Citing Republican nominee Donald Trump’s favorite shorthand for Clinton – “Crooked Hillary” – or a preferred chant among Republican convention-attendees (“lock her up”), Kaine called such language “ridiculous” and said she’d admirably let the “water go off her back on this”.
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But aides to both Democrats signalled that Mr Kaine would soon publicly adopt Mrs Clinton’s current position on the trade deal and say he no longer supported the agreement in its current form.
But many Democrats say they’re more motivated by a desire to keep Trump out of the White House than by her vision for the country’s future or by her bid to become the first woman to serve as president.
Sen. Tim Kaine speaking about Liviu Librescu, a Holocaust survivor and victim of the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting, during a Democratic filibuster in the U.S. Senate, June 15, 2016.
The pick also comes as leaked emails from the Democratic National Committee show there were discussions among top party officials about how to attack the Vermont senator, a development sure to anger his followers whom Clinton is now counting on.
“My faith is central to everything I do”, he once told the website Patch.
That prompted runner-up Bernie Sanders on Sunday to call for Wasserman Schultz’s immediate resignation.
And she says there will be more answers than Donald Trump had in his speech Thursday night.
The Democratic National Convention kicks off Monday in Philadelphia.
“I don’t think she is qualified to be the chair of the DNC not only for these terrible emails, which revealed the prejudice of the DNC, but also because we need a party that reaches out to working people and young people, and I don’t think her leadership style is doing that”, he said. Sanders has 1,893. Sanders’ supporters believe Kaine is not liberal enough.
“We’re going to be very quickly doing another straw poll”, to see what action the delegates would like to do, Solomon said.
Clinton officially introduced Kaine as her choice for vice president on Saturday at a rally in Florida.
Heading into the convention, Clinton now has 2,814, when including superdelegates, according to an Associated Press count.
Clinton and Kaine will campaign together for the first time in an appearance in Miami after making solo appearances in Orlando and Tampa on Friday. “I’m excited for us to get to know one another”.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks at the National Council of La Raza Hispanic conference at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Fla., on Saturday, July 23, 2016.
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When the news came via text, she quickly followed it with a message on Twitter: “I’m thrilled to announce my running mate, @TimKaine, a man who’s devoted his life to fighting for others”. Kaine has attended St. Elizabeth’s Catholic Church for over two decades.
