Kaine, D-Va., appeared Saturday with Clinton at Florida International University in Miami a day after she announced her pick.
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Clinton and Kaine, a USA senator from Virginia she tapped as her running mate, will have a three-day bus tour through OH and Pennsylvania starting Friday, according to a campaign aide. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders says she should step down after some 19,000 DNC emails were leaked that suggested committee officials favored Hillary Clinton during the party’s primary.
The Democratic National Committee’s rules panel has decided that Rep. Marcia Fudge of OH will preside over convention sessions beginning Monday.
“It is beneath the character of the kind of dialogue we should have, because we got real serious problems to solve”, Kaine said.
The billionaire media mogul opted against running as a third-party candidate for fear it might siphon away votes from Clinton and help elect Republican Donald Trump.
“I don’t think it is coincidental that these emails were released on the eve of our convention”, he said.
After the Mahoning Valley stop, the running mates will campaign next Sunday in Columbus and indications are the pair will make other stops in OH on Saturday and Sunday.
“I think having a woman president lead that celebration would be, you know, one of these instances of history really working out right in a poetic and handsome way”, he said. “And look, most of us stopped the name-calling thing about fifth grade”.
Solomon has helped launch a new organization called the Bernie Delegates Network, which claims to have more than 1,250 delegate members and, despite its name, pledges to be working independently from the campaign.
He says Clinton’s VP choice shows contempt for the progressive wing of the party.
Sanders – who describes himself as a democratic socialist – says Kaine is more conservative than he is.
Donald Trump got a slight bump in support across battleground states following the Republican National Convention and has pulled ahead of Democrat Hillary Clinton, according to new polling out Sunday.
Sanders has long wanted Democratic Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz removed, and he reiterated that view Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union”.
The convention wraps up Thursday night in Philadelphia with a joint rally Friday on Independence Mall in that city being the first campaign stop after the two secure their nominations from Democratic delegates.
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He said one of the worst moments of his life was the day of the mass shooting at Virginia Tech, when a gunman slaughtered 32 people in April 2007.
