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Clinton Pick Picks Tim Kaine as VP Running Mate

<p>Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has picked former Virginia Governor and current Virginia Senator Tim Kaine as her running mate&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Tim Kaine is a popular career politician&comma; who progressed from Mayor of Richmond to Lieutenant Governor of Virginia&comma; to Governor&comma; to U&period;S&period; Senator&period; Mrs&period; Clinton has noted he has &&num;8220&semi;never lost an election&&num;8221&semi;&period; &nbsp&semi;He is a graduate of Harvard Law School&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Kaine may be a good choice for Clinton since Virginia is considered a swing state&period; As a former Chair of the Democratic National Committee&comma; Kaine may also bring substantial fundraising resources to the Clinton Campaign&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This selection angered some former Bernie Sanders supports since Kaine is a supporter of the Trans Pacific Partnership trade agreement&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;An establishment Wall Street Democrat like Tim Kaine &hellip&semi; will do nothing but confirm to progressives she&&num;8217&semi;s learned nothing from this primary&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said Jordan Chariton of the Sanders-supporting online talk show &&num;8220&semi;The Young Turks&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to a Newmax article&comma; Kaine&&num;8217&semi;s &&num;8220&semi;crimebusting&&num;8221&semi; past may hurt him with the black vote&period; His past strategies for fighting crime have driven up the prison population and have been very unpopular in the black community&period; Kaine was a vocal supporter of Project Exile&period; According to Wikipedia&comma; Project Exile is a federal program started in Richmond&comma; Virginia in 1997&period; Project Exile shifted the prosecution of illegal technical gun possession offenses to federal court&comma; where they carried a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in federal prison under the federal Gun Control Act of 1968&comma; rather than in state court&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Donald Trump texted to supporters&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Tim Kaine is Hillary&&num;8217&semi;s VP pick&comma; the ultimate insiders &mdash&semi; Obama&comma; Hillary&comma; and Kaine&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Editor&&num;8217&semi;s note&colon;<&sol;strong> This guy has always reminded me of the Joker on Batman &lpar;Jack Nicholson version&rpar;&period; But he is probably more qualified to be President than Hillary&comma; and as far as we know has not committed as many crimes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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