Noriega said. “If Tim Kaine does that it will [energize] Latinos [and] put out the welcome mat for independent Latinos” as well. Tim Kaine for vice president.
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For the most part, Kaine resisted attacking Trump on national security issues – that was left to other heavy-hitters like Vice President Joe Biden and former Central Intelligence Agency chief Leon Panetta.
Kaine said Trump, a businessman and reality TV show host, was fundamentally untrustworthy.
These moments easily earned Kaine the loudest applause.
He spoke about the toughness of Virginians and used the Virginia Tech mass shooting as an example of the state’s perseverance. He said the process lasted 32 days. “And tough people do”. “Bernie!” and Sanders himself applauded quietly. We share this basic belief, it’s simple – Do all the good you can.
But in a nod to Sanders, Kaine said Wednesday night, “We should all feel the Bern and we all should not want to get burned by the other guy”.
In this, it seems, Kaine may have hit the target he was aiming for. “Do you believe him?”
“Folks, you can not believe one word that comes out of Donald Trump’s mouth”, Mr. Kaine said.
Hours before his big speech last night, Kaine’s nomination was
approved by voice vote under suspension of the rules – a move that was seen as an effort to quell opposition despite the objection of some Sanders supporters, who chanted, “Roll call!”.
During his time as senator, Kaine has enjoyed consistently positive approval ratings.
Mostly, though, there were cheers.
He told the Virginian-Pilot, “I was driving with Anne one day with the kids and I remember thinking, ‘Geez, what if I win and then I run for governor and win?”
“Can I tell you a amusing thing about the Senate?” he said at another.
A little later in the speech, he took on Trump for not releasing his tax returns.
Kaine was dealt a hard hand on Wednesday evening, given the other speakers on the schedule. That’s what Joe Biden is about. Former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of NY made the independent voters’ case against Trump, suggesting that the Republican nominee was neither sane nor competent.
Speaking after Kaine, President Barack Obama echoed Obama’s endorsement of Clinton.
In a rare instance of Republicans supporting President Barack Obama and most Democrats opposing him, Kaine was one of only 13 Senate Democrats to vote in May 2015 to grant the president “fast-track” authority to negotiate worldwide trade deals. “It would have been nice to have someone throw us a bone, the progressive movement, keep her (Clinton) more to the left”.
Chosen as Hillary Clinton’s running mate, Kaine took up the customary role of campaign slasher with gusto, gleefully contrasting Clinton’s detail-laden policy agenda with Donald Trump’s vague promises.
To delegates from Iowa, he recalled participating in a bicycle ride across the state in 1996, expressing delight that no pictures had survived.
“You never know with Donald Trump”, said Kean, who estimated he has known the casino and real estate mogul for almost 30 years.
Since 1960, the vice-presidential “home state advantage” has “potentially swung four national elections”, suggested University of Virginia researchers Boris Heersink and Brenton Peterson in their February 2016 study published in the journal American Politics Research. “No matter where they come from, how much money they have, what they look like, how they worship, or who they love”, Kaine said. “Let me soak it in just for a second”.
Kaine asked: “Here’s the question: Do you really believe him?” Trump complained about the temperature and threatened not to pay the hotel. Luis Megid, a national correspondent with Univision, told the Post that they don’t have access to the “top players” in Trump’s campaign.
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Clinton had just been anointed the inheritor of Obama’s legacy with his vigorous endorsement speech, the candidate who could realize the “promise of this great nation”. “He was not very popular in New Jersey, and he still isn’t”.
