Bernie Sanders to his campaign. Kaine is a former governor and missionary from a battleground state who is fluent in Spanish.
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Beyond Florida, his language skills could be an asset for Clinton in the battleground states of Colorado, Nevada and Virginia.
Ohio’s Michael Skindell, a Sanders delegate, said Monday he planned to “strongly support the nominee of the party”.
“It always makes my heart soar when I get the chance to come out”, he said during a five minute chat with the Iowa delegates at their daily breakfast meeting.
Among the positive messages tested, Kaine’s elimination of Virginia’s estate tax and cutting the state budget by $5 billion resonated well, giving 46 percent of voters a more favorable view of him.
Kaine returned the favor, campaigning and helping McAuliffe raise money for his gubernatorial bid, and some of McAuliffe’s top staff previously worked for Kaine.
One upside is that Kaine and his wife, who is secretary of education for Virginia, have both been big supporters of public education, Benet said.
Kaine, for his part, described himself as a “utility player”.
Speaking to his convention delegates, just hours before the Democrats opened a convention to nominate his primary rival, the Vermont senator tried to settle roiling tensions between his supporters and the party rank-and-file lining up behind Clinton. Tim Kaine as her running mate. “I’m a little disappointed he’s not more progressive in some areas”. She cited Kaine’s support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement as a disappointment. Senator Tim Kaine will address the DNC, but there is work to be done, with divisions still on display. Sherrod Brown of OH or Warren. And I gotta be honest with you. He is more conservative than I am. “It is certainly true I have made mistakes”. “If a secretary had a problem with a partner, they would go to Tim and he would work it out”.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said Wednesday, July 27, 2016, that presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s vice presidential running mate, U.S. Sen.
Kaine was vetted for the job in 2008 but was a runner-up to then-Sen.
Sizable numbers of Democrats say they’re behind Clinton.
Ms. Clinton’s campaign manager, Robby Mook, tried to shift blame for the email hack away from DNC officials and onto “Russian state actors” who, he said, may have breached DNC computers “for the objective of helping Donald Trump”, the Republican presidential nominee. Referring to Trump’s penchant for tweeting, she said of the presidency: “It can not be boiled down to 140 characters”.
They’ll highlight lesser-known parts of her biography, such as her early work as an activist for children and families, her push to expand federal health insurance to millions of children as first lady and her advocacy for 9/11 first responders as a NY senator. He has upheld Roe v. Wade and told Chuck Todd of “Meet the Press”: “I have taken the position, which is quite common among Catholics – I have got a personal feeling about abortion, but the right rule for government is to let women make their own decisions”.
One of the issues that has been hard for Clinton to shake is that of her private email server – she promised it wouldn’t be a mistake she’d make twice.
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From the podium, however, some of Sanders’ allies noted their progress in influencing the party’s platform and moving to reduce the influence of superdelegates, the party leaders and elected officials who helped decide the nomination.
