Clinton Doubles Down on National Security With Tim Kaine Pick

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The Democratic nominee hopes the Virginia senator can help persuade voters Donald Trump is too dangerous to be commander-in-chief.

A Democratic presidential nominee with a résumé rich in foreign policy has just chosen a running mate with a résumé rich in foreign policy.

Hillary Clinton’s choice, first-term Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, serves on the Senate’s Foreign Relations and Armed Services committees and has emerged as a leading liberal voice on national security. He’s best-known for waging a relentless and at times lonely campaign against the White House’s ability to use military force against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria without explicit congressional authorization.

The Harvard-trained lawyer also happens to have been a mayor of Richmond, governor of Virginia, a key battleground state, and chairman of the Democratic National Committee. He is fluent in Spanish from his time as a Catholic missionary in Honduras and has been through all of this before, vetted but not ultimately chosen by the Democratic Party’s then-nominee Barack Obama in 2008.

http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/07/22/clinton-doubles-down-on-national-security-with-tim-kaine-pick/

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