A recent report from the Economist Intelligence Unit expects a Clinton presidency, with the Democrats winning a majority in the Senate.
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Hillary Clinton with Tim Kaine.
Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has named Senator Tim Kaine as her running mate. Clinton held two lengthy private meetings with Kaine, including a lunch at her NY home last Saturday with their spouses and children. Warren, signaled she’ll continue to do combat with Trump, who again called her “Pocahontas” and said “Hillary hates her” on Twitter.
Mrs Clinton says her running mate has a relentless optimism, a much-needed attribute in an election season often described as dark because of the rhetoric of Donald Trump.
In the final deliberations, Clinton was said to be weighing Kaine, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and New Jersey Sen.
Clinton’s choice came after her advisers spent months poring over potential vice-presidential candidates who could lift the Democratic ticket in an unpredictable race against the 70-year-old business tycoon. Clinton and Kaine appeared at Florida International University in Miami.
On Friday in Tampa, just hours before her vice presidential selection would be made public, she offered a determined rebuttal to the nomination acceptance speech Trump delivered the day before at the Republican National Convention, remarks that ranged from feisty to sarcastic and, ultimately, even emotional.
From the start, Kaine was a front-runner to join Clinton on the Democratic ticket.
But beneath the nice-guy image, friends said Kaine isn’t afraid of throwing elbows while campaigning and has a strong competitive streak.
Several were eliminated through the process, including Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro and James Stravidis, the former supreme allied commander of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and a retired four-star Navy admiral.
Kaine’s selection by Clinton leaves his Senate seat open. The SEIU also praised Kaine’s record as well, saying, “We know what is in Tim Kaine’s heart”.
Even as he sees to work across party lines on issues such as finding alternatives to incarceration for nonviolent offenders, Booker has a reputation of being much more liberal than Kaine. Tim Kaine as my running mate.
Kaine is considered a safe pick – a swing-state moderate who appeals to independent voters – and he was already vetted by Barack Obama’s team in 2008 (he was an early supporter of the then-Illinois senator during his primary campaign with Clinton). During his campaign for Virginia Governor in 2005, Kaine stated “no couples in Virginia can adopt other than a married couple – that’s the right policy”. “So I could give you a laundry list of things he went on to accomplish – as mayor of Richmond, governor of Virginia, and in the United States Senate”, she said. Do you want a trash-talking president or a bridge-building president?.
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Kaine is fluent in Spanish because he took a year off from Harvard to run a technical school in Honduras for a year. “I think it’s a good choice”. But it helps explain the political dimension of the Kaine pick (there’s another, more important, dimension that I’ll get to in a minute). Tim Kaine (D-VA) (L) share a moment during a campaign event at Ernst Community Cultural Center at Northern Virginia Community College July 14, 2016 in Annandale, Virginia.
