Kaine, who speaks fluent Spanish, said the two were “compañeros de alma in this great lucha ahead” – “soul mates in this great fight ahead”. “They are doubling down on the status quo”.
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At the splashy rally, Democrats sought to offer a contrast with Trump and Pence, whose first appearance together in a New York City hotel ballroom included a lengthy speech by the GOP businessman and much more limited remarks from Pence, the in governor.
“He leaves a trail of broken promises and wrecked lives wherever he goes”, Kaine said of the Republican nominee.
Hillary Clinton went with a pretty vanilla choice for her running mate: Democratic Sen.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump points toward running mate Indiana Gov. Mike Pence after Pence’s acceptance speech during the third day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, Wednesday, July 20, 2016.
In picking Kaine, Clinton passed over liberal candidates who would have generated more grassroots enthusiasm like U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren of MA and Cory Booker of New Jersey, and Hispanic Cabinet members Julian Castro and Thomas Perez. In 1998, he was elected its mayor, and three years later, took a step up to the state level, becoming Virginia’s lieutenant governor.
Latest estimates show that Hispanics make up approximately 17 percent of the United States population, or about 55 million people.
“We don’t have to because Hillary Clinton is the direct opposite of Donald Trump”.
Kaine has a lengthy record of backing gay rights.
“Trying to count the ways I hate (at) timkaine”, Arizona Sen. “Drawing a blank. Congats to a good man and a good friend”.
Clinton, 68, is thought to have chosen Kaine, a political centrist, in part because of his national security credentials -he’s a member of the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees – and his years of experience. “Unfortunately, since Tim Kaine voted to fast track the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Republicans now have a new opening to attack Democrats on this economic populist issue”. “Job killer!” Trump tweeted, despite the fact that his own running mate has also voiced support for the TPP deal.
“She’ll always have our backs.Hillary knows we’re stronger together”, Kaine said, referencing a report in the New York Times in which Trump questioned whether he’d defend North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies from Russian aggression.
More than 19,000 emails from Democratic party officials have been leaked in advance of Hillary Clinton’s nomination next week at the Philadelphia convention.
Kaine accepted Clinton’s offer to be the candidate for vice president Friday night.
And it’s also seizing the opportunity to try and siphon off supporters of Sen. A hard-fought primary had resulted in a “Never Hillary” camp among the more devoted supporters of Bernie Sanders.
■4 p.m. Monday: Headliners include First Lady Michelle Obama and U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
“Bernie supporters are outraged”, Trump tweeted. And sizable numbers of Democrats say they’re behind Clinton.
However, Ben Jealous, former head of the NAACP feels that Kaine can be pivotal in helping Clinton win over African American and Latino voters. They had been in Miami at midday for his first appearance with Clinton since joining her campaign. In 2015, Kaine again joined Warner and a group of East Coast senators pushing an offshore drilling plan.
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He also had a particularly powerful backer: President Barack Obama, who advised Clinton’s campaign during the selection process that Kaine would be a strong choice. “Both the Clintons and Tim Kaine have a lifelong history of taking money from special interests and being bought and paid by those special interests”.
