Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., wrapped up his 2016 campaign duties Monday evening in Richmond, Va., arguing before an enthusiastic gathering of young supporters that Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton deserves their vote because she is persistent and battle tested.
“If you try to do something and make progress,” the Virginia lawmaker said as he regaled his audience with the story of Clinton’s involvement as first lady in the failed attempt to pass health care reform, “there are going to be people who don’t want progress.”
Kaine continued, saying, “It was difficult for her personally. This is a moment where you learn something about a person in public life or in private life. What do you do when you put it all on the line for something you care about? What do you do when you put it all on the line and you fall short and they make it personal to you?”
The senator then explained that Clinton’s subsequent involvement in getting the children’s health coverage program up and running demonstrates she’s not a quitter.
“Hillary Clinton wouldn’t back down. She wouldn’t go away. Isn’t that what you want in a president of the United States? Someone that won’t back up, won’t go away, won’t give up?” Kaine asked.
The senator’s address late Monday evening in Richmond marks his final campaign event before the Nov. 8 general election. His efforts to get out the vote for the Democratic ticket has seen him crisscrossing back-and-forth between North Carolina, Wisconsin, Iowa, Arizona and Florida, to name just a few states.
Earlier Monday evening, in Fairfax, Va., Kaine urged Virginians to avoid becoming complacent, and warned them not to become too comfortable with polling showing Clinton defeating her GOP nominee, Donald Trump.
“I like the way polls are looking sorta, but I don’t trust ’em,” the Virginia lawmaker said Monday during an address at George Mason University. “If it would’ve been easy to be a woman president there would have been a woman president.”
Kaine was joined at his rally in Fairfax by Vice President Joe Biden, who assured supporters that the country’s future has never looked brighter.
Tonight, my heart is full. I can’t wait for the next chapter. Let’s win this thing and make some history: https://t.co/EdM1KCcP5l pic.twitter.com/RXzpxx1Xny
— Tim Kaine (@timkaine) November 8, 2016
“We’re America, we don’t scare easily. We’re America, we never bend, we never bow, we never break,” Biden said. “We will own the finish line in the 21st century, I promise you.”
