“I was born in Minnesota and grew up in Kansas City”. But many of them missed it.
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The Virginia senator says, “so here’s the question: Do you really believe him?”.
Tuesday’s most intense protest followed one of the most dramatic moments at the convention thus far, when Sanders moved for Clinton’s nomination by acclamation following what had been a long and at times bitter primary campaign. Kaine cited his work as a civil rights lawyer fighting housing discrimination and an executive order he signed as Virginia governor keeping guns out of the hands of the mentally ill.
Kaine played the roll of attack dog at times, saying that voters should check if candidates have passion for the work that they do. “You know my son, Nat, deployed with his Marine battalion just two days ago”.
Supporters of Clinton’s main adversary in the Democratic primary race, Bernie Sanders, had argued that she should choose a more liberal running mate such as the feisty leftist Elizabeth Warren. Graphiq’s politics site InsideGov will get you up to speed with a Tim Kaine cheat sheet, outlining the facts and figures behind the potential next vice president of the United States. In a “Meet the Press” interview, the Republican nominee compared Kaine to former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, who was tried for accepting cash and gifts during his tenure as governor and attorney general. Karla said she trusts Hillary to keep them together.
Earlier in the day, Trump said: “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing”.
Kaine punctuated his speech with compliments of Clinton. On Wednesday night, that included a lengthy diatribe against the gun lobby, led by survivors of the gun attacks in Orlando, Fla., Charleston, S.C., and Newtown, Conn. “On a personal level”, he said. “Because what “listo” means in Spanish is this: it means prepared, it means battle-tested, it means rock-solid, up for anything, never backing down”. Running arm-in arm with President Obama in 2012, Kaine was swept into office, outperforming the President in Virginia.
University of California, Berkeley political science professor Lisa García Bedolla said Kaine’s use of Spanish calls attention to his ability to connect on key issues that matter to Latinos. The address was a pitch for comprehensive immigration reform and displayed a skill that turned out to be an important asset in the Clinton selection process.
Senior Democrats and former national security figures lined up in Philadelphia on Wednesday to describe Trump as unable to steer America through the risky waters of today’s world.
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Kaine took the opportunity to explain why he trusts Clinton in front of a jam-packed Wells Fargo Arena.
