In the interview, Clinton also offered more details on her pledge to make sure the “middle class will not get a tax increase”, defining the “middle class” as those who earn less than $250,000 per year.
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Trump has also opened a front on Kaine by pointing to the Virginia senator’s support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership – which Trump’s own vice presidential nominee also supported – in an attempt to draw supporters of Sen.
Work continues inside the convention hall before the Democratic National Convention, Saturday, July 23, 2016, in Philadelphia. “And look, most of us stopped the name-calling thing about fifth grade”.
Castro, who was recently passed over as Hillary Clinton’s possible running mate, has not commented on the issue.
Asked if he is ready to be president, Kaine said: “I’m ready first to be a supportive vice president so that the presidency of Hillary Clinton is is a fantastic one”. And at least one Sanders’ delegate said there was talk of protests during Kaine’s acceptance speech. Tim Kaine of Virginia to be her running mate.
The Kaines are set to attend St. Elizabeth Catholic Church, their longtime parish, on Sunday morning.
His wife spoke briefly at the end of the service, telling parishioners how important they’ve been in their lives. “He may be for her, but we’re with him”.
Kaine told reporters outside the church: “We needed some prayers today and we got some prayers, and we got some support and it really feels good”.
Clinton and her campaign have grappled with a number of controversies, including her use of a private email server at the State Department as well as her handling of an attack on a USA consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
The Vermont senator said Kaine has views that are “more conservative” than his, which he has described as democratic socialist.
Warren, who was elected in 2012, has made a name for herself as a progressive focused on reining in big banks and Wall Street, areas Sanders focused on during his campaign. After all, Bernie’s campaign was a sustained clarion call for grassroots democracy instead of gilded-age oligarchy.
Sanders says the party chairwoman, Rep., Debbie Wasserman Schultz, should resign immediately.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager accuses Russian Federation of leaking emails on goal from the Democratic National Committee to help Republican Donald Trump in the presidential election.
Wikileaks has posted emails that including several denunciations of Clinton’s primary rival, Bernie Sanders, and his supporters.
Liberal Sanders supporters pushed for changes to the party nominating process at a meeting of the convention rules committee Saturday.
President Barack Obama says Donald Trump’s suggestion that the USA might not come to the defense of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies is another sign of what he calls Trump’s “lack of preparedness” on foreign policy.
“If we went to central casting for someone who gives us the clearest contrast against the Trump-Pence ticket, they couldn’t have picked a better person from our perspective”, a senior Trump adviser told CNN.
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After the DNC released a slightly trimmed list of superdelegates – those are the party officials who can back any candidate – it now takes 2,382 delegates to formally clinch the nomination. They did not succeed in passing an amendment abolishing superdelegates, but they did win a compromise deal with the Clinton camp – a “unity commission” that will review the overall procedures and will seek to limit the role of superdelegates in future elections.
