On Thursday, Clinton senior adviser John Podesta said Trump “is temperamentally unfit and totally unqualified to be president of the United States”.
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Trump concluded the Republican convention on Thursday night with an acceptance speech denouncing Clinton’s legacy of “death, destruction, terrorism and weakness” as USA secretary of state.
On the map to victory for both candidates, winning Virginia, Florida and rust belt states of Ohio, Pennsylvania and MI can be make or break.
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As Tennessee Democrats immediately praised Hillary Clinton’s selection of U.S. Sen.
Several Latinos were said to be on Clinton’s short list of potential running mates, including Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro, Perez and California Congressman Xavier Becerra.
“To him it doesn’t matter if you are a new immigrant or you’re a worker who’s been here a long time or a Dreamer”, Kaine said.
Kaine, a self-described “boring” Virginian, could appeal to independents and moderates. Tim Kaine was waiting. The avid outdoorsman votes early, then goes hiking in the woods with friends and family for a few hours of calm away from the nervous last-minute.
Clinton finalized her ticket a day after Republicans wrapped up their national convention in Cleveland, Ohio.
Hillary Clinton (L) has picked Tim Kaine as her running mate in the U.S. presidential election. “Clinton’s ability to make good decisions on behalf of the American people”.
“Trying to count the ways I hate @timkaine”. Jeff Flake wrote on Twitter.
“As we saw in Donald Trump’s speech last night, Republicans will run hard against Democrats on trade this year”, the group said in a statement Friday. He supports women’s right to choose abortion, favours gun control measures and most importantly, “Kaine has demonstrated how Democrats can win in the southern states that have changed most rapidly in the last decade”, according to The Guardian. Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign, Garcetti’s political consultant Bill Carrick explained.
The Republican National Committee dismissed the ticket as the “failed Democratic status quo”.
Notably, a campaign aide said Kaine made clear “in the course of discussions” that he shares Clinton’s opposition to TPP in its current form.
But the author Nate Silver, says polls show Clinton with a small-ish lead over Trump in Virginia – so if Kaine boosts her numbers there, even by a couple percentage points, it’s better than no boost. She is set to visit Orlando and Tampa on Friday, but her Kaine is not expected to join her until Saturday at a rally here at Florida International University, where the student body is more than half Hispanic. Mr. Kaine is also very fluent in Spanish.
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One of the first to react to the announcement was House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi who called Kaine “an exceptional choice”. Tim Kaine was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2012. Both Republicans and Democrats for what they say are racist remarks. His wife, Anne Holton received her law degree from HLS the same year.
