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Index:
1. Tim Kaine Could Be Hillary Clinton's Safest VP Option Yet
2. Tim Kaine is sitting pretty in Hillary Clinton’s veepstakes
3. Bernie not endorsing Hillary because he hasn’t heard what he wants to hear
4. National poll shows Hillary surging to a 13% over Trump
5. State polls looking good
6. Hillary on Brexit: “underscores the need for calm, steady, experienced leadership in the White House”
7. Clinton campaign blasts Trump's 'reckless, egomaniac' Brexit response
8. Donald Trump is confused on Brexit
9. 4-4 Supreme Court ruling dooms Obama’s Immigration Exec action.
10. Hillary: Supreme Court 'unacceptable' on immigration ruling
11. Hillary expressing thoughts about gay youth and equal pay for women in tweets
1. Tim Kaine Could Be Hillary Clinton's Safest VP Option Yet
I must say, the chatter emerging around Tim Kaine as the most likely option for VP is not making me too happy. He is not Progressive enough for my taste.
Tim Kaine Could Be Hillary Clinton's Safest VP Option Yet
With just a month to go until the Democratic National Convention, Hillary Clinton has her eyes set on a groundbreaking vice presidential pick: U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia.
OK, so Kaine isn't exactly a game-changing pick. He resembles most historical veep picks: old white men. But Kaine comes from a swing state, speaks Spanish and was actually close to being VP eight years ago.
Either way, Kaine tops a list that includes Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro. Each of those picks hit a pretty significant voting bloc: women, blacks and Hispanics and, if Clinton is elected, would be historical firsts.
2. Tim Kaine is sitting pretty in Hillary Clinton’s veepstakes
If Hillary Clinton had to pick her vice presidential running mate today, I think she'd pick Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine.
Here's why.
The defining trait of Clinton's political career is caution. She doesn't ever leap before she looks -- and looks and looks. Part of this is a function of the fact that Clinton doesn't have great natural political instincts -- a fact she has repeatedly acknowledged during this campaign. It's also the result of being enemy No. 1 (or, at worst, No. 2) for Republicans for most of the past two-plus decades. You'd probably be pretty wary of what you said and did if you had been at the center of that storm since 1992.
Hillary hasn’t been all that cautious. She is unapologetically Progressive when she could have pivoted to the political center after clinching the nomination to make moderates and conservatives happy.
Anyway, talk me down, people. Kaine?
3. Bernie not endorsing Hillary because he hasn’t heard what he wants to hear
Bernie (aka the entitled one) has said that he didn’t endorse Hillary yet because he didn’t hear what he needs to hear from her:
Sanders: Clinton hasn’t said what I need to hear
Bernie Sanders says he is hesitating over endorsing Hillary Clinton as she avoids issues he holds dear.
“I haven’t heard her say the things I think need to be said,” he said on “CBS This Morning.”
Sanders then articulated how Clinton could win his backing after their battle over the Democratic presidential nomination.
“I want her to say, among other things, we have a crisis in higher education,” he said. "Public universities and colleges should be tuition-free. Raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour.
“I believe that healthcare should be a right of all people. I would love for her to say that and move forward aggressively to make that happen.”
Sanders said he remains unsure if and when he could endorse Clinton’s presidential bid.
“We’re talking,” the Independent Vermont senator said. "I can’t give you that answer. It’s not just me," he said referring to his supporters.
Asked if he would back Clinton before next month’s Democratic National Convention, he said, “I would hope that that would happen, or it may not happen.”
Bernie is clearly making demands that Hillary adopt his platform whole or else he won’t endorse her. Since that will never happen, Hillary will NEVER adopt Bernie’s platform (the one he lost with), he is setting up a no endorsement plea, even at the convention, and wants to blame Hillary for it. That’s what this looks like to me.
4. National poll shows Hillary surging to a 13% over Trump
13% lead for Hillary in Reuters/Ipsos poll
A combination of Hillary becoming more and more the candidate of choice for former Bernie supporters plus Trump acting even more the fool are the reasons Hillary is looking good against Trump in national polling at the moment.
5. State polls looking good
A recent set of state polls are good news for Hillary and all Democrats
Poll: Clinton leads Trump in Arizona
A new poll shows Hillary Clinton running ahead of Donald Trump in Arizona, where a Democratic presidential candidate has carried the state only once in the last 64 years.
A survey by Phoenix-based OH Predictive Insights found Clinton taking 46.5 percent support over Trump at 42.2 percent.
TRUMP AND CLINTON TIED IN NORTH CAROLINA
A new poll from Public Policy Polling shows Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are neck-and-neck in North Carolina.
The two presumptive Republican and Democrat nominees are tied with 43 percent. Libertarian Gary Johnson has 4 percent, Green Party candidate Jill Stein sits at 2 percent, and 7 percent say they're undecided.
Hillary Clinton has moved up in Florida in the past six weeks and Donald Trumphas slipped, combining to give her an 8-point lead among the state's voters.
A Quinnipiac Poll released Tuesday shows Clinton ahead of Trump in Florida 47 percent to 39 percent. The former secretary of state led by just 1 point on May 10. In August, Trump was ahead by 2 points.
