia, a crucial general election battleground, and his foreign policy experience put him over the top, according to a person close to the campaign, who insisted on anonymity because the person was not authorized to discuss the process publicly.
Also, the Virginia senator has a calm and “level-headed demeanor” that will contrast with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s “chaotic” style, Jacobson said. Kaine got the Democratic Party’s nomination after no other Democrats filed to run. Like his Chicago-native running mate, he is from the midwest, having been born in St. Paul, Minn. on February 26, 1958.
Okay… so who is Kaine?
Kaine may also not be the kind of attack dog Clinton had wanted to combat Trump.
In 2014, Kaine met with Virginia veterans at a momentous time in his son’s military career, according to the Culpeper Star Exponent.
After repeating the line the third time, King wrote, “You may notice that I think this is far and away the most important criterion”.
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Liberal groups, which had pressured Clinton not to pick Kaine because of his support for fast-track authority for the White House to negotiate the Trans-Pacific Partnership, were dismayed by the choice.
