Kaine makes hard play for Arizona, in Spanish

Published November 4, 2016 2:27am ET



Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., drew a sharp contrast between the campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Thursday evening as he made a hard push for Latino voters with an address delivered entirely in Spanish.

“A few years ago, I gave the first speech ever delivered in Spanish on the Senate floor. Since we were debating a bill about immigration, explaining it in Spanish just made sense – especially since it’s the language of more than 40 million people in this country who are most affected by this issue,” the Democratic vice presidential candidate said, according to a translation provided to the Washington Examiner by the Clinton campaign.

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