“I think by temperament he is unqualified to be president”, Sanders said.
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Kaine, who was announced as Clinton’s running mate this weekend ahead of the Democratic National Convention, said using terms like “Crooked Hillary” was beneath “the kind of dialogue we should have”.
“Fe, familia & trabajo”, Kaine said in Spanish, It means, Faith, family and work and it’s how he described his time in Honduras. They say his campaign was hurt by Hillary Clinton’s overwhelming support from superdelegates.
“I’m sure he’s not going to opine on whether a carbon tax is better than a cap-and-trade mechanism”, Kaine said of the pope days before the encyclical was published in 2015. “That is not a democracy”.
Kaine – a former choir member at St. Elizabeth Catholic Church – sang a solo during Communion and his wife, Anne Holton, spoke briefly at the end of the service to tell parishioners how important they’ve been in their lives. “We served in the Senate together, obviously”.
He described being at a ceremony in which immigrants became USA citizens and said in Spanish that we are all Americans, no matter where we came from originally.
But even as the party basked in this seeming love fest, a whiff of scandal likely to rattle party unity emerged.
“Leaked e-mails of DNC show plans to destroy Bernie Sanders”. On-line from Wikileaks, really vicious.
But Sanders’ campaign manager Jeff Weaver diverged a bit from his boss’s assessment of Kaine. The DNC, by its charter, is required to be neutral among the candidates.
The first lady was among a high-wattage line-up of speakers taking the stage, all but wiping away earlier tumult that had exposed deep tensions between Clinton supporters and those loyal to her primary opponent Bernie Sanders.
It now takes 2,382 delegates to formally clinch the nomination.
And it’s at that rally that Americans got their first taste of what a Vice President Kaine would look and sound like.
In addition to his fluency on national security issues – shaping up as key in the 2016 race – his strong Spanish is seen as a major asset in cementing Clinton’s heavy lead with Hispanic voters. Kaine sang the song, “Taste and See”, from memory. It just gets me more excited. “What more do we need?”
For Clinton, it was a turbulent start to a historic four-day gathering that will culminate in the nomination of the first woman to lead a major US political party.
His comments come at a time when some of Sanders’ supporters are expressing disappointment in Kaine, suggesting that Clinton snubbed the left wing of the party. “Do you consider Tim Kaine a progressive, and are you happy with this pick?”
Debbie Wasserman Schultz speaks during a campaign event for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at the Florida State Fairgrounds Entertainment Hall, Friday, July 22, 2016, in Tampa, Fla.
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And Trump’s claim that Kaine took more than McDonnell is flat-out wrong – something proven by checking Virginia’s public records.
