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Clinton chooses Kaine as running mate
RICHMOND, Va. (AP)
— Tim Kaine has an Elec-
tion Day tradition when his
name is on the ballot. The
avid outdoorsman votes
early, then goes hiking in
the woods with friends
and family for a few hours
of calm away from the
nervous last-minute energy
of political campaigns.
It’s a ritual that’s so far
served him well: He’s never
lost a race in his rise from
a part-time city council
member in a medium-size
city to Democratic vice
presidential running mate.
It’s also the mark of a
man, friends say, who is not
wedded to a political life
and would be happy doing
many other things.
“One of the wonderful
things about Tim is that he
does not need anybody’s
title,” said Tom Wolf, a
former law partner and
longtime friend. “You
could sit next to him on a
cross-country light, and he
would never tell you that he
was a Virginia governor or
a U.S. senator.”
Instead of wealth or
prestige, supporters and
colleagues said the former
missionary is a man moti-
vated by deep convictions
and his Roman Catholic
faith.
“I do what I do for spir-
itual reasons,” Kaine, who
declined an interview with
The Associated Press, said
on C-SPAN last month.
That grounded approach
has helped explain Kaine’s
appeal in swing-state
Virginia, where he served
as governor from 2006 to
2010 and was elected to
the U.S. Senate in 2012.
And it’s why he was long
considered a front-runner
in the race to join Hillary
AP Photo/Andrew Harnik
In this July 14 ile photo, Democratic presidential
candidate Hillary Clinton, accompanied by Sen. Tim
Kaine, D-Va., speaks at a rally at Northern Virginia
Community College in Annandale, Va.
Clinton’s
presidential
ticket.
In
Kaine,
Clinton
selected a steady and
well-practiced politician.
His supporters predicted
that Kaine would excel in
the national spotlight, and
his down-to-earth persona,
self-deprecating
humor
and habit of breaking out
a harmonica at campaign
stops would help him
connect with voters around
the country.
A whip-smart Harvard
Law School graduate,
Kaine speaks with ease
while campaigning, rarely
needing a prepared text.
In 2007, his remarks at
Virginia Tech the day after
one of the worst campus
shootings in modern U.S.
history won wide praise.
Kaine is also luent in
Spanish, thanks in part
to the year he spent in
Honduras as a Catholic
missionary before gradu-
ating from law school.
He speaks openly about
his faith and its impact
on his views on social
justice. He and his wife,
Anne Holton, are longtime
members of Richmond’s St.
Elizabeth Catholic Church,
a predominantly black
congregation in a poor part
of town. And as a private
attorney before he entered
politics, he made a name
for himself advocating for
fair housing.
Raised in Kansas City,
Missouri, where he often
worked in his father’s
welding shop, Kaine came
to Virginia after meeting
Holton at Harvard. She
is the daughter of former
Virginia Gov. A. Linwood
Holton Jr. and serves as
Virginia’s secretary of
education. They have three
children; their eldest son,
Nat, is a Marine.
Kaine has had a some-
what charmed political
rise. After serving as a
Richmond city coun-
cilmember and part-time
mayor, Kaine became the
Democratic nominee for
lieutenant governor when
the presumed candidate
dropped out following
a cancer diagnosis. And
Kaine’s election to the
Senate was only possible
because the incumbent,
Democrat Jim Webb, unex-
pectedly decided to leave
after one term.
In one of the most
divisive
elections
in
recent history, Kaine’s
political style would also
stand in stark contrast to
Republican
presidential
nominee Donald Trump’s
often incendiary rhetoric
and aggressive, personal
attacks.
Friends and colleagues
describe Kaine as someone
who prides himself on
his ability to work with a
broad spectrum of political
adversaries.
“He’s a terriic listener,”
said Mark Rubin, who was
a senior adviser to Kaine
as governor. “His style is
to be collaborative and
to work with friends and
opponents.”
But beneath the nice-guy
image, friends said Kaine
isn’t afraid of throwing
elbows while campaigning
and has a strong compet-
itive streak. He’s shown
he can win close elections
in a swing state, including
a bruising and expensive
Senate contest. And since
arriving at the Senate,
Kaine has been working
to expand Congress’ role
in voting for and declaring
war, an effort that put him at
odds with the White House.
