In selecting the battleground of Florida to make her announcement, Clinton is hoping to seize the spotlight from Republicans after their convention in Cleveland. “A Clinton-Kaine administration will push our country further down the path President Obama has led us on and that has made us less safe, less prosperous, and less free”.
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“I’m thrilled to tell you this first: I’ve chosen Sen”. Clinton’s supporters were alerted of her decision via a text message on Friday, with a joint campaign rally to follow with Kaine in Miami on Saturday. “I love that about him”, Clinton said soon afterward.
Kaine, 58, edged out two other finalists – Cory Booker, a United States senator from New Jersey, and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, according to a Democratic source familiar with the discussions. Cory Booker, a black former mayor of Newark, N.J., or U.S. Labor Secretary Thomas Perez, the former assistant attorney general for the U.S. Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. Her campaign is trying to rally excitement around the Democratic ticket heading into the party’s convention next week in Philadelphia, aides said, in addition to blunting Trump’s post-convention momentum.
In his acceptance speech, Trump characterized Clinton as corrupt, incompetent and hopelessly out of touch, saying she left a legacy of “death, destruction, terrorism and weakness”. Her choice of Kaine as running mate could provide an early signal about her plan of battle against Trump. He was chairman of the DNC during the disastrous 2010 midterm elections for Democrats that saw them lose the House. “Do you want a trash-talking president or a bridge-building president?”
Democrats familiar with the search tell AP that Virginia Sen.
And in a race against the explosive, unpredictable Trump, a comfortable Clinton is ultimately a better candidate.
“Republicans will run hard against Democrats on trade this year”.
The New York billionaire painted a dystopian dark picture of an America mired in poverty and violence as he accepted his party’s nomination Thursday night, promising to restore security, clamp down on immigration and put America first. “It is still unsafe to be LGBT in America”, she said.
Top Republicans were quick to criticize Clinton’s choice.
“It’s just ideal, we’re very pro TK”, another neighbor said while walking her dog with her kids. Clinton needed a steady running mate who could be trusted and maybe help a little bit in a swing state, and that is exactly what she got with Sen.
He’s a man who saw his story rise in Richmond, but now, Tim Kaine seems poised to launch vice presidential punches.
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The thinking is if Clinton and Kaine as a team win the state of Virginia, it leaves a razor-thin path (if not a “zero” path) for victory for Republican nominees Donald Trump and Governor Mike Pence of Indiana. The 2016 Democratic Platform states that the party will “continue to fight for those families who suffered the loss of their homes” as well as “help those who are working toward a path of financial stability” by putting “sustainable home ownership into the reach of more families”. Those opposed to TTP include Mrs Clinton – and even Donald Trump. But there is intensifying speculation that her choice will be Virginia Sen. I have a moral position against the death penalty. I have relayed both publicly and privately my support for his selection and continue to think that he would be a solid choice for Ms. Clinton in the role of Vice President.
