“The onus for party unity was on Hillary Clinton, and it is a bit much to be told, ‘You Bernie delegates better snap to it for party unity, ‘” Solomon added. Tim Kaine, for doing a bad job as governor of New Jersey.
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Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine said in their first joint interview as running mates that they won’t use the kind of insults that Donald Trump has used throughout his USA presidential campaign, with Kaine saying that “most of us stopped the name-calling thing about fifth grade”. Tim Kaine has emerged as the leading contender to join the Democratic ticket as Hillary Clinton’s running mate, according to two Democrats, who both cautioned that Clinton has not made a final decision and could yet change directions.
Yet the threat of Trump hasn’t led to an open embrace of Kaine by liberals, who had pined for Clinton to select Massachusetts Sen.
On Saturday, as Common Dreams reports, Sanders’ campaign manager Jeff Weaver said DNC officials must be held to account for their behavior during the campaign. The New York Times reported Kaine voted to “fast track” the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which is a divisive issue for this election. Bernie supporters are outraged, was their last choice.
“I don’t call him anything”.
Clinton campaigned in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Monday, serving up a harsh critique of Trump’s foreign policy and what she said was his “trash talk about America”.
Kaine and Clinton will be heading to Philadelphia this week where the duo will accept the party’s nomination for president.
Kaine is a fluent Spanish speaker with a reputation for working with Republicans. Known as a staunch Roman Catholic, he said his family embraces “faith, family and work” as its main values. “There’s no question in my mind, and no question in any objective observer’s mind, that the DNC was supporting Hillary Clinton and was in opposition to our campaign”.
Kaine told Democrats Saturday that Trump is a callous businessman who “leaves a trail of wrecked lives wherever he goes”. She also hailed his record in support of equal rights for gay and transgender people, as well as immigration reform.
“One of the main reasons that I’m being considered is because of Virginia”, Kaine said. “I don’t get upset about them anymore, but they… are very regrettable”. He joked that far fewer people had showed up for that announcement.
Weaver said the emails showed that the DNC’s “senior staffers” attacked Sanders about his religion and had roles in “planting negative stories about him with religious leaders in various states”. The 2005 era Tim Kaine sounded downright Republican: “I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman and that marriage is a uniquely valuable institution that must be preserved”.
Oil and gas companies donated almost US$60,000 to Kaine for his 2011 campaign, including US$35,000 from Dominion Resources Inc., the Richmond-based utility that supplies electricity and natural gas to Virginia and other neighboring and eastern states.
Kaine is a veteran Democratic politician who describes himself as “boring”. Among Democrats, 63% call Kaine a good choice, including 66% of liberal Democrats and 58% of moderate or conservative Democrats.
“He’s never lost an election”.
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Right off the bat, the contrast that the Clinton campaign will seek to highlight between Kaine and the Republican ticket during the general election was clear. His time there is said to have helped form his support for citizenship for undocumented immigrants in the United States – a stance likely to attract Latino voters. The timing is aimed at shifting attention away from the end of Donald Trump’s Republican convention and generating excitement before the start of Clinton’s own convention next week in Philadelphia. The 35-year-old Virginia native is running in a competitive mayor’s race in Richmond this year and has political and fundraising chops.
