Fairfax, Va.—Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine urged Virginians Monday night not to rely on polling showing Hillary Clinton ahead in the commonwealth.
“I like the way polls are looking sorta, but I don’t trust ’em,” Kaine said at George Mason University on the eve of the election. “If it would’ve been easy to be a woman president there would have been a woman president.”
Kaine took the stage following Vice President Joe Biden at a nighttime rally outdoors where the temperature dipped near 40 degrees. The rally also functioned as a send-off for Biden in front of a sympathetic audience, and the crowd spontaneously broke into chants of “Joe” in the middle of Kaine’s speech.
Biden served as Kaine’s opening act, and told the crowd that he was more optimistic about the future now than ever before.
“We’re America, we don’t scare easily. We’re America, we never bend, we never bow, we never break,” Biden told the crowd. “We will own the finish line in the 21st century, I promise you.”
The rally came two days after Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence joined Ed Gillespie on George Mason University’s campus. Pence and Kaine’s crowds appeared similar in size, although Pence drew an overflow crowd indoors that his wife spoke to during his rally.
The Kaine’s crowd was also noticeably younger.
