Clinton says veep pick Kaine is everything GOP ticket isn’t

“She’s a distraction on a week that is Hillary Clinton’s week”. The Democratic National Convention, where Clinton and Kaine will be nominated, begins Monday in Philadelphia. And it undermines her claim that her party’s convention would reveal markedly less disunity than the Republican convention in Cleveland last week. “People are very willing to say things about me, to make accusations about me that are – I don’t get upset about them anymore, but they are very regrettable”.

In one leaked email, a DNC official wondered whether Sanders’ religious beliefs could be used against him, questioning whether the candidate may be an atheist.

Democratic Party chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned over the weekend after Sanders’ campaign pounced on a number of leaked emails that they said showed that party officials had favored Clinton during the primaries.

Trump has repeatedly referred to Clinton as “Crooked Hillary”.

“You have helped shape us”, Holton said. Fudge said she is looking forward to a “great convention and our ongoing efforts as we work together for a strong party and a successful election”. “It’s shameful that the Clinton campaign – and, it should be said, the Obama White House – served as longtime loyal enablers for such a flagrant abuser of democratic principles”.

Obama’s former senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer said the two conventions this year are less about first impressions and more about making a second introduction. But his complaints about DNC go back to 2015 when the DNC shut down the campaign’s access to the party’s voter file database, which it was using to raise millions of small donations and contact supporters in 2016 primary and caucus states.

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In a CNN/ORC poll last week, 55 percent of Americans said they have an unfavorable view of Clinton, while 59 percent said the same of Trump. On the good side of the ledger: Clinton emphasizes important issues such as income inequality, campaign finance reform and climate change with more focus than a Clintonian Democrat from the 1990s would.

Democratic convention officials and the Clinton campaign would not say whether Wasserman Schultz would have a speaking role at all or whether she will call the convention to order today, as she did at the 2012 convention.

Democratic pollster Geoff Garin said he is realistic about how hard it is to remake Clinton’s image.

Clinton ultimately chose Tim Kaine as her VP, but the process was extensive for him and the other finalists.

“I’m not excited”, said Matthew Mousley, 36, of Springfield, who nevertheless plans to support Clinton. “There’s not going to be many more chances like this”.

The planned campaign stops in Pennsylvania come as some polls show the race tightening for the state’s 20 electoral votes; some political analysts are now saying the race is a toss-up between Clinton and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.

Sanders tells NBC’s “Meet the Press”, that Kaine is a “very, very smart guy” and a “very nice guy” but wouldn’t have been his vice presidential choice.

DNC Vice Chair Donna Brazile, a veteran Democratic strategist who will lead the party on an interim basis after the convention, warned more leaked emails, and more apologies, could be coming. Her team has drafted a schedule featuring four days of speakers who will hammer away at Trump’s “dangerous and divisive” vision for the country.

Clinton, a former USA senator and secretary of state who will accept the Democratic Party’s nomination for president on Thursday, and Kaine, a US senator from Virginia, are scheduled to campaign in downtown Harrisburg Friday night. He stressed, however, the importance of Clinton continuing to embrace a progressive vision during the general election.

“A compromise of this nature is something we take very seriously, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation will continue to investigate and hold accountable those who pose a threat in cyberspace”, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said in a statement.

Clinton is also about to pick up a coveted endorsement.

Clinton’s new running mate, Virginia Sen.

And Clinton heads into Philadelphia with a political partner. In her view, she has a straight flush heading into the fall with President Barack Obama, former President Bill Clinton, Vice President Joe Biden, Sanders and Sen.

Cohen noted “the displeasure with Kaine” among many delegates, and said that Kaine could be challenged from the floor.