To do that, she must overcome lingering bitterness among supporters of defeated rival Bernie Sanders and clean up a resurgent political mess of the party’s own making. He mastered Spanish when he took a year off from Harvard Law school to work as a Catholic missionary in Honduras.
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On Friday, Podesta was in a auto with Sara Latham, his senior adviser who put together the Kaine “rollout strategy”, waiting for the senator to finish his call with Clinton.
Wasserman Schultz has not resigned, but according to CNN she will not speak at the Democratic National Convention.
His wife coaxed him to finish up and told the crowd, “I’ve got to get him to bed”.
Kaine said he thinks Democrats will retake the Senate this November, given the number of vulnerable Republicans up for re-election, but that the House “is going to remain in Republican hands”, albeit with a narrower majority.
“Hillary Clinton, she doesn’t insult people, she listens to them”. Kaine’s initiation into the Clinton machine also means he’ll become even more intimately acquainted with her husband and former president, Bill.
Bernie Sanders started off strong, but with the selection of Kaine for V.P., is ending really weak.
Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine said in their first joint interview as running mates that they won’t use the kind of insults that Donald Trump has used throughout his USA presidential campaign, with Kaine saying that “most of us stopped the name-calling thing about fifth grade”. “It’s only fitting that Hillary Clinton would select an ethically challenged insider like Tim Kaine who’s personally benefited from the rigged system”. Clinton said “it felt very sad” to see.
Here’s what Sanders tells ABC’s “This Week”: “I’m not shocked, but I am disappointed”.
Though Warren and Sanders were both notably silent Friday night following the Kaine announcement as many other Democrats and progressive groups applauded the pick, both have since spoken favorably of the senator.
Kaine pledged he would continue to press for gun control and recalled the trauma his state underwent during the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007, when a rampaging student killed 32 people.
But, Huckabee also said, that on a personal level, he believes that Kaine is “an honorable guy”. “I think there probably will be some”.
Clinton and Kaine, a US 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.
Sanders has endorsed Clinton, but his delegates are pushing for a state-by-state tally.
“Let’s be clear, Tim Kaine is definitely a liberal”.
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Carmen Hulbert, a Sanders delegates from Red Hook in Brooklyn, said no matter whom Clinton selected as vice president, she’s apathetic about the whole convention. “And that’s why I am so thrilled to announce that my running mate is a man who doesn’t just share those values, he lives them”, Clinton said. “I don’t get upset about them anymore, but they. are very regrettable”. Trump’s support is up from 40% in the previous round of interviews while Hillary Clinton’s support held firm at 41%.
