>> hillary! hillary! hillary! hillary! hillary! hillary! [cheers and applause] mrs. clinton: hello, miami! [cheers and applause] mrs. clinton: i am so excited and grateful to be here with all of you. [cheers and applause] mrs. clinton: i must say, after everything we have just seen at the republican convention this past week -- [booing] mrs. clinton: being here with you on this beautiful day is truly like a breath of fresh air.

[cheers and applause] mrs. clinton: when i look out at all of you, you know what i see? i see america's future. [cheers and applause] mrs. clinton: instead of the fear and the anger and the resentment, the lack of any solutions to help working families get ahead or keep our country safe, i sense the confidence, the optimism that, you know what? we are stronger together, and we are going to make that future better. [cheers and applause] mrs. clinton: donald trump may think america is in decline, but he is wrong. america's best days are still ahead of us, my friends. [cheers and applause]

mrs. clinton: and when he says, as he did say, "i alone can fix it" -- [booing] mrs. clinton: he is not only wrong, he's dangerously wrong. [cheers and applause] mrs. clinton: we americans, we solve problems together. senator kaine: that's right. >> [crowd answers, "yes"] mrs. clinton: and if donald does not understand that, he doesn't understand america. [cheers and applause] mrs. clinton: i know that no one does anything all alone. and part of our challenge is to make sure we do work together. i am looking forward to working with your elected officials. i want to thank senator bill nelson, who was with me yesterday in orlando and tampa. [cheers and applause]

mrs. clinton: i want to thank congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz. [cheers and applause] mrs. clinton: and i am looking forward to working with her and with congresswoman frederica wilson. [cheers and applause] mrs. clinton: and congressman alcee hastings. [cheers and applause] mrs. clinton: and i want to thank all of the elected officials from all levels of government who are in here and supporting our campaign and our vision for the country. [cheers and applause] mrs. clinton: now, next week -- next week in philadelphia, we will offer a very different vision for our country, one that is about building bridges, not walls. [cheers and applause] mrs. clinton: embracing the

diversity that makes our country great. [cheers and applause] mrs. clinton: lifting each other up, standing together, because we know there is nothing we can't accomplish once we make up our minds. [cheers and applause] mrs. clinton: and that's why i am so thrilled to announce that my running mate is a man who doesn't just share those values, he lives them. [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] mrs. clinton: i have to say -- i have to say that senator tim kaine is everything donald trump and mike pence are not.

[cheers and applause] mrs. clinton: he is qualified to step into this job and lead on day one, and -- [cheers and applause] mrs. clinton: he is a progressive who likes to get things done. [cheers and applause] mrs. clinton: that's -- that's just my kind of guy, tim. [laughter] mrs. clinton: we both grew up in the midwest. we were raised by fathers who ran small businesses and who taught us about the dignity of work and the discipline of a job well done, and in both of our families, faith wasn't just something you talked about at church on sundays. it was a call to serve others in every way that we can. [cheers and applause]

mrs. clinton: and as you get to know senator kaine, you will see that tim's lifelong commitment to social justice is a shining example of his faith in action. you know, during law school, when his fellow classmates were taking internships at prestigious law firms, he took time off to work with missionaries in honduras. [cheers and applause] mrs. clinton: and after he graduated from harvard law school, he could have done anything. but instead, he chose to become a civil-rights lawyer. [cheers and applause]

mrs. clinton: one of his first cases was a pro bono case, representing a woman who was denied an apartment because she was african-american. [booing] mrs. clinton: so while tim was taking on housing discrimination and homelessness, donald trump was denying apartments to people who were african-american. [booing] mrs. clinton: he is still fighting those battles today, serving as a nonpartisan city council member, and then the mayor of richmond, virginia. [cheers and applause] mrs. clinton: he worked hard to bridge racial divides, he built the first new schools in a generation, he helped turn that struggling city around, and as governor of virginia, he led the

commonwealth through the worst financial crisis in a generation. what did he do? he brought democrats and republicans together to protect the programs that working families count on. [cheers and applause] mrs. clinton: and while mike pence slashed education funding in indiana -- [booing] mrs. clinton: and gave more tax cuts to the wealthiest -- [booing] mrs. clinton: tim kaine cut his own salary and invested in education from pre-k through college and beyond. [cheers and applause]

mrs. clinton: and by the time tim left office, 40% more of virginia's kids were enrolled in early-education programs. [cheers and applause] mrs. clinton: and then, as a united states senator, tim has used his positions on the foreign relations and armed services committees to stand up for our veterans and our values and our men and women in uniform and our security. [cheers and applause] mrs. clinton: now, there's no doubt in my mind, because i'm here with him -- [laughter] mrs. clinton: that tim is so qualified to be vice president, and as i have said many times, the most important qualification when you are trying to make this really big choice is, can this person step in to be president?