Kaine is a close ally of
President Barack Obama,
who seriously considered
Kaine as his running mate
in 2008.
It’s another example,
friends said, of Kaine’s
self-assuredness.
John
Watkins, a Republican
former
Virginia
state
senator, predicted that
Trump “would have a hard
time getting under Tim
Kaine’s skin.”
10 dead; terrorism suspected in Munich attack
MUNICH (AP) — An
18-year-old German-Ira-
nian man opened ire in a
crowded Munich shopping
mall and a nearby McDon-
ald’s Friday night, killing
nine people and wounding
16 others before killing
himself, the chief of police
in the Bavarian capital said
Saturday.
Police gave a “cautious
all clear” early Saturday
morning, more than seven
hours after the attack began
and brought much of the
city to a standstill as all
public transit systems were
shut down amid a manhunt.
They said a body found
near the scene was that of
the shooter who appeared to
have acted alone.
Munich police chief
Hubertus Andraes told a
news conference the suspect
was a dual citizen from
Munich and his motive was
still “fully unclear.” Andraes
said the suspect’s body was
found about 2 1/2 hours
after the attack and was
determined to be the shooter
based on witness statements
and closed circuit television
footage of the attack. The
shooter was not previously
known to police and there
was no evidence of any
links to terrorist organiza-
tions, Andraes said.
Witnesses had reported
seeing three men with
irearms near the Olympia
Einkaufszentrum mall, but
Andraes said two other
people who led the area
quickly were investigated
but had “nothing to do with
the incident.”
The police chief said
the nine fatalities included
young people and chil-
dren were among the 16
wounded, three of whom
were in critical condition.
After gunire broke out
at the mall, one of Munich’s
largest, the city sent a
smartphone alert declaring
an “emergency situation”
and telling people to stay
AP Photo/Sebastian Widmann
A police oficer walks outside the Olympia mall in
Munich Friday after shots were ired. Police said
that at least ten people have been killed.
indoors, while all rail, and
subway service was halted.
It was the third major
act of violence against
civilians in Western Europe
in eight days. The previous
attacks, in the French resort
city of Nice and on a train
in Bavaria near the city of
Wuerzburg, were claimed
by the Islamic State group.
While police initially
called the mall shooting an
act of terrorism, they said
they had “no indication” it
involved Islamic extremism
and at least one witness said
he heard a shooter shout an
anti-foreigner slur.
Germany’s
Interior
Ministry said Munich police
had set up a hotline for
concerned citizens. Resi-
dents of Munich opened
their doors to people using
the hashtag #opendoor.
AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais
President Barack Obama answers questions during a
joint news conference with Mexican President Enrique
Pena Nieto in the East Room of the White House in
Washington, Friday.
Obama rejects Trump
depiction of U.S. in crisis
WASHINGTON
(AP)
— President Barack Obama
iercely rejected Donald
Trump’s depiction of an
America in crisis on Friday,
arguing that violent crime
and illegal immigration have
plunged under his leadership
to their lowest rates in decades.
Looking to November’s
election, Obama said, “We’re
not going to make good deci-
sions based on fears that don’t
have a basis in fact.”
At a news conference
alongside Mexico’s president,
Obama sought to undermine
two pillars of Trump’s speech
Thursday night in which he
accepted the Republican pres-
idential nomination. Trump
said that if he is elected, “safety
will be restored” at home and
abroad.
“This idea that American
is somehow on the verge of
collapse, this vision of violence
and chaos everywhere, doesn’t
really jibe with the experience
of most people,” Obama told
journalists.
The violent crime rate, he
said, has been lower during
his presidency than any time in
the last three or four decades.
While he acknowledged an
uptick in murders in some U.S.
cities this year, Obama said the
violent crime rate today is still
far lower than when Ronald
Reagan was president in the
1980s.
The violent crime rate has
been on a long-term decline,
receding to 366 per 100,000
people in 2014. It was 758 per
100,000 in the peak year of
1991.
Obama used the same
marker for immigration,
describing today’s rate of
illegal border crossing as only
a third of what it was during
the Reagan administration,
and lower than at any time
since. About 331,000 people
were apprehended crossing the
Mexican border illegally last
year; there were 1.6 million
arrests in 1986.
