However, the timing – at the end of the Republican National Convention – was created to shift focus from Donald Trump back to Democrats as they begin gathering for their own convention in Philadelphia, where Mrs Clinton will become the party’s official presidential candidate.
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OH and Pennsylvania stand as two huge targets in the November election. The pair also lambasted GOP nominee Donald Trump, his VP Mike Pence of IN, and promised a strong contrast between the recent Republican National Convention the upcoming Democratic National Convention. Clinton has chosen Kaine to be her running mate. Three months later, it ended with a phone call to a shipyard office, where Virginia Sen.
“I’m glad the waiting game is almost over”, Kaine told reporters Thursday after an event in northern Virginia, deflecting questions about whether he was about to join the ticket.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton reacts as Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Both Democrats are familiar with the selection process and spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it publicly.
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.
The Democratic ticket will depart Philadelphia for stops across the state of Pennsylvania on Friday and Saturday, which will include Harrisburg and Pittsburgh, and in the state of OH on Saturday evening and Sunday, which will include Youngstown and Columbus.
Kaine’s back-story covers some shortcomings on the Clinton ticket and, coming from a battleground state – since 2000, the candidate who has won Virginia has won the White House – he gives the former U.S. secretary of state a push in the race to the required 270 electoral college votes. He was scheduled to attend fundraisers Friday and Saturday in MA.
Bernie delegate Audrey Blondin also said Warren was her first choice.
If he was added to the ticket, Vilsack could help Clinton in Iowa and connect with rural America. He also has a compelling personal story: He was orphaned at birth in Pittsburgh and his mother struggled with alcohol and drug addiction.
After flirting with potential picks like Massachusetts Sen.
“Would I have preferred to see someone like an Elizabeth Warren selected by Secretary Clinton?” She’s expected to unveil her running mate at either a Friday afternoon rally at the state fairgrounds in Tampa or at a Saturday event at Florida International University in Miami, where two-thirds of the student body is Hispanic.
The two locations give Clinton’s campaign the flexibility to make the announcement at the most optimal time. Some Democrats changed their minds over this period: About one-in-ten of Clinton’s December supporters (9%) had backed Sanders in August, while a similar share (15%) of his December supporters had previously backed her.
“Most Harvard Law graduates don’t go into civil rights work in the South”, said Cohen, who first met Kaine when he served as Richmond’s mayor. Obama considered him for vice president a year later.
Speaking to his convention delegates, just hours before the Democrats opened a convention to nominate his primary rival, the Vermont senator tried to settle roiling tensions between his supporters and the party rank-and-file lining up behind Clinton. “It’s not necessarily just because of me”. In choosing Indiana Gov. Mike Pence to run with him, Trump had a similar mission. In a video posted under the banner of 60 Minutes Overtime and touted as an “unaired” clip from the interview, Pelley asked Clinton and Kaine about the leak.
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They fear supporters may stay home in November, unmotivated by Clinton’s candidacy or out of a belief that Trump can not win. “There is only one person I trust with that responsibility, only one person I believe is truly qualified to be president of the United States, and that is Hillary Clinton”. “Do you want a trash-talking president or a bridge-building president?”