well, at every stage of tim's career, the people who know him best have voted to give him a promotion, and that's because -- [cheers and applause] mrs. clinton: that is because he fights for the people he represents, and he delivers real results. now, i can't wait for all of you to get to know him the way that i have, the proud father of three grown-up kids, who have their own lives and are making their own contributions, including serving our country. a -- [cheers and applause] mrs. clinton: a loving husband of a brilliant wife, who -- [cheers and applause] mrs. clinton: is a great fighter

for progressive causes in her own right. a leader who cares more about making a difference than making headlines, and -- [cheers and applause] mrs. clinton: and make no mistake. behind that smile -- [laughter] mrs. clinton: tim also has a backbone of steel. just ask the nra. [cheers and applause] mrs. clinton: over and over again, he has had the courage to stand up to the gun lobby in their own backyard. [cheers and applause] mrs. clinton: after the horrible virginia tech shooting, he signed an executive order to keep guns out of the hands of those who were deemed severely mentally ill.

[cheers and applause] mrs. clinton: and he has fought for commonsense gun reform across the country, as we saw just a few weeks ago when he joined the 15-hour senate filibuster, asking that we get those reforms done. [cheers and applause] mrs. clinton: so when i say he's a progressive who likes to get things done, i mean it. he's not afraid to take on special interests, whether he's calling for tough regulations on payday lending or fighting back against attacks on planned parenthood and defending women's rights to make our own health decisions. [cheers and applause] mrs. clinton: tim has led on some of the most important issues facing our country, from voting rights to lgbt equality --

[cheers and applause] mrs. clinton: to criminal-justice reform to comprehensive immigration reform. [cheers and applause] mrs. clinton: now, i -- after last week, i probably don't need to say this, but i will. this is one of the most consequential elections in our lifetimes. when someone says, "i alone can fix it" -- [booing] mrs. clinton: that should set off alarm bells in not just democrats' minds but republicans, independents, and people of all ages and backgrounds. that is not a democracy.

[cheers and applause] mrs. clinton: i said -- i said yesterday in tampa, we fought a revolution because we didn't want one man making all of the decisions for us. [cheers and applause] mrs. clinton: and besides, it is just nonsense. no one does anything alone. we do not have a one-person military. we do not have a one-person teaching corps. we do not have one doctor and one nurse who fixes everything, do we? >> [crowd responds, "no"] mrs. clinton: we work together. that is what has traditionally set us apart from places that have turned to single leaders, despots, dictators,

authoritarians, who have promised people, "i can fix it alone." you know what that says about us? that somehow we're helpless, we can't do this work that needs to be done in america ourselves, that we can't reach out to one another, that we can't make the economy work for everyone, not just those at the top. [cheers and applause] mrs. clinton: i reject that. i reject that, and next week, starting on monday, in philadelphia, you're going to see a very different kind of vision. [cheers and applause] >> hillary! hillary! mrs. clinton: so -- >> usa! usa! usa! usa! usa! usa! usa! usa! usa! usa! mrs. clinton: so i wanted to

come here to miami. i wanted to come here to introduce you to the person that i just can't think of anybody better to have by my side, on the campaign trail, in the white house. together, we are going to take on the challenges that are hurting americans. we are going to give the middle class a raise. we are going to give tax relief to working families to help with the rising costs of raising kids. we are going to create more good jobs. we are going to make sure every child in america has the chance to live up to his or her god-given potential. [cheers and applause] mrs. clinton: so, please, join us. join us. take out your phone right now. text "join" to 4-7-2-4-6, or go to hillaryclinton.com, because we are hiring organizers right here in florida right now.