Speaking after an evening
in which Trump laid out his
case to be the next commander
in chief, Obama grimaced
Ex-KKK leader Duke runs for U.S. Senate
BATON ROUGE, La.
(AP) — Declaring “the
climate of this country has
moved in my direction,”
white supremacist David
Duke registered Friday for
Louisiana’s U.S. Senate
race, saying he was partially
spurred by the recent
shooting deaths of three law
enforcement oficers by a
black man.
“I believe my time has
come,” the former Ku
Klux Klan leader said after
submitting his paperwork for
the ballot. He added: “The
people of this country, the
patriotic, decent, God-fearing
people of this country are
now right with me.”
Duke’s candidacy comes
one day after Donald Trump
accepted the GOP nomina-
tion for president, and Duke
said he’s espoused principles
for years that are similar to
the themes Republicans are
now supporting in Trump’s
campaign, on issues such as
immigration and trade.
He said Americans are
“embracing the core issues
I have fought for my entire
life.”
Duke, 66, is registered
with the GOP, but Republi-
cans at the state and federal
level quickly denounced his
Senate bid.
Trump faced criticism
from some GOP leaders for
failing during the primary
season
to
immediately
AP Photo/Max Becherer
Former KKK leader David Duke talks with qualifying
oficer Joe R. Salter, right, at the Louisiana Secretary of
State’s ofice in Baton Rouge, La., on Friday.
denounce the tacit endorse-
ment of Duke, who once told
his radio show audience that
a vote for any other candidate
“is really treason to your
heritage.” Trump eventually
did disavow Duke.
In a lengthy speech, Duke
talked of the “massive racial
discrimination going on right
now against European Amer-
icans,” and what he called a
biased media working against
him. He called the Black
Lives Matter movement a
“terrorist organization” and
said he wanted equal rights
for everyone.
“You don’t come together
by a narrative in the controlled
media that white people are
evil and black people are
faultless. You come together
on the idea that every people
in this country have a right to
respect, every people have a
right to fairness,” he said.
Duke reacted angrily to
a question about whether he
remained involved with the
KKK. He said he was active
with the organization for four
years in the mid-1970s. He
described it “four decades
ago in a nonviolent group.”
Duke’s last tenure in
elected ofice was more
than two decades ago, in the
state legislature. He’s run
unsuccessfully for Congress.
His failed bid for governor in
1991 was one of Louisiana’s
most high-proile elections,
with Duke opponents proudly
showing bumper stickers
supporting the opponent that
read “Vote for the crook. It’s
important.”
noticeably when a reporter
suggested the billionaire busi-
nessman’s message appeals to
working-class Americans.
“It’s not really clear how
appealing it was,” Obama said.
Obama said he will let the
U.S. public decide if the vision
of Republicans or Democrats
for the nation is more persua-
sive. Hillary Clinton, Obama’s
2008 primary rival and then his
secretary of state, will receive
the Democratic nomination
next week. She is expected to
announce her running mate
soon.
Still, Obama sought to paint
a contrast between Trump’s
picture of rising crime and
uncontrolled borders and the
brighter reality he sees.
He said he hopes people
walked outside the next day
to chirping birds and sunny
skies, essentially accusing
the Republican candidate of
fearmongering and distracting
from the “real issues” of jobs,
inequality, wage stagnation,
education, the budget and the
tax system.
Mexican President Enrique
Pena Nieto, for his part, tried
to exercise restraint, saying he
is ready to work with whoever
prevails in the presidential
election. Previously, he had
likened Trump’s language to
that of Adolf Hitler or Benito
Mussolini, though he said such
comparisons were taken out of
context.
Trump
on
Thursday
repeated his assertion that he
would build a wall across the
U.S.-Mexican border “to stop
illegal immigration, to stop the
gangs and the violence, and to
stop the drugs from pouring
into our communities.” At
one point, the crowd chanted,
“Build that wall.”
Of the U.S. presidential
campaign, Pena Nieto said,
Mexico “will not give its
opinion; it will not get
involved.”
Instead, he showered
Obama with praise, calling
him a “very good neighbor”
and saying U.S.-Mexican
relations are in one of their
best ever periods.
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