Two crucial priorities for the upcoming fall election campaign – defeating Donald Trump and advancing a progressive agenda for the US – have been harmed by Hillary Clinton’s selection of Tim Kaine as her running mate.
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For her part, Clinton said she won’t respond in kind.
She formally introduced her low-key Spanish-fluent ally to the crowd at Florida International University, where the student body is more than half Hispanic.
On the hacked emails, Clinton’s campaign manager, Robby Mook, tried to shift blame away from DNC officials to “Russian state actors” who, he said, may have hacked into DNC computers “for the objective of helping Donald Trump”, the Republican presidential nominee.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Seeking to bridge deep Democratic divides, Bernie Sanders robustly embraced his former rival Hillary Clinton Monday night as a champion for the same economic causes that enlivened his supporters, signaling it was time for them, too, to rally behind her in the campaign against Republican Donald Trump.
He also said that Trump is not to be trusted.
In wrapping up his remarks, Kaine paid tributes to select Democratic presidents past, adding Hillary Clinton’s name at the end.
When he highlighted his background as the son of a union ironworker and graduate of Jesuit schools, he made sure to mention his father-in-law, former Virginia Gov. Linwood Holton, a Republican who integrated the state’s public schools.
Without naming him, Kaine said he was especially moved by the story of Liviu Librescu, an engineering professor who died blocking the door as the killer attempted to enter his classroom.
Democratic vice-presidential nominee Tim Kaine told Democratic convention revelers that he and Hillary Clinton are “companeros del alma”.
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“Just saw crooked Hillary and Tim Kaine together”.
Kaine will be on the convention’s center stage tonight, addressing delegates as he accepts his party’s nomination for vice president.
Clinton’s campaign hoped the nighttime line-up would overshadow a tumultuous start to the four-day convention. She said she didn’t know how any woman could vote for him after his offensive comments.
A vague acknowledgment of Kaine’s selection as Clinton’s running mate came as the Mass reached the moment when parishioners are asked to offer prayers for specific people or needs, such as people who are sick and homebound.
The Kaines are set to attend St. Elizabeth Catholic Church, their longtime parish, on Sunday morning.
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Sanders endorsed Clinton last month but has yet to drop out of the race for the nomination despite not having the number of delegates and superdelegates necessary to secure a win. But Sanders’ aides reached out to the Clinton campaign Monday afternoon to express concerns that supporters would still try to disrupt the proceedings, according to a Democratic official.
