Elizabeth Warren, New Jersey Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., as she speaks at a rally at Florida International University Panther Arena in Miami, Saturday, July 23, 2016.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio – Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine, her vice-presidential running mate will launch a bus tour of two critical battlegrounds – Pennsylvania and Ohio – following this week’s Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. “I see it. I understand it”, she said.
During his political career, Kaine has been open about his faith and its impact on his views on social justice.
Joining Clinton at a rally in the battleground state of Florida on Saturday, the bilingual Kaine peppered Spanish-language phrases into a speech focused heavily on introducing himself to voters unfamiliar with the low-key U.S. senator from Virginia.
“I’m a Catholic, and Hillary’s a Methodist but I tell you, her creed is the same as mine, do all the good you can”, says Kaine.
Sanders then teed off on Trump, saying the Republican nominee doesn’t believe climate change is real, favors tax breaks for the wealthy and has insulted Latinos, Muslims, women, veterans and African Americans.
“I have said many times that the most important qualification when you are trying to make this really big choice is, ‘Can this person step in to be president?'” Clinton said of Kaine.
Hours before the start of the four-day gathering to nominate Clinton for the White House, outgoing Democratic National Committee head Debbie Wasserman Schultz struggled to be heard above boos as she spoke to the Democratic delegation from her home state, Florida. Kaine backed President Obama instead of Clinton in the 2008 election.
The presumptive Democratic nominee had weighed whether she needed a more outspoken liberal on her ticket to satisfy the Bernie Sanders wing of the party.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton reacts as Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen.
However, he says Kaine and Clinton are so similar, that it may be hard bringing the voters Bernie Sanders had with her.
“We knew they were stacking the deck against Bernie from the get-go, but this type of stuff coming out is outrageous”, he said.
They made a point to point out their similarities.
At a meeting of the DNC credentials committee Sunday, comments praising Schultz were met with laughter by some Sanders supporters.
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.
Friends and church members greeted Kaine and Holton with hugs and applause Sunday morning.
Heading into the convention, Clinton now has 2,814, when including superdelegates, according to an Associated Press count.
She pointed to the Republican National Convention: “Unfounded, inaccurate, mean-spirited attacks with no basis in truth, reality – which take on a life of their own, and for whatever reasons and I don’t want to try to analyze the reasons”.
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Some Sanders delegates feel the Clinton campaign is not taking their policy concerns seriously.
