“Nobody dislikes Tim Kaine”, said Lynch.
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“It’s now more important than ever that Hillary Clinton run an aggressive campaign on core economic ideas like expanding Social Security, debt-free college, Wall Street reform, and yes, stopping the TPP”, Taylor said.
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton campaigns with U.S. Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia during a rally in Northern Virginia on July 14.
Kaine also earned high marks for his stewardship of the state after the Virginia Tech Massacre, at the time the worst mass shooting in US history. “So I could give you a laundry list of things he went on to accomplish-as mayor of Richmond, governor of Virginia, and in the United States Senate”, she said. Sherrod Brown, D-OH, to appeal to the more then 40 percent of primary voters who backed Bernie Sanders. It used to be solidly Republican, but President Obama won in 2008 and 2012.
Trump’s choice of running mate, a conservative evangelical Christian and former congressman, could serve to reassure voters alarmed by his rhetoric.
“It would send a message that she’s not even pretending to pander to us, which is both refreshingly honest and alarming”.
Kaine, 58, edged out two other finalists – Cory Booker, a USA senator from New Jersey, and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, according to a Democratic source familiar with the discussions.
Still, Kaine is not the progressive firebrand Sen.
“Clinton is signaling to the Sanders voters that she does not have to move in their direction, she does not have to pick a Vice President from their end of the party in order to get their votes”. Obama said Friday that Trump painted a picture that “doesn’t really jibe with the experience with most people”. “There is no question about Tim Kaine’s ethics, his morality, nor about his competence, if that’s who she chooses”.
“I love that about him”, she told Charlie Rose of CBS News and PBS. He has never lost an election.
He is one of just 20 people to have served as a mayor, governor and US senator.
Trump’s senior communications adviser Jason Miller says “the Status Quo ticket of Clinton-Kaine wants us to believe in a rigged system that enriches them at your expense”.
But Senator Kaine backed Mr Obama’s plans for clean energy and publicly opposed the construction of the giant – and hugely controversial – Keystone XL oil pipeline.
The biggest moment for any vice presidential candidate is the nationally televised debate.
If you want FiveThirtyEight’s trademark measured take, the Kaine pick probably won’t have any real impact on the outcome of the election.
Staff at Clinton’s Brooklyn headquarters gathered for a 3 p.m. meeting Friday, where some expected to hear the name of her running mate. “Can’t wait to hit the trail tomorrow in Miami!”
“You could sit next to him on a cross-country flight, and he would never tell you that he was a Virginia governor or a USA senator”. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack was said to have been on her shortlist. He supports a no-fly zone around Syria, which the Democrat-Republicans always support when conquering oil rich countries. But Salazar, a longtime party strategist, called Kaine “a pretty solid choice”.
Top Republicans were quick to criticize Clinton’s choice.
According to a Clinton campaign official, the former secretary of state called Kaine this evening to make the formal offer.
“I first met Tim Kaine in law school 37 years ago, and our paths crossed years later in Virginia politics. Drawing a blank. Congrats to a good man and a good friend”.
Although Mr Obama instead picked Joe Biden as his No 2, Senator Kaine helped Mr Obama turn Virginia from red to blue – the first time the state had chosen a Democrat for president since it voted for Lyndon B Johnson in 1964. And Kaine’s election to the Senate was only possible because the incumbent, Democrat Jim Webb, unexpectedly chose to leave after one term.
Kaine supports legislation that would roll back some mandatory minimum federal sentences and give judges more discretion, although his office says he still supports firm sentences for illegal gun possession.
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“It’s not the Donald Trump sledgehammer”. “I think he would be a great Vice President”. “My faith position is a Good Samaritan position of trying to watch out for the other person”. He played an important role in securing congressional review of the 2015 global deal on Iran’s nuclear program, although he eventually backed it.
