But even as Mr Kaine sought to appeal to Hispanic voters, he and Mrs Clinton were also trying to mollify a growing backlash from the left against his record of support for global trade deals, which many voters in Rust Belt states blame for the loss of U.S. manufacturing jobs. After all, she’s polling to become the first woman, president, making them the ultimate, unprecedented power couple.
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“This fall-off in support is plausibly related to her demonstrable contempt for the progressive wing of this party with the selection of Tim Kaine”, he said, citing Kaine’s past votes on trade and banking.
Clinton and Kaine are expected on the tour to make the argument directly to those voters that Trump is the wrong candidate for them.
The vote change – such as it is – comes nearly entirely from a handful of those voters who were undecided or unsure last week, and not from a conversion of voters who were previously with Clinton; Clinton’s support remains the same despite so much of the convention’s rhetorical focus on her and the Democrats.
That experience, Kaine said, not only would help Clinton win, but would also make her presidency “fantastic”.
The New York billionaire painted a dark picture of an America mired in poverty and violence as he accepted his party’s nomination Thursday night, promising to restore law and order, clamp down on immigration and put America first.
Meanwhile, Sanders’s campaign manager Jeff Weaver, in an interview with ABC News, demanded answers.
Americans for Democratic Action, which promotes liberal views, gave Kaine a 90 percent rating in 2014, . Bernie Sanders, Mrs. Clinton’s primary rival, who opposes TPP. Tim Kaine campaign together at a rally at Annandale, Virginia, on July 14.
Clinton and Kaine’s interview comes a week after Donald Trump and his running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, sat down with “60 Minutes” as well.
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton spoke with her newly announced vice president nominee Tim Kaine in Miami on July 22.
Clinton said she did not want to call him a name but wanted to “talk about what he’s done”, like his rhetoric against immigrants and suggesting a judge of Mexican heritage was biased against him.
Bernie Sanders says he wishes Hillary Clinton had picked someone like Massachusetts Sen.
Before retreating to his home, Kaine said that the Commonwealth is very much in the media spotlight and that he was proud to be carrying on the neighborhood’s story.
Clinton officially introduced Kaine as her choice for vice president on Saturday at a rally in Florida.
“We’re going to be very quickly doing another straw poll”, to see what action the delegates would like to do, Solomon said. “You’ll hear a lot about it in Philadelphia this week”, she said.
Pelley read parts of this email to Clinton: “For Kentucky and West Virginia, can we get someone to ask his belief?”
While in the Senate, Kaine voted to “fast-track” the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership and offered scattered praise for it even after Clinton made public her opposition.
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Ohio Democratic Chairman David Pepper says divisions between the Clinton and Bernie Sanders’ camps will certainly be evident at the convention, but “the mission will be unification”.
