An energetic Tim Kaine mocked Donald Trump, utilized his fluent Spanish and made the case for Hillary Clinton in the vice presidential nominee’s Democratic National Convention speech Wednesday night.
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Trump might have confused Kaine with former Republican New Jersey Gov. Tom Kean, pronounced the same as Kaine. I wonder. Donald Trump.
Kaine ladled on the sarcasm Thursday, suggesting that “you’ve got to give a guy a break who’s only been in politics for the last month or two and not that well informed”.
Kaine officially accepted his party’s vice presidential nomination on Wednesday and attempted to create a much-needed sense of unity in the Democratic Party. He named numerous other Republicans who vited for the Repulican nomination and described their many qualifications for office.
Delegate Vivian Sanchez-Jones, also of Roanoke, recalls the first time she met Senator Kaine. “I never expected to be here”.
“Hillary Clinton and I are compañeros del alma”. Most people, when they run for President, they don’t just say “believe me”.
It’s gonna be great-believe me!
After a video introducing Kaine, he took the stage to accept the nomination.
“She stood up against thugs and dictators and was a key part of the Obama national security team that chose to go to the ends of the earth to wipe out Osama bin Laden”, Kaine said.
“Hillary is ready. She’s ready to fight”.
But while Pence spent part of Wednesday trying, without much success, to rein in his running mate’s call for Russian Federation to hack Hillary Clinton’s email, Kaine spent it quietly turning the knife on Trump. “He just says, ‘Believe me'”.
Kaine played the roll of attack dog at times, saying that voters should check if candidates have passion for the work that they do.
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Kaine, a former Virginia governor who now represents the state in the U.S. Senate, opened his speech – his first in prime time – by noting that his son Nat is a Marine who just deployed to “defend the very North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies that Donald Trump now says he would abandon”.
