The Virginia senator formally accepted the nomination in a speech at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on Wednesday night.
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“‘It’s gonna be great – believe me!'” the senator said.
Kaine and Clinton will hit the road as soon as the convention wraps up, touring through this swing state of Pennsylvania and then on to Ohio.
Kaine said, “Or John Kasich, the Republican Governor who had the honor of hosting the Republican Convention in Cleveland but wouldn’t even attend it because he thinks Trump is such a moral disaster”. He called Harkin’s signature legislation, the Americans with Disabilities Act, “one of the pinnacle achievements of our nation”.
Party officials said Kaine was a last-minute addition to the schedule and there had been no time to get the word out to delegates.
“Most people, when they run for president, they don’t say ‘believe me, ‘” he added.
While we still have more to see and hear from Kaine as the general election commences, it’s clear that he believes in Hillary as a presidential candidate.
That’s because in his family politics was like baseball or Hollywood. “It seemed like a complete different world”.
He brings to the podium a rich, largely unknown life story, a career path that carried him from working at a Jesuit missionary school and as a civil-rights lawyer to mayor of Richmond, governor of Virginia and now US senator.
“I haven’t lost a race”, Kaine boasted. We’re going to build a wall and make Mexico pay for it, believe me.
“The next president will face many challenges”.
Kaine’s allies say his record must be judged in totality. “I don’t trust Donald Trump”, he told the crowd, making the case for the party’s top of the ticket.
Kaine brought up his father-in-law, Linwood Holton, a former Republican governor of Virginia, in an attack on Trump.
Trump tells Fox News Channel in an interview broadcast Thursday that “I guess I take it a little bit personally, but you can’t let it get you down”.
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Before he left, Kaine was invited to the Iowa State Fair and the northern Iowa Democrats’ Wing Ding fundraiser in August.
