Peppering his speech with phrases in Spanish, the bilingual Kaine said he and Clinton were “companeros de alma”, or soul mates, and led chants from the crowd of “Si, se puede”.
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It was another breakfast surprise for the Iowa delegation at the Democratic National Convention.
Vice President Joe Biden spoke before Kaine, tearing into Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. “The dad joke is a delicate thing”.
“You can not believe one word that comes out Donald Trump’s mouth”, Kaine continued to the crowd, prompting them to chant along with him.
“I’m delighted with the pick she made”, said David Rosen, who was attending the DNC from Midland, Texas. “Donald Trump has a passion, too”. It was side-splitting, and thanks to the Internet, you can see it for yourself right now.
“We all should feel the Bern and we all should not want to get burned by the other guy”, he said, trying to quiet them down. I can’t help feeling that Tim Kaine has chosen the wrong employer in his career and some day soon it will bite him.
“Believe me? Believe me?”.
“They are a heartbeat away from being president so that person should be qualified to take over you know I think he’s more than qualified”, Green said. Believe me. We’re going to build a wall and make Mexico pay for it. “We’re not going to lose this one!” “There’s nothing bad in my tax returns”.
KING 5 asked a group of local Democrats and undecided voters what they thought of the convention so fart and what they were looking for in Kaine’s and Obama’s speeches. Of course he should. “Donald, what are you hiding?”
“Believe me. Believe me”, he bellowed. Tim Kaine after a long search.
It was during his year in Honduras, he said, that he “got a first-hand look at dictatorship where a few people at the top had all the power and everybody else got left out”. “Take it from former First Lady Barbara Bush. He already is. The people who might not ever get behind him, we don’t know if they’d ever get behind our ticket anyway”.
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“I knew that I wanted to fight for social justice”, he said, before describing a career path that carried him from working at a Jesuit missionary school, teaching welding and carpentry, in Honduras and as a civil-rights lawyer to mayor of Richmond, governor of Virginia, and now USA senator.