[cheers and applause] mrs. clinton: so be involved in every way that you can, because together, we are going to win this election and move our country forward. please join me in welcoming the next vice president, my friend, senator tim kaine! [cheers and applause] senator kaine: wow, whoo! all right. [indiscernible] mrs. clinton: [indiscernible] [cheers and applause] senator kaine: [indiscernible] all right! great! all right! [cheers and applause] senator kaine: hey, guys, thank you. hello, miami. [cheers and applause] senator kaine: hello, fiu. [cheers and applause] senator kaine: [speaking spanish] y bienvenidos a todos. [cheers and applause] senator kaine: [speaking spanish] bienvenidos a todos en nuestro pais, porque somos americanos todos! [cheers and applause]

senator: i'm -- i'm feeling a lot of things today. most of all, gratitude. i'm grateful to you, hillary, for the trust that you've placed in me, and we are going to be companeros de alma in this great lucha ahead. [cheers and applause] senator kaine: i'm -- i'm grateful to the country which has given me so much. i'm grateful to all of you floridians, my virginians, all americans who poured their hearts into this wonderful, wonderful campaign. and -- [cheers and applause] senator kaine: and today like every day, i'm especially grateful to my wife, anne. [cheers and applause] senator kaine: i love you, honey. i love you, honey.

and to my three beautiful kids, nat, woody, and annella. i am the luckiest dad and the luckiest husband in the world. [cheers and applause] senator kaine: this is -- this is quite a week for me, and believe it or not, for as powerful as it is to become hillary clinton's running mate, that's not the only thing on my mind this week. anne and i have three kids. our oldest son, nat, is here today with his fiancee. [cheers] senator kaine: he is a -- he's a proud marine. [cheers and applause] senator kaine: and in just -- in just a few days, he is deploying to europe to uphold america's commitment to our nato allies. [cheers and applause] senator kaine: for me -- for me, this drives home the stakes in

the election. nearly 2 million men and women put their lives on the line for this country as active duty, as reservists, as guard members. they deserve a commander in chief with the experience and the temperament to lead. [cheers and applause] senator kaine: what -- what does donald trump say about these great americans, these 2 millions? he repeatedly calls the american military "a disaster." [booing] senator kaine: and just this week, donald trump said that as president, he would consider turning america's back on our decades-old commitments to our allies. [booing] senator kaine: and all of you remember a few months ago when he said about a senate colleague of then-senator clinton's and mine, john mccain, that he

wasn't a hero because he had been captured and served as a prisoner of war -- [booing] senator kaine: in vietnam. [booing] senator kaine: and he wants to be commander in chief? >> [crowd yells, "no!"] senator kaine: while our service members are out there on the frontlines, trump's saying he would leave our allies at the mercy of an increasingly aggressive russia, and, folks, that's an open invitation to vladimir putin to just roll on in. even a lot of republicans say that that's terribly dangerous. >> donald trump is crazy! senator kaine: when you -- all right. i am hiring for the speech writing team. [laughter] sentaor kaine: that -- that -- [laughter] senator kaine: we've seen again and again that when donald trump says he has your back, you had better watch out. >> [crowd replies, "yes"] senator kaine: from atlantic city to his so-called "university," he leaves a trail of broken promises and wrecked lives wherever he goes. [applause]

senator kaine: we cannot afford to let him do the same thing to our country, and, folks, we don't have to because hillary clinton is the direct opposite of donald trump. [cheers and applause] >> hillary! hillary! hillary! hillary! senator kaine: hillary! hillary! hillary! hillary! hillary clinton -- >> hillary! hillary! hillary! hillary! senator kaine: hillary clinton -- she doesn't insult people. she listens to them. what a novel concept, right? [cheers and applause] senator kaine: she doesn't trash our allies, she respects them, and she will always have our backs. that is something i am rock solid sure of. [cheers and applause] senator kaine: and i know that because hillary knows that we are stronger together, we are stronger when we work together,

when we grow together, when we pull together, when we live in the same neighborhood and worship together and go to school together, and when we're together, we're stronger. [cheers and applause] senator kaine: so i could not be any more honored to stand by hillary's side in this very important campaign. >> we love you both! [cheers and applause] senator kaine: [chuckles] i have -- i have spent most of my life in public service because i believe in doing everything i can to make a positive difference in people's lives, and i can see a lot of you out there who feel exactly the same way, exactly the same way. [cheers and applause] senator kaine: i am one of -- i am one of only 20 people in american history to serve as a mayor, a governor, and a united states senator, so --

