In response to this major political decision Kaine himself tweeted, “I’m honored to be her running mate”.
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Kaine could help Clinton in Virginia, a heavily contested swing state, and choosing Kaine will not cost Democrats a seat in the Senate, where Republicans now hold a majority. “The center of gravity in the Democratic Party has shifted in a bold, populist, progressive direction – regardless of who is selected by Hillary Clinton as Vice President”.
(Red Huber/Orlando Sentinel via AP). “Some president that will lead that charge”. Hillary Clinton continued to campaign for the general election in November.
Kaine, she argued, is a man of relentless optimism who believes no problem is unsolvable if one is willing to put in the work. And so, I think all of us who are clear, that if we want to beat Donald Trump, we’re going to have to vote for Hillary Clinton.
And at a time when American politics have rarely been more vitriolic and polarized, the even-tempered Kaine ― who grew up in the United States heartland city of Kansas City, Missouri ― has often shone as a consensus builder.
If Hillary Clinton wins the presidential election, Minnesota would claim its third vice president, however tenuous Tim Kaine’s ties to the state are. Before that he served both as mayor of Richmond and governor of Virginia. He also speaks Spanish, as he displayed last week when he joined Clinton on the campaign trail for a tryout of sorts.
“Trying to count the ways I hate @timkaine“.
On Twitter, Klouchar wrote, “Congrats to my good friend @timkaine on being @HillaryClinton’s running mate. Drawing a blank. Congrats to a good man and a good friend”. She called Kaine to tell him about 40 minutes before the announcement, and called President Barack Obama shortly after Kaine. Virginia Senator Tim Kaine is receiving praise for his wide-ranging experience, even as many delegates acknowledge he won’t generate the level of enthusiasm or party unity as a progressive or a first-ever Latino pick.
“It’s only fitting that Hillary Clinton would select an ethically challenged insider like Tim Kaine who’s personally benefited from the rigged system”.
Kaine is viewed skeptically by some liberals in the Democratic Party, who dislike his support of free trade and Wall Street.
“As we saw in Donald Trump’s speech last night, Republicans will run hard against Democrats on trade this year”, said Stephanie Taylor, co-founder, Progressive Change Campaign Committee.
That’s a weakness Clinton’s campaign seemed to recognize, and a Clinton campaign aide told NPR’s Tamara Keith that the senator had reconsidered his position on supporting for fast-tracking the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal and couldn’t support it in its current form. She made no mention of her impending pick during a somber meeting Friday with community leaders and family members affected by the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando and a later campaign rally in Tampa.
Democrats offered a different assessment of the state of the nation. The two are expected to campaign together for the first time Saturday in an appearance in Miami. He mastered Spanish when he took a year off from Harvard Law school to work as a Catholic missionary in Honduras.
As Oregon’s Democratic and Republican delegations were crisscrossing the country to and from their parties’ national conventions Friday, Virginia Sen.
Kaine, 58, is a former Governor of Virginia.
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The son of an entrepreneur ― Kaine’s father had a welding business ― he helped, as mayor, to lower taxes for small and medium-size businesses in Richmond.
