But the highlight of Kaine’s late-night debut may have happened off camera during a commercial break when he joined Late Show bandleader Jon Batiste and Stay Human on harmonica. He previously appeared on The Daily Show in 2010.
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He noted that when she got out of law school, she worked to “help advance racial justice” in places like SC and Alabama.
“At his early career Donald Trump was a real estate guy who got sued by the Justice Department for discriminating against people in housing, writing the letter “C” on applications if they were minority”, Kaine said, warming to his theme.
Kaine, a fluent Spanish speaker, gave most of his response on Trump’s immigration stance in Spanish. Anything he has negative to say about his running mate, Kaine said he’ll tell her himself and not through the media.
Kaine insisted, “I hope that we see a place that is inclusive and is welcoming and builds a community of respect. that is why it is important that she said that”.
Hillary did some unbelievable defense of her own earlier in the day, when at a campaign stop in Reno, NV she told the audience “He built his campaign on prejudice and paranoia”.
“Let me ask an important question”, Colbert also told Kaine.
When asked to describe what being “kidnapped” by the campaign is like, Kaine compared it to “that scene at the end of ‘E.T.’ where they go back up to a big spaceship”. Some were excited and posed for pictures but the phony Kaine also managed to make a baby cry, hugged a young woman just a little too long and couldn’t remember his daughter’s name. “The next stretch from here to November, it’s going to be super intense but if you got to be on a presidential campaign, just joining the last 95 days, you get to skip all the really hard work”. “I guess that’s one way to look at it. Yes”.
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Since then, Tim Kaine has become known as “America’s stepdad” and Colbert was sure to remind him of that. Kaine responded that he has been “training for that for 23 years” with his children who have always considered him un-cool.