"Secretary Hillary Clinton is pulling ahead in Florida," Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac Poll, wrote in an analysis of polling in three big states. "It is Hillary Clinton's best state and perhaps Donald Trump's toughest lift. One reason might be Florida has a larger Hispanic population than the other two states, and Trump has clashed with Hispanic leaders over some of his remarks."
Florida is critical to the presidential election. The winner gets 29 electoral votes, more than 10 percent of the total needed to win the presidency. And the state has a history of exceedingly close elections in which a small number of votes determine the statewide result.
6. Hillary on Brexit: “underscores the need for calm, steady, experienced leadership in the White House”
Hillary Clinton Statement on Brexit Vote
“We respect the choice the people of the United Kingdom have made. Our first task has to be to make sure that the economic uncertainty created by these events does not hurt working families here in America. We also have to make clear America’s steadfast commitment to the special relationship with Britain and the transatlantic alliance with Europe. This time of uncertainty only underscores the need for calm, steady, experienced leadership in the White House to protect Americans’ pocketbooks and livelihoods, to support our friends and allies, to stand up to our adversaries, and to defend our interests. It also underscores the need for us to pull together to solve our challenges as a country, not tear each other down.”
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7. Clinton campaign blasts Trump's 'reckless, egomaniac' Brexit response
Clinton campaign blasts Trump's 'reckless, egomaniac' Brexit response
Declaring the aftermath of Brexit a "time of uncertainty," Hillary Clinton on Friday said the United Kingdom's decision to exit the European Union raises the stakes for the November election against Donald Trump as her campaign's top advisers laced into the Republican as unfit to handle the weight of the moment.
"This time of uncertainty only underscores the need for calm, steady, experienced leadership in the White House to protect Americans' pocketbooks and livelihoods, to support our friends and allies, to stand up to our adversaries, and to defend our interests," the presumptive Democratic nominee said in a statement. "It also underscores the need for us to pull together to solve our challenges as a country, not tear each other down."
In time of crisis countries turn to steady leadership.
Clinton foreign policy adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters in a conference call that the presumptive Republican nominee "proves again and again that he is temperamentally unfit for the job." On the same day, Trump devoted a significant portion of a news conference in Scotland to discussing his renovated Turnberry golf course."The American people need a steady hand at times of uncertainty, not a reckless egomaniac," Sullivan said.
"Donald Trump actively rooted for this outcome and the economic turmoil in its wake," Sullivan said of the Brexit vote, adding that from Clinton's perspective, it really matters who's actually sitting in the Oval Office."
"We have the wherewithal to help American families to weather all kinds of storms, but it takes strong, effective leadership — but Donald Trump just doesn't have it," Sullivan added.
8. Donald Trump is confused on Brexit
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No, Donald. Scotland did NOT go wild over the vote and “took their country back”, you doofus. Scotland voted to STAY in the EU. It was England that voted, in a close one, to exit the EU. And many of those who voted for exit are already regretting it. Sheesh.
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9. Supreme Court deadlock and 4-4 ruling dooms Obama’s Immigration Exec action.
Supreme Court Tie Dooms Obama Immigration Policy
The U.S. Supreme Court split 4-4 Thursday over a challenge to President Barack Obama's immigration policy, a result that prevents the administration from putting the program into effect during the rest of his term.
The split was reflected in a one-sentence statement from the court: "The judgment is affirmed by an equally divided Court."
Announced in late 2014, the policy sought to shield more than 4 million people — mostly Latinos — from deportation. But lower courts blocked its implementation after Texas and 25 other states sued, claiming the president had no power to order the changes.
We need that 5th Supreme Court to be a Progressive to move us forward.
10. Hillary: Supreme Court 'unacceptable' on immigration ruling
Clinton: Supreme Court 'unacceptable' on immigration ruling
The deadlocked Supreme Court decision derailing President Barack Obama’s executive actions on immigration is “unacceptable,” Hillary Clinton said Thursday, leading a chorus of Democrats condemning the tie.
The high court split 4-4 Thursday morning, leaving in place a lower court ruling preventing the president from launching a new program that would grant “deferred action” status to undocumented immigrants who are parents of U.S. citizens or green card holders.
Clinton argued that the ruling was “purely procedural and casts no doubt” on the fact that Obama’s actions are within his legal authority and vowed to introduce comprehensive immigration reform with a path to citizenship within the first 100 days of her administration. But she also stressed that the impact of the split decision, made possible by a vacancy on the high court, shows how high the stakes are in this election.
“In addition to throwing millions of families across our country into a state of uncertainty, this decision reminds us how much damage Senate Republicans are doing by refusing to consider President Obama’s nominee to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court,” Clinton said in a statement. “Our families and our country need and deserve a full bench, and Senate Republicans need to stop playing political games with our democracy and give Judge Merrick Garland a fair hearing and vote.”
The decision is also a reminder of “the harm Donald Trump would do to our families,” added Clinton, who maintained that America is stronger together, embracing, not denigrating, immigrants and building walls, not bridges.
“Trump has pledged to repeal President Obama’s executive actions on his first day in office,” Clinton said. “He has called Mexican immigrants ‘rapists’ and ‘murderers.’ He has called for creating a deportation force” to tear 11 million people away from their families and their homes. I believe we are stronger together.”
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11. Hillary expressing thoughts about gay youth, equal pay, and stonewall for women in tweets