“As Tim Kaine has said, while he supports the Hyde Amendment, he has also made it clear that he is fully committed to Hillary Clinton’s policy agenda, which he understands includes repeal of Hyde”, said Finney, who has previously worked as Clinton’s senior spokeswoman. “Isn’t that exciting? And he gets that!”
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In a statement, the Republican presidential nominee’s campaign ridiculed Clinton’s swing through Pennsylvania, noting that the Johnstown region had lost a significant number of manufacturing jobs since the North American Free Trade Agreement took effect during Bill Clinton’s presidency.
“We might as well have been talking about two different countries … or two different planets”, she said, noting that the Republican convention in Cleveland last week painted a “negative, dark picture of a country in decline”.
The most re-tweeted tweet from the final day on the DNC was courtesy of President Obama it said.
Trump says, with sarcasm, that the president was describing “his lovely world” and didn’t want to think about Americans who – due to terrorism fears – don’t “want to fly in airplanes” or “go to theaters”. Her father, Linwood Holton, was the Republican governor of Virginia (1970-1974).
“I think she picked somebody who’s a lot like Joe Biden, who’s a nice complement, sort of a soft, easy-going kind of guy”, Gelb, 60, said. But back home, Bergman said, people thought the opposite.
“We see the balance now”, Chamber said. “The theme is all about hope”. We don’t resent success in America.
He vouched for his former secretary of state’s national security credentials, praising her as someone who keeps her cool in a crisis and “never, ever quits”. Bernie Sanders, her primary season rival, saying, “I’ve heard you”. But Kaine recently told the Weekly Standard that he had not been informed of that change.
“And I’ve said ever since – if I’m good at anything, it’s because I started at the local level, listening to people, learning about their lives and trying to get results”, Kaine said. “City Council is the place where they bury budding politicians.’ But Tim handled that very well”.
Kaine, a first-term senator from Virginia and the commonwealth’s former governor, called his Christian faith “the North Star orienting my life”.
Kaine asked the audience, “Does anybody here believe that Trump ought to release his tax returns just like every other presidential candidate in modern history?”
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Biden, a loyal Democratic soldier and a popular figure within the party, said Clinton “has always been there for you”.
