His endorsement was first reported Sunday by The New York Times. Outside the convention hall, several hundred marched down Philadelphia’s sweltering streets with signs carrying messages such as “Never Hillary”. At the time, DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz said the breach was a “serious incident” and a private contractor hired to sweep the organization’s network had “moved as quickly as possible to kick out the intruders and secure our network”.
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Wasserman Schultz had planned to be among those taking the stage, despite the email hacking controversy.
The DNC rules committee member spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of internal party affairs. Shortly after Friday’s announcement, Stephanie Taylor of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee said Kaine’s support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact gives Republicans “a new opening to attack Democrats on this economic populist issue”.
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”.
He has repeatedly called Clinton “Crooked Hillary”, and his campaign recently dubbed Kaine “corrupt Kaine”. “And look, most of us stopped the name-calling thing about fifth grade”. “And folks, we don’t have to because Hillary Clinton is the direct opposite of Donald Trump”, Kaine said with Clinton standing by his side.
Norman Solomon, a delegate who supports Bernie Sanders, says there is talk among Sanders’ delegates of walking out during Kaine’s acceptance speech or turning their backs as a show of protest. “Yes, I would have”, Sanders told moderator Chuck Todd during an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday.
But party disunity also seems to be a factor in Philadelphia, given Sanders’ demands for a new leader and general unhappiness among his many supporters about how the nomination process unfolded.
US Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks during a campaign rally with US Senator Tim Kaine, in Annandale, Virginia.
“You have helped shape us”, Holton said.
St. Elizabeth’s is a majority black church in Richmond’s Highland Park area.
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said he wished Hillary Clinton had picked Mass. Sen. “When he was governor, Tim Kaine took positions we disagreed with and actively campaigned against”.
“Tim and I found our way to this parish nearly by accident”, Holton said. Elizabeth Warren, a favorite of liberals who has emerged as one of the Democrats’ toughest critics of Trump.
“I’m not shocked, but I’m disappointed” by the exchanges in the emails, Sanders told ABC’s “This Week”.
“Leaked e-mails of DNC show plans to destroy Bernie Sanders”.
But Kaine said he was energized by the service and reconnecting with old friends. One of the smaller events is expected to take place in Cambria County, which went for Mitt Romney in 2012: 58 percent to President Barack Obama’s 40 percent.
There are now 4,763 total delegates, and 712 of them are superdelegates.
“If you don’t believe this election is important, if you think you can sit it out, take a moment to think about the Supreme Court justices that Donald Trump would nominate and what that would mean to civil liberties, equal rights and the future of our country”, he said.
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More than 50 remain uncommitted.