[cheers and applause] senator kaine: i have -- i have been able to see how government works and how sometimes it doesn't from just about every perspective, and i have always believed that however you serve, what matters is whether you actually deliver results for people, and that has been my goal. that has been my goal in every position i have ever held. now, i know for a lot of you, this might be the first time you are hearing me speak, and, hey, let me be honest. for many of you, this is the first time you had even heard my name. [laughter] senator kaine: but that is ok, because i am excited for us to get to know one another, so today -- today, i thought i might tell you a little bit about me and where i come from. [cheers and applause] senator kaine: vice president was never a job i thought about

growing up in kansas. [laughter] senator kaine: like a lot of people in kansas city, my parents weren't that into politics. church, the kansas city royals, you know, that's the kind of thing that we spend time talking about. they had too much else going on. my dad ran a union-organized ironworking shop in the stockyards of kansas city. [cheers and applause] senator kaine: and my mom, in addition to all the challenges with my two brothers and me, she was my dad's best saleswoman. that ironworking business was tough. it's the kind of job where you can't cut corners. if you're not careful, you could make one mistake and ruin an awful lot of work in an instant. i learned that working in my dad's shop. my two brothers and i, we all pitched in. sometimes, we were scheduled to pitch in, and sometimes dad would just shake us in the morning and say, "i got an order to get out, and i really need you guys today." i remember once, the last day of summer vacation, i was so looking forward to sleeping in, and then i felt that hand on my shoulder at

about 6:00 a.m., "i really got to have your help to get an order out today." but that's what families do. we would go there early, especially in the summer to try to get the work done before the day got hot. [applause] senator kaine: that's what families do. [cheers and applause] senator kaine: that's what families do. [cheers and applause] senator kaine: my parents, al and kathy, and they are alive and healthy, and they are happy today, 81 years old, alive, healthy and happy. [cheers and applause] senator kaine: they taught me early lessons that have guided my life, the importance of hard work, of faith and kindness, of following your dreams. my mom once told me, and i will say this. she wasn't much of a lecturer. she just kind of liked to live, and then we were supposed to follow the example, but she once told me this. "tim, you have to decide whether you want to be right or you want to do right. if you want to be right, go ahead and be a pessimist, but if you want to do right, be an optimist."

and, folks, i've been an optimist ever since. [cheers and applause] senator kaine: i went to a -- i went to a jesuit boys' school, rockhurst high school in kansas city. >> whoo! senator kaine: and -- all right, some jesuits in the house. i like that. i like that. [laughter] senator kaine: the motto of my school, this boys' school, was "men for others," and that was the -- that was what we were taught. and that is where my faith, which had important to me because of my parents' example, really grew into something more viable. it became like my north star, the organizing principle for what i wanted to do. even as a young man, because of these great teachers i had and because of my parents' example, i knew that i wanted to do something to devote myself to social justice. and that is why after racing through the university of missouri in three years and starting at harvard law school, i decided to take a year off from school to volunteer with jesuit missionaries in honduras. [speaking spanish] hay

hondurenos aqui? hay hondurenos aqui? ok, un poquito, si. [applause] senator kaine: well, when i got to honduras, it turned out that my recently acquired knowledge of constitutional law was pretty useless. [laughter] senator kaine: but the experience of working in my dad's ironworking shop was actually kind of helpful, so i taught teenagers the basics of carpentry and welding, and they helped me learn spanish, and i tell you -- [applause] senator kaine: my -- my time in honduras changed my life in so many ways. [speaking spanish] aprendi -- aprendi los valores de mi pueblo. fe, familia, y trabajo. [cheers and applause] senator kaine: [speaking spanish] fe, familia, y trabajo. los mismos valores de la comunidad latina aqui en nuestro pais, verdad? [cheers and applause]

senator kaine: and here's -- here's something that really stuck with me. i got a firsthand look at a system. this was 1980 and 1981. a dictatorship, where few folks at the top had all of the power, and everybody else got left behind, and it convinced me that we've got to advance opportunity and equality for everybody, no matter where they come from, how much money they have, what they look like, what accent they have, or who they love. [cheers and applause] senator kaine: in -- in 1970, a republican governor of virginia, linwood holton, believed exactly the same thing. he integrated virginia's public schools after the state had fought for 16 years after brown v. board to keep them segregated. [applause] senator kaine: now in 1970 in virginia, that took political

