I’m honoured to be her running mate.
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She said he had “devoted his life to fighting for others” when she announced the appointment on Twitter.
“Tim is a lifelong fighter for progressive causes and one of the most qualified vice presidential candidates in our nation’s history”, Clinton said in her letter.
The pair will appear together on Saturday at Florida International University.
Mrs Clinton’s decision caps a highly secretive, months-long process to find a political partner. Clinton and Kaine will face Republican Donald Trump and his running mate, Mike Pence, the IN governor.
Prominent Nevada Democrats had mixed reactions Friday after Hillary Clinton announced that Virginia Sen. According to a Clinton campaign official, the former secretary of state called Kaine this evening to make the formal offer. Tim Kaine better than most. Kaine will continue the progress President Obama’s Democratic administration has made over the past eight years.
Kaine was among Obama’s top three choices for his running mate in 2008.
Kaine could help Clinton with minority voters. Kaine, who speaks Spanish, has (like Hillary) been a vocal supporter of the liberal-hated TPP trade deal, and was actually praising it just yesterday.
Jeff Merkley – who supports Clinton but is voting for Vermont Sen. Elizabeth Warren or Ohio Sen.
Kaine’s selection completes the line-up for the general election. Clinton is picking a Democrat that Republicans like, which in this polarized climate feels like a betrayal.
He can nominee spent considerable time stoking the fire of his bitter quarrel with Republican former rival Ted Cruz. “And Hillary is none of those things”, said Phil Johnston, a former chairman of the Massachusetts Democratic party.
“I don’t do anything unless I win”, Mr Trump insisted. Democrats hoped the announcement would blunt any momentum Trump gained from his convention. His father-in-law was the governor of Virginia from 1970 to 1974 and is said to have been a political mentor to him.
But instead of going to some big corporate firm, he chose to fight housing discrimination as a civil rights lawyer in Richmond. “During law school, he too took an unconventional path – he took time off and went to Honduras to work with missionaries, practicing both his faith and his Spanish”, Clinton said in the email titled “Welcome Tim Kaine”. From 2006 to 2010, he was the 70th Governor of Virginia.
Clinton, a former secretary of state, will be formally nominated as the party’s presidential candidate at next week’s Democratic convention in Philadelphia. New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, one of two black senators, was also considered. But he could help her in attracting disaffected Republicans and independents turned off by Trump.
“Do you want a “you’re fired” president or a “you’re hired” president?”
In the “Meet the Press” interview with Chuck Todd, Kaine said “nobody should ever say they’re ready” to be president because that responsibility “is so huge”.
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RT if you agree: We can’t let him become president.
