Clinton is hoping Kaine will help her appeal to independents and moderates, but some liberal groups and supporters of Clinton’s Democratic primary rival, US Senator Bernie Sanders, were dismayed by the choice because of Kaine’s past advocacy for giving the White House fast-track authority to negotiate an Asian free-trade pact.
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His wife spoke briefly at the end of the service, telling parishioners how important they’ve been in their lives.
St. Elizabeth’s is a majority black church in Richmond’s Highland Park area. Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a progressive favorite, would deliver the convention keynote.
I have known Tim Kaine for a number of years.Tim is a very, very smart guy.
Sanders, a senator from Vermont, said Kaine is more conservative than him but is “100 times better” than the Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump.
Here’s what Sanders tells ABC’s “This Week”: “I’m not shocked, but I am disappointed”.
Emails posted to the website Wikileaks show that at least some DNC officials were looking at ways to undercut Sanders’ campaign, including questioning his religious beliefs. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., holds up a sign call calling for Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee to be fired, Sunday, July 24, 2016, in Philadelphia.
They will try to overcome party disunity that seems certain to also be a factor in Philadelphia, given Wasserman Schultz’s departure and the general unhappiness among many Sanders supporters intensified by both the emails and by Clinton’s pick of Sen.
Clinton unveiled her choice of Kaine late on Friday, grabbing the political spotlight from Trump, who accepted the Republican presidential nomination on Thursday night after a chaotic four-day convention.
Liberal Sanders supporters pushed for changes to the party nominating process at a meeting of the convention rules committee Saturday.
“There is a consensus among experts that it is indeed Russian Federation that is behind this hack of the DNC”, Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon told CNN Monday morning, arguing Russian Federation was trying to influence the outcome of the USA election.
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation members promise that an attack against any of them is considered an assault against all.
It’s become a bit easier for Hillary Clinton to formally claim the nomination at the upcoming Democratic National Convention. They did not succeed in passing an amendment abolishing superdelegates, but they did win a compromise deal with the Clinton camp – a “unity commission” that will review the overall procedures and will seek to limit the role of superdelegates in future elections.
The Democratic National Committee has released a slightly trimmed list of superdelegates – those are the party officials who can back any candidate.
Two superdelegates left their positions in the last month, while Rep. Mark Takai of Hawaii died from cancer.
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Resistance to Clinton was on display during a demonstration Sunday as many thronged to a main thoroughfare and chanted, “Hell no, DNC, we won’t vote for Hillary”. Clinton has 2,814 when including superdelegates, according to an Associated Press count.
