“People are very willing to say things about me, to make accusations about me”, Clinton said.
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“We’re going to be very quickly doing another straw poll”, to see what action the delegates would like to do, Solomon said.
With the crowd cheering, Democratic Presidential Nominee Hillary Clinton and Virginia State Senator Tim Kaine made their first appearance together Saturday since Clinton announced he would be her running mate. “I just was so, I was saddened by it”.
The most important criteria in her choice was Kaine’s fitness to immediately assume the presidency, Clinton said, in rejecting criticism from some progressives that he’s not a fighter for their causes. Tim Kaine in the Senate, he said Sunday he would have preferred to see his Senate colleague from MA up there with Clinton.
She said “you have helped shape us” and that she and her husband ‘will really need your prayers’.
However, David Lukeson says with Virginia’s minimum wage at $7.25, Senator Kaine could lead the charge in helping Virginians be more financially secure.
Before he got his start in politics, Kaine worked as a missionary in Honduras, where he learned Spanish.
Perhaps the most personal moment came when Kaine talked about his experience in the aftermath of the Virginia Tech shootings.
And, as Clinton smiled broadly at her choice for vice president, Kaine greeted the largely Hispanic audience in Spanish.
Without naming him, Kaine said he was especially moved by the story of Liviu Librescu, an engineering professor who died blocking the door as the killer attempted to enter his classroom. On Twitter, Trump sought to drive a wedge between the Clinton campaign and voters who had supported Sanders.
Clinton, who will be formally nominated in Philadelphia this week, has planned a post-convention road trip with running mate Sen.
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Kaine, 58, is a welder’s son and grew up in Kansan City where his father owned a small metalworking shop. Bernie Sanders, Mrs. Clinton’s primary rival, who opposes TPP. “But aside from all of that, it is an outrage and sad that you would have people in important positions in the DNC trying to undermine my campaign”.