courage, and then he and his wife went even further. they enrolled their own kids, including their daughter, anne, in integrated schools, and it sent a strong signal to the people of virginia that their governor wasn't going to back down, wasn't going to take half steps, or wasn't going to make rules for others that he would not follow for himself. [cheers and applause] senator kaine: so many years later, that young girl, anne, went to princeton, went to harvard law school, guided by her experience since a youngster in the first generation of integrated virginia schools, and one day in a study group, she met this kind of nerdy guy who had been off teaching kids in honduras. anne and i got married 32 years ago at st. elizabeth's catholic church in the highland park neighborhood of richmond, virginia. [cheers and applause]

senator kaine: that is -- that's the parish that we still belong to today. hey, st. e.'s folks. i hope you're watching. we will be there at 9:00 a.m. tomorrow. [laughter] senator kaine: marrying anne was and remains the best decision of my life. [cheers and applause] senator kaine: and -- am i right? am i right? [laughter] senator kaine: and it turns out, she actually learned negotiation a lot better than i did in law school, which is how a kansas city kid ended up in virginia, so -- [laughter] senator kaine: anne and i settled down. we started a family, and we sent our kids -- we sent our kids to those same public schools that her father had opened up to everybody. [cheers and applause] senator kaine: including -- including one school that i helped get built when i was mayor that our school board

named the linwood holton elementary school. [cheers and applause] senator kaine: how cool -- how cool was it to see our three kids head out the door with their backpacks on and to walk to a neighborhood school named after their civil-rights hero grandfather? >> whoo! senator kaine: now -- [cheers and applause] senator kaine: lin's example helped inspire me to work as a civil-rights lawyer, representing people who had been turned away from housing either because of the color of their skin or because they were an american with a disability, and this was my civil-rights work for 17 years. i brought dozens of lawsuits when i was in private practice, battling banks, landlords, real-estate firms, insurance companies, and even local governments that had treated people unfairly. [cheers and applause] senator kaine: in 1998, i won an historic verdict against a national insurance company because they had been redlining

minority neighborhoods, treating them unfairly in the issuance of homeowners insurance. at the time i won that case, it was the biggest jury verdict ever in a civil-rights case in american history. [cheers and applause] senator kaine: i like to fight for right! i like to fight for right! [cheers and applause] senator kaine: and i found myself going to city council meetings in richmond to raise the issues that i was dealing with everyday on behalf of my clients, but i was frustrated at the division and infighting, and so, in 1994, i did something that seemed even crazier than what i am doing now. [laughter] senator kaine: i decided to run for local office. man, i was so scared the day i announced, but i wanted to help my city and my community. i knocked on every door in my district. i won my first race beating an incumbent by 94 votes, the first

of many nailbiters and squeakers i've had since then. [laughter] senator kaine: and as i've often said, if i'm good at anything in public life, it's good because i started at the local level, listening to people, learning about their lives, and trying to find consensus to solve problems. [cheers and applause] senator kaine: in the -- in the years that followed, i became mayor of richmond. i was elected lieutenant governor of virginia, and in 2006, i became the 70th governor of the commonwealth of virginia, when -- when we moved into the governor's mansion after the inauguration, my wife became the only person who had ever lived there first as a child and then as an adult. [cheers and applause] senator kaine: we had to make -- we had to make tough decisions when i was in office, because it was the deepest recession since the 1930's, but that didn't stop

us from expanding early-childhood education, from building more classrooms and facilities on our college campuses so more could go to school, because we knew that education was a key to everything we wanted to achieve as a state, and it's the key to everything we want to achieve as a nation. [cheers and applause] senator kaine: we -- we invested in open-space preservation and cleaning up the chesapeake bay because our kids and grandkids deserve to enjoy the beautiful commonwealth that we love, just like you love the beauty of your sunshine state. [cheers and applause] senator kaine: and we achieved national recognition for our work in tough times. when i was governor of virginia, best managed state in america, best state for a child to have a successful life, best state for business, one of the lowest unemployment rates, one of the highest bond ratings, one of the highest family incomes. we did that during tough times,

