Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., mocked Donald Trump Thursday for suggesting earlier this year he’d back out of doing the presidential debates because of scheduling overlaps with football games.
“The opening debate is Monday. Isn’t that great?” Kaine asked supporters during a campaign stop in Reno, Nevada. “Donald initially was saying he might not do the debates because he didn’t want to be up against Monday Night Football.”
“How dare the framers of the Constitution mandate that the presidential election be during football season? I mean, it’s an outrage that the Constitution requires the presidential election to be in football season,” Kaine continued to joke.
The Virginia lawmaker continued, stressing the importance of participating in the presidential election.
“I was a missionary in Honduras in 1980 and ’81. It was a military dictatorship and people couldn’t vote for president. People couldn’t vote for their leaders,” he told the crowd.
“And they prayed for the day that they could one day be able to choose their leaders. I was 21 and 22 then, and I was a registered voter and a frequent voter, but not an automatic every time voter. I took it for granted. I took it for granted. But when I lived in a place where people couldn’t do it and I saw how much they wanted to be able to do it, well, I came back and I’ve not taken it for granted since. It’s a powerful, powerful responsibility that we have,” Kaine said. “And so many people in the world don’t have what we have. They don’t have it.”
