In June, she called the Republican nominee a “thin-skinned, racist bully”; in turn, Trump said the MA senator was “very racist” for claiming she had Native American heritage while teaching at Harvard University in the 1990s.
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The Democratic Party, Weaver said, seemed to have “its fingers on the scale” for Clinton, he added during the interview, which was posted on the television network’s website.
The pair took the stage Saturday to raucous applause before both turned their attention to the billionaire businessman – with Clinton ripping Trump for his recent claim that “I alone can fix it”. [Photo by Andrew Harnik/AP Images]The DNC leaks are significant since the emails were released days before the Democratic National Convention, and there was already trouble among the attendants. The event will be part pep rally and part infomercial for a party still looking to heal its wounds after a bitter, divisive primary.
Clinton passed over liberal candidates who would have generated more grassroots enthusiasm like U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren of MA and Cory Booker of New Jersey, and Hispanic Cabinet members Julian Castro and Thomas Perez.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, on Twitter Saturday, derided Kaine as “owned by the banks” and anathema to liberal Democrats who were drawn to Bernie Sanders, Clinton’s primary rival.
Florida Democrats say the email scandal isn’t a major concern for them. He said the businessman has shipped jobs overseas, stiffed contractors, opposes a federal minimum wage and equal pay laws for women, calling him a “you’re fired president”, a “trash talker” and a “me-first” president. Another seems to depict an attorney advising the committee on how to defend Clinton against an accusation by the Sanders campaign of not living up to a joint fundraising agreement.
“Sen. Sanders was gracious, and he’s willing to do the right thing”, said Kenneth Bruder, 21, a delegate from Merritt Island in Brevard County who will be attending his first national convention.
“He’s never lost an election”.
“They would have made the flawless team”, said Mount, 56, treasurer for the Florida Democratic Party.
“The Democrats need to be unified”, she said. “He may be for her, but we’re with him”. “There is no way we can have Donald Trump in the White House to serve as president”.
Despite this, Bernie Sanders has been very vocal about the fact that his supporters should eschew any idea of voting for Donald Trump.
“I think that he is a man who knows, who’s had a lot of experience, who would be an excellent asset to Hillary”, Goldfeld said. The Clinton campaign also expressed support for the commission. Bernie Sanders offered an amendment to get rid of superdelegates – party insiders who can vote for the candidate of their choice at the convention.
Florida is a vitally important state in the 2016 race.
Clinton has called Pence the “most extreme pick in a generation”, highlighting his positions against same-sex marriage and abortion rights and his support for prayer in schools.
Kaine said that voters should judge politicians by examining their biographies to “see if they have a passion in their life long before they got into politics. a passion that’s not about themselves”.
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With Kaine unknown to most voters, Clinton’s campaign deliberately introduced him in Florida, the nation’s largest swing state and a place where it hopes his Spanish fluency might make at least a marginal difference with the Hispanic electorate. That’s just like an extra cup of coffee to me, folks.
