Tim Kaine says Hillary Clinton's #DemConvention speech was "morning in America" https://t.co/BdhQIKIXfk https://t.co/AvdIsfSL43
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Hillary Clinton’s vice presidential nominee, Tim Kaine, on Friday dived into the role of attack dog, slamming Donald Trump’s comments about Russian hacking.
Kaine declined to say whether Trump should continue to receive classified intelligence briefings but slammed Trump for saying he hoped Russia found emails Clinton deleted from the personal server she used while secretary of State.
The Virginia senator, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services committees, said it was “outrageous” and unprecedented for a presidential candidate to call on Russia to put their “thumb” on the scale in a U.S. election.
Trump later said he was being “sarcastic” with the remark.
“I don’t have a sense of humor about cyberterrorism, and I don’t have a sense of humor about what Russia is up to,” Kaine said on CNN’s “New Day,” adding Trump wasn’t being sarcastic but “ignorant.”
Discussing Clinton’s acceptance speech Thursday night, Kaine said that while Trump brought the GOP to “midnight,” Clinton showed it’s “morning in America.”
“The Cleveland convention was dark and depressing, as she said, it was kind of midnight in America, and her speech was morning in America,” Kaine said.
“I thought it was fundamentally very upbeat, but not upbeat in generalities, I mean she’s got a set of very concrete plans,” the Virginia senator added.
Clinton played off Ronald Reagan’s 1984 slogan during her speech accepting the Democratic presidential nomination at the party’s convention on Thursday night in criticizing Trump.
Kaine also disclosed what he told Clinton when he joined her on stage Thursday night.
“It is a great country and you just made it a lot greater,” he recalled saying to Clinton on CNN.