and so -- [cheers and applause] senator kaine: so, today, i am proud to carry that work forward as a virginia senator, serving on the armed services, foreign relations, and budget committees. they actually just added me to the aging committee, too. i don't know why they would have done that. [laughter] senator kaine: i'm proud to support my wife's public service. she has been a legal-aid lawyer, juvenile court judge, foster-care reformer, and now she's secretary of education for the commonwealth of virginia. [cheers and applause] senator kaine: and -- and anne and i are both so proud of our great commonwealth and of our great nation, and isn't it great already? >> [crowd replies, "yes!"] senator kaine: i mean, isn't it great already? [cheers and applause] senator kaine: what a great country. you know, i -- as i look back over these experiences, what i

have learned is that god has created a rich and beautiful tapestry in this country. it is a -- it is a rainbow of cultural diversity that embraces all people -- [cheers and applause] senator kaine: regardless of their race or economic status, regardless of their religion or their gender, regardless of their sexual orientation or where they're from. we've got this beautiful country that should be a country of welcome, that should be a country of inclusion, and i know that that is a fundamental value that hillary clinton shares. you know -- [cheers and applause] senator kaine: [speaking spanish] soy catolico, soy catolico. i am a catholic, and hillary is a methodist, but, i tell you, her creed is the same as mine, "do all the good that you can." pretty simple. do all the good that you can. [cheers and applause] senator kaine: measure your life by the positive effect you can

have on other people's lives. be of service to one another. now, that's a notion that americans of every faith tradition and every moral tradition believe in, and it's a message that hillary clinton has taken to heart for her entire life, for her entire life. [cheers and applause] senator kaine: fighting for -- fighting for children and families, like when she was first lady. after she tried, and a recalcitrant congress blocked her in the big advance that we needed on health-care reform, she said, "you know what? i am not stopping. if we can't get it all, can we pass a program to provide health insurance to 8 million more american children?" and that's what she did. [cheers and applause] senator kaine: and that's what she did. that's who she fought for. [cheers and applause] senator kaine: fighting for -- fighting for equal rights for african-americans, for latinos, for people with disabilities,

for lgbt americans. [cheers and applause] senator kaine: in the aftermath of the 9/11 attack, fighting tenaciously to make sure the 9/11 first responders in new york and other localities would get health benefits. [cheers and applause] senator kaine: now, there are an awful lot of people, an awful lot of people, who have put their trust and their faith in hillary, and she's always, she's always, delivered for them, from working with the children's defense fund to first lady of arkansas to first lady of the united states, to senator, to secretary of state. she has always delivered. [cheers and applause] senator kaine: and -- >> hillary! hillary! hillary! hillary! hillary! hillary!

senator kaine: and you know what? here's something you can tell about a great leader. she not only delivers in the easy times or the simple times. she delivers in the tough times, and she even delivers when she is on the receiving and of one attack after another. she never backs down. [cheers and applause] senator kaine: she never backs down. [cheers and applause] senator kaine: hillary -- hillary, whatever the -- whatever the drama, whatever the attack, whatever the situation, stays focused on what matters, helping people. that's -- that's what keeps her going. so here's how hillary and i are going to continue that work with a strong, progressive agenda. [cheers and applause] senator kaine: we're -- we're

going to make the american economy work for everybody, not just those at the top, not just those at the top, and we'll do that -- we'll do that by making the largest investment in good-paying jobs since world war ii. [cheers and applause] senator kaine: we will make college debt-free for everybody. [cheers and applause] senator kaine: we will rewrite the rules so that companies share their profits with workers rather than shift jobs overseas. [cheers and applause] senator kaine: and we'll make sure that wall street, corporations, and the wealthy pay their fair share of taxes. [cheers and applause] senator kaine: and while we're on the subject of taxes, where are donald trump's tax returns?

[booing] senator kaine: raise your hand if you think those returns would show that he has paid his fair share of taxes. i do not see a lot of hands. we're going to fight for paid family leave, equal pay for women, and raising the minimum wage to a living wage. [cheers and applause] senator kaine: to keep families together, to keep families together, and to bring them out of the shadows in our administration, in our first 100 days, we'll put forward a comprehensive immigration-reform package that includes a path to citizenship. [cheers and applause] senator kaine: [speaking spanish]

i will encourage you -- if you haven't done this, go to a naturalization service, where people are becoming u.s. citizens. it is -- how many of you -- raise your hand if you have been a naturalized citizen. if you -- [cheers and applause] senator kaine: yeah. wow. thanks for choosing us. thanks for choosing us. if you haven't -- if you haven't been to one of those services, it's going to be one of the most powerful things you'll ever see. often, after the oath is taken, there's an open mic, and people get to just walk up and say, "here is why i decided that i wanted to become a citizen of the united states," and it will just bring tears to your eyes and a smile to your face when you hear what these people think about the greatness of the united states of america. [cheers and applause] >> usa! usa! usa! usa! usa! usa! usa!

