“That’s just my kind of guy”, she added.
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But the decision is Hillary Clinton’s and hers alone, and a critical one in her quest to defeat Donald Trump and win the White House in November.
Kaine, 58, had always been a favorite for Clinton’s ticket.
Trump wrote that Sen. John McCain’s time as a prisoner of war.
“After leading President Obama’s disastrous foreign policy in the Middle East, Hillary Clinton’s selection of Senator Kaine as her running mate further proves she can not be trusted to keep our country safe”, RJC’s executive director Matt Brooks said in a press release. Cory Booker and Massachusetts Sen. He later served as Democratic National Committee chairman for the first two years of Obama’s presidency.
Delegates were heading to Philadelphia for the convention starting Monday, with those who support Sanders indicating uncertainty about embracing a Clinton ticket.
Democrats argue that Kaine could help her woo moderate and even some Republican voters turned off by Trump’s provocative rhetoric, which was at the centre of his 75-minute acceptance speech on Thursday night. “We look forward to educating our fellow Americans about the real Tim Kaine”.
“I want someone who can become president immediately”, Clinton said recently on CNN.
“The most important consideration is his ability to step in as president, and he clearly has the experience, knowledge, intelligence and temperament to do that”, Bucaro said.
“It’s a good pick”.
Dominion donated more than $250,000 to Kaine’s statewide political campaigns and inaugurations between 2001 and 2008, according to the Virginia Public Access Project, a nonpartisan open government group.
While Kaine has a record of fighting for a number of progressive causes, like fair housing and gun control, he has also supported the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade pact with Pacific Rim nations that is a major flash point with the left and also opposed by Trump. “We passed the largest state tax cut in IN history, lowered the corporate income tax, reduced the regulatory burden, and have taken numerous other measures to improve the business environment and the education and workforce skills of Hoosiers”, Governor Pence wrote.
The pair will hit the campaign trail together in Florida on Saturday. It’s not a terribly likely strategy, but perhaps Trump’s more explicit appeal to white resentment gives him a shot.
That grounded approach has helped explain Kaine’s appeal in swing-state Virginia, where he served as governor from 2006 to 2010 and was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2012.
“He is a genuinely nice person, but Tim is no one’s punching bag”. Kaine endorsed Clinton early in the primary and campaigned for her in several states.
Republicans quickly faulted Kaine.
David Botkins, a Dominion spokesman, said Kaine “has supported the development of affordable, cleaner energy sources in Virginia and throughout the United States”. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was “right” to refuse to endorse Donald Trump at the Republican National Convention.
Notably, a campaign aide said Sen.
In an election year where the Democratic base fell in love with the pugnacious styles Sanders and Warren, Kaine’s low-key, nice-guy persona feels like a bit of a letdown.
Still, Sanders’ most powerful proxy, Sen.
In June, she called the Republican nominee a “thin-skinned, racist bully”; in turn, Trump said the MA senator was “very racist” for claiming she had Native American heritage while teaching at Harvard University in the 1990s.
“I want a diverse congressional delegation, no question in my mind”, McAuliffe said. “Calling you out and holding you responsible for your reckless vision for America”, Warren tweeted.
The Clinton campaign selected Kaine over a roster of at least three other senators and two Cabinet secretaries to Obama.
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Tim Kaine received praise for his wide-ranging experience, even as many delegates acknowledged that he would not generate the level of enthusiasm or party unity as a progressive or first-ever Latino pick.
