Bernie Sanders would have preferred Warren as Clinton’s VP pick

Beneath the nice-guy image, friends said Kaine isn’t afraid of throwing elbows while campaigning and has a strong competitive streak.

Still in question is what role Democratic National Committee Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz will play during the convention.

“I don’t call him anything”. He is “everything that Donald Trump and [his Republican running mate] Mike Pence are not”, she said. The one upside in the speeches made on the last night of the RNC was the belated inclusion of gays and lesbians as part of GOP America, with the nominee himself, his daughter Ivanka, and billionaire Peter Thiel openly declaring that the full spectrum of sexual orientation and identity was welcome. Bloomberg, who served three terms, later became an independent and a leading advocate for gun control.

“It’s against Trump”, she said, explaining her vote.

Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon called Wasserman Schultz’s resignation an “an extraordinary gesture” to “achieve a distraction-free convention”.

Sanders pressed for Wasserman Schultz to quit as chairwoman immediately.

Economic issues are the focus, with the Democratic ticket set to stop in Harrisburg and Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, and Youngstown and Columbus in Ohio.

The schedule will include a combination of large rallies and small events, with retail politicking mixed in at times.

“When Donald Trump says he has your back, you better watch out”, Kaine said, with Clinton sitting at his side nodding.

Clinton said she won’t “engage in that kind of insult-fest that he seems to thrive on”.

“He’s just one of the members”, she said. “And look, most of us stopped the name-calling thing about fifth grade”. Sanders said on CNN’s “State of the Union” when asked about Kaine.

Carmen Hulbert, a Sanders delegates from Red Hook in Brooklyn, said no matter whom Clinton selected as vice president, she’s apathetic about the whole convention. “You know, people make fun of me sometimes because I do have plans”. “And we got some prayers and we got some support, and it really feels good”.

On Sunday morning, the Kaines attended St. Elizabeth Catholic Church, their longtime parish.

“But I think he’ll make a fine running mate with Hillary”, he said.

In choosing the soft-spoken Kaine, a former Richmond mayor and Virginia governor with a long establishment resume, Clinton opted for a steady and experienced hand who she hopes will offer a clear alternative to Trump’s volatile campaign and his Republican vice presidential choice Mike Pence.

Bernie Sanders had only nice words Sunday for his Senate colleague and soon-to-be Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine.

Forty-four percent of likely OH voters said they would vote for Trump, and 44 percent said they would vote for Clinton. Elizabeth Warren, a favorite of liberals.

“I’m not shocked, but I’m disappointed” by the exchanges in the emails, Sanders told ABC’s “This Week”.

Supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., march in Philadelphia.

Sanders was a relatively unknown Vermont senator when he chose to challenge for the Democratic nomination.

He defended his comments last week questioning whether a would-be President Trump would defend the other 27 North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies if they were attacked – a bedrock principle of the U.S.-European military alliance since the end of World War II – if they were not spending enough money on their own defense. Both also said they were eager to work with Republicans in Congress, in the vein of the work of then-House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan and then-Sen.