(AP Photo/John Locher). Democratic Vice Presidential candidate, Sen.
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Kaine brought his personal story to the stage: He was born in Minnesota and grew up in Kansas City, helped out in his father’s iron shop, and was educated in a Jesuit boys’ school, where “my faith became something vital”.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Facing a backlash from the left, Virginia Sen.
Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine mocked Donald Trump for confusing him with a New Jersey politician and said the blunder is proof that Trump is trying to “learn on the fly” as he runs for president.
After days of jeering from “Bernie-or-Bust” supporters, it remains to be seen whether U.S. President Barack Obama can unite the Democratic Party to back his one-time rival Hillary Clinton.
He was officially nominated as the party’s nominee after a voice vote on the floor of the convention this afternoon.
Kaine attempted to turn one of Trump’s most repeated phrases, “believe me”, against him as he listed examples of the Republican nominees actions contradicting his campaign promises.
And just to stick the knife in, Kaine cited Republicans who have trashed Trump, even invoking the words of the man who co-wrote The Art of the Deal. Donald Trump has a passion too. But, like Elizabeth Warren, he’s a Democratic senator in in a state with a Republican governor. There was a smattering of voiced opposition from a small number of Bernie Sanders diehards, who chanted “Feel the Bern” and spoke out against the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement.
Vouching for Clinton wasn’t Kaine’s only job during his star turn at the Wells Fargo Center.
“I didn’t start it with a million dollar check from my father”.
Growing up in his father’s “Iron Workers-organized welding shop”, Kaine, 58, said he never had reason to think he would be running for vice president.
Kaine’s allies, both in the Clinton and Sanders’ camps, say his record must be judged in totality.
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Kaine says it was hard work steering his state through the recession, but he says, “Hey, tough times don’t last – and tough people do”. “If you had told me, or if you had told my parents who are 81 and with me this week, that I was gonna be here in July of 2016, they would not have believe it”, Kaine told delegates from Iowa at breakfast Wednesday morning.
