Tim Kaine, America’s Dad, Makes His Pitch to Millennials

Faced with polls showing that many young voters intend to cast their ballots for the Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson or the Green candidate Jill Stein, or for no one at all, the Hillary Clinton campaign has sent Chelsea Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren to Ohio. On Thursday, the Democratic Vice-Presidential nominee, Tim Kaine, arrived in New Hampshire to see what he could do about the problem. First up was a panel discussion with a group of young professionals, in Portsmouth. As props, Kaine had brought copies of Clinton’s campaign book (“Fifteenth on the New York Times best-seller list!” he said) and Donald Trump’s, which is titled “Crippled America.” Kaine considered the Clinton book’s cover, with a photograph of Clinton and Kaine raising their arms in a victory pose. “We’re both smiling,” he pointed out. Trump, he said, had contrived to look both condescending and sour in his, “sitting in a penthouse, looking like he’s sucking on six lemons.” Kaine said he had a fundamentally different view of Americans than the billionaire: “We are an optimistic, can-do, patriotic, problem-solving people.”