http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/tim-kaine-vp-rollout-226067 Kaine brings down the house in Miami
Safe, solid, and a stark contrast to Donald Trump, the Virginia senator was an obvious choice.
By Gabriel Debenedetti and Burgess Everett
07/23/16 03:07 PM EDT
MIAMI — Those close to Hillary Clinton insist she chose Tim Kaine as her running mate because she knows she can work with him, because he’s safe and solid, because he was the obvious choice.
It doesn’t hurt that he also offers her a prime opportunity to contrast with Donald Trump — over and over and over.
“Sen. Tim Kaine is everything Donald Trump and Mike Pence are not,” Clinton said to the rapturous applause of over 5,000 Miamians at Florida International University, the first of many favorable comparisons she drew between Kaine and the GOP ticket. “While he was taking on housing discrimination and homelessness, Donald Trump was denying apartments.”
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