senator kaine: and -- and when you -- and when you go to one of these naturalization services, and you see the people's desire to join this great country, you will -- you'll basically have this pretty amazing thought. [speaking spanish] cualquier persona que ame tanto a los estados unidos, merece estar aqui. senator kaine: anybody who loves america this much deserves to be here, deserves to be here. [cheers and applause] senator kaine: now, there is one last part of hillary's plan that means a lot to me personally, that -- that kind of -- kind of emotional for me, and i bet is emotional for you, how to stem the epidemic of gun violence that kills 33,000 americans every year. [cheers and applause] senator kaine: as governor

during one of the most horrible shootings in america's history, this issue is very close to my heart, very close to my heart, and i know that many of you here feel exactly the same way after that tragic shooting in orlando in june. [cheers and applause] senator kaine: we can do better, folks. we can do better. it was in -- it was in april of 2007, about halfway through my time as governor. i had just arrived in japan on a trade mission to bring jobs back to virginia, had checked into the hotel room, had fallen asleep, when the knock came at my door, and the head of my security detail said, "governor, you've got to turn on the tv. we're going to get on the phone. there's a horrible shooting underway at virginia tech, this wonderful college in blacksburg, virginia, and as jetlagged as i was and just arrived, i said, "take me back to the airport. i'm getting the first plane home." it was 14 hours over. it was 14 hours back. and i walked onto that campus --

[applause] senator kaine: jetlagged and in the wrong time zone, but i knew that, you know, as a leader, even though i didn't have any magic words to say that would take away the horror of the tragedy, i had to bring comfort in some way to the families of those who had been killed, to the students and professors who had been injured, and also to the first responders who had been there to help them. this -- this -- [cheers and applause] senator kaine: april 16, 2007, that was the worst day of my life. it was the worst day of so many people's lives, and for the parents and the loved ones of those kids and professors, that pain never goes away. precious 17-year-olds, a 70-plus-year-old, lithuanian-born holocaust

survivor, who was a teacher, who could survive the holocaust, who could survive the soviet takeover of his country, but who fell victim to gun violence because he blocked the door and told his students to climb out the window as his body was being riddled with bullets, survived the holocaust, survived the soviet takeover of your country, and fall victim in blacksburg, virginia, to the horror of american gun violence? so when the vast majority of americans and even a majority of nra members agree that we have to adopt commonsense gun safety measures, hillary and i will not rest. [cheers and applause] senator kaine: we'll not rest! [cheers and applause] senator kaine: we will not rest. [cheers and applause] senator kaine: until -- [cheers and applause] >> usa!

senator kaine: we will not rest. >> hillary! hillary! hillary! senator kaine: we won't rest -- we won't rest until we get universal background checks and close loopholes that put guns in the hands of criminals, terrorists, and dangerous people who should not have them. it's so easy. the american public wants it. gun owners want it. the nra members want it. we will not rest. now, folks, i know the nra. they are headquartered in my state, in virginia. they campaigned against me in every statewide race that i've ever run, but i have never lost an election. [cheers and applause] senator kaine: i've never lost an election. [cheers and applause] senator kaine: i don't mind. i don't mind powerful groups campaigning against me. that just is like an extra cup of coffee to me, folks. it just gets me more excited. i am 8-0, and i promise you. i'm not about to let that change. especially --

[cheers and applause] senator kaine: especially when donald trump stands in the way of progress on every single one of these issues -- [booing] senator kaine: that hillary has laid out as core to her campaign. so now i'm going to wrap this up with three easy questions. we're at a university. i can give you a test, right? >> [crowd responds, "yes"] senator kaine: i can give a test. these are three questions to ask yourselves. one, do you want a "you're fired" president, or a "you're hired" president? [cheers and applause] senator kaine: of course, you want a "you're hired" president. donald trump is the "you're fired" guy. that's what he's known for, and when this whole campaign is done, and everybody's forgotten it, the one thing they will remember about donald trump is "you're fired." [cheers and applause] senator kaine: bankrupting companies, shifting jobs overseas, stiffing contractors, being against federal minimum wage, being against equal pay for equal work.

