Clinton opens a two-day campaign swing Friday in Florida and is expected to introduce her running mate either at a Friday afternoon rally at the state fairgrounds in Tampa or on Saturday at Florida International University in Miami. “Tim Kaine as my running mate”. On Twitter a few seconds later, Clinton described Kaine as “a man who’s devoted his life to fighting for others”. He’s an optimist and he’s a relentless believer in America and all of her potential.
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Numerous delegates thought Trump’s kids are highly accomplished and articulate. Kaine, 58, had always been a favorite for Clinton’s ticket. Fluent in Spanish and active in the Senate on foreign relations and military affairs, he built a reputation for working across the aisle as Virginia’s governor and as mayor of Richmond. She then reiterated her earlier point about the gender wage gap: “Politicians talk about wage equality, but my father has made it a practice at his company throughout his entire career”.
“He’ll come and endorse over the next little while”. Further, Clinton’s sometimes-close relationships with Sens. Clinton’s campaign largely declined to comment on the search process, trying to keep the details – even the names of the finalists – under wraps to try to maximize the impact of their announcement.
Like Clinton did tonight, Sanders threw Cruz’s words back in the GOP nominee’s face. But after Donald Trump’s closing speech at the RNC Thursday night, and with the Democratic National Convention kicking off from Philadelphia on Monday, those numbers could very well fluctuate soon.
“Our convention occurs at a moment of crisis for our nation”, an ominous-sounding Trump said, standing against a backdrop of American flags.
And while he mostly stuck to the teleprompter and avoided the egocentric musings that have characterized so many of his past speeches, his suggestion to the New York Times that he might not honor our North Atlantic Treaty Organisation commitment to come to the aid of threatened member states who didn’t pay their fair share raised new questions about his grasp of the issues with which a president must deal. A lot of us are political people, right. He learned Spanish during a mission trip to Honduras while in law school, an experience he still references on the campaign trail. Clinton selected him to join the ticket from a group of candidates that included Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, Labor Secretary Tom Perez and Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper.
If Donald Trump “didn’t share her last name, it’s fair to wonder which party Ivanka Trump would back in 2016”, wrote Philip Bump in the Washington Post, while Rebecca Traister of NY magazine asked more pointedly: “Why is Ivanka trying to pass off her caveman dad as a paragon of gender equality?”
Trump also challenged Republican orthodoxy as he promised to end multilateral trade deals and limit American intervention in global crises. On Thursday night, before taking the stage, she wore another one of her own dresses, a white sleeveless floral sheath retailing for $158.
Yes, Donald Trump’s acceptance speech was remarkably dystopian, painting a picture of America in which good citizens cower in their homes, afraid to stir lest they be mowed down by marauding immigrants. “It’s July. There is ample time for folks who need time to understand why Donald Trump is a better pick than Hillary Clinton”. Democrats offered a different assessment of the state of the nation. “They reflect really well on Trump, I think”. At a White House news conference with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, Obama said crime rates, especially those for violent crime, are lower than at any time in the past 30 years.
“We’re going to go all the way”, he said.
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Facing a restive party on the final night of a convention that has been unusually turbulent and divided, Trump seemed to make headway in galvanizing and unifying at least those Republicans gathered in the hall.
