Hillary Clinton chooses Tim Kaine as her running mate

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ORLANDO, Florida (AP) — Hillary Clinton named Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine as her vice presidential running mate Friday, adding a centrist former governor of a crucial battleground state to the Democratic ticket.

In a text message to supporters, the presumptive Democratic nominee said, “I’m thrilled to tell you this first: I’ve chosen Sen. 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.” She called him “a relentless optimist who believes no problem is unsolvable if you put in the work to solve it.”

http://www.salon.com/2016/07/23/hillary_clinton_chooses_tim_kaine_as_her_running_mate/
 
Bill said:
YAWN!!!! Why him??
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I have no idea and I've never heard of him till a week ago.

If I'm Hillary [ugh lol] my worry is mobilizing the minority vote since the white male vote is a lost cause anyway. Is there a shortage of minority democrats to choose from?

Did she want to lock up VA in November? That doesn't make a lot of sense because VA is one of, perhaps the only, swing state she has a good lead in.

I don't know why she picked him.
 
Kaine “a loyal servant of oligarchy.”

Even before Sen. Timothy M. Kaine (D-Va.) was unveiled Friday as Hillary Clinton’s running mate, liberal groups were teed up to criticize the pick.

Kaine’s boosters say that Kaine, a former Virginia governor and chairman of the Democratic National Committee, is far more progressive than many of his critics realize.

But several organizations, including some with ties to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the runner-up in the Democratic primaries, sharply questioned Kaine’s liberal bona fides, pointing to Kaine’s support of trade deals and regulations favorable to big banks.

Stephanie Taylor, the co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, worried that Kaine’s support of a pending trade deal known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership could allow Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump to “outflank” Clinton on trade.

Trump has been trying to reach out to Sanders supporters and blue-collar Democrats, arguing that his protectionist views are more in line with theirs than those of the presumptive Democratic nominee.

“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. “It’s the best way to unite the Democratic Party and stop Republicans from winning over swing voters on bread-and-butter issues.”

On Thursday, as speculation was mounting that Kaine would be Clinton’s choice, Charles Chamberlain, executive director of the activist network Democracy for America, which backed Sanders in the primaries, said that it should be “disqualifying” for any potential Democratic vice-presidential nominee to “help banks dodge consumer protection standards.”

That was based in part on a bipartisan letter that Kaine signed on Monday urging the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to “carefully tailor its rulemaking” regarding community banks and credit unions so as not to “unduly burden” these institutions with regulations aimed at commercial banks.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...-banner-low_kaineliberal-835pm:homepage/story
 
He's a boring former Governor of Virginia and Senator on the Armed Services Committee.

He is calm and smart and moderate.

It says to me that HRC feels like she does not need much help electorally or demographicly. Her internal polling must be saying something other than what the public polling is saying.
 
its official. The democrats are now the big business party. Establishment and cawacko you have found your new home :)
 
tsuke said:
its official. The democrats are now the big business party. Establishment and cawacko you have found your new home :)
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Oh man, capitalism is just a trigger for you isn't it? Enjoy joining Ivanka and Hillary in fighting that women's pay gap. Have fun making sure the gov't provides affordable quality child care to all mothers. Hopefully you'll find a safe space from the evil chamber of commerce.
 
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