he is the "you're fired" guy. hey, we've got a "you're hired" president. [cheers and applause] senator kaine: a "you're hired" president. [cheers and applause] senator kaine: let's do -- let's do debt-free college so people can have skills. let's build bridges and roads and airports and ports so people can have jobs. let's go for equal pay. let's raise the minimum wage. let's bring back the dignity and respect to work. [cheers and applause] senator kaine: a "you're hired" president. all right, you are 1-1. mrs. clinton: [laughs] senator kaine: question number two. do you want a trash-talking president or a bridge-building president? >> [crowd responds, "bridge building!"] senator kaine: of course, you do. donald trump trash talks folks with disabilities, trash talks -- [booing] senator kaine: trash talks -- trash talks mexican americans and latinos, whether they're new immigrants -- [booing] senator kaine: or governors or federal judges. trash talks women, trash talks our allies, calls the military "a disaster." [booing]

senator kaine: oh, you're right. he doesn't trash talk everybody. he likes vladimir putin. you're right. [laughter] senator kaine: let's get that straight. but this is a bridge-builder president. as -- [cheers and applause] senator kaine: as a -- as a member of the armed services committee, built great ties with our military and military families, as a secretary of state made history, building our relationships around the world and putting central to u.s. foreign policy the treatment of children around the world. she's a bridge builder, and that's what we need. [cheers and applause] senator kaine: and last -- all right. all right, florida international, you are 2-2. do you want a me-first president or a kids-and-families-first president? >> [crowd responds, "kids and families!"] senator kaine: of course. [applause] senator kaine: with donald trump, it's "me first." "i'm not showing you my tax returns." "i'm going to run a university that will take people's money and rip them off."

[booing] senator kaine: when -- donald trump was in britain when they cast the brexit vote to leave the eu, and as the british pound, their unit of currency, was getting pummeled, he said, "hey, this could be good news for my golf course." "me first." [booing] senator kaine: but we've got a -- but we've got a kids-and-families-first president. [cheers and applause] senator kaine: who from -- who from her earliest days has been -- i will tell you something. i will give you a secret about those of us in politics. if you want to try to judge the character of somebody in politics, i'll tell you how to do it, and it's really simple. look at their life and see if they have a passion in their life that they had long before they got into politics, a passion that's not about themselves, a passion that's about somebody else, and then see if they have held onto that

passion through thick or thin, in good times or bad, whether winning elections or losing elections, come hell or high water, look to see if they have a passion that's about somebody else, and look to see whether they've held onto it all the time, and that is character, and that is our "kids and families first" hillary clinton! [cheers and applause] >> hillary! hillary! hillary! hillary! hillary! hillary! hillary! hillary! hillary! hillary! senator kaine: all right. when i -- when i was a kid growing up, my favorite president was another kansas city guy, harry truman. great democratic president, great democratic president. and let me tell you something that harry truman said that could've been written five minutes ago. he said it in the late 1940's, and it is so well put.

america was not built on fear. america was built on courage, on imagination, and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. let me tell you that one again. america was not built on fear! [cheers and applause] senator kaine: america was not built on fear. it was built on courage, on imagination, and on an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. friends, hillary clinton -- [cheers and applause] senator kaine: hillary clinton is filled with that courage. that imagination. and that unbeatable determination. and that's why we trust her to fight for all americans. that's why i am with her. that's why i am with her. are you with her? >> [crowd shouts, "yes!"] senator kaine: that's why we're with her. that's why we're with her. these are tough times for many in our country, but we're tough

people. and that's something else i learned from my folks. tough times don't last, but tough people do. mrs. clinton: that's right. senator kaine: and they don't come any tougher or any more compassionate than hillary clinton, so let's go make history, and elect hillary clinton the 45th president of the united states! ♪ ♪ >> ♪ listen, baby ain't no mountain high ain't no valley low ain't no river wide enough, baby ♪ >> ♪ if you need me, call me no matter where you are no matter how far just call out my name i'll be there in a hurry you don't have to worry ♪ >> ♪ 'cause, baby ain't no mountain high enough

ain't no valley low enough ain't no river wide enough to keep me away from you ♪

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