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Kaine: World leaders say they prefer Clinton

Concerned world leaders are counting on the American people to elect Hillary Clinton as president in the fall, vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine said on Monday.
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August 2, 2016

Concerned world leaders are counting on the American people to elect Hillary Clinton as president in the fall, vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine said on Monday.

Speaking in front of a packed gymnasium in Richmond, Virginia – his first solo campaign rally since receiving the Democratic nomination, Kaine claimed that leaders of foreign countries have expressed their support for the Democratic ticket.

“I talk to people all around the world,” he said. “I’m on the Foreign Relations Committee. The leaders of other nations tell me, ‘We are counting on you.’ We’ve got to have the right leadership in this country. We’ve got to have it.”

According to Kaine, Hillary Clinton “is a bridge builder with alliances and strength, and she knows the value of alliances.”

Donald Trump, on the other hand, “is a trash talker. He trash talks allies, he trash talks foreign leaders…”

In May, President Obama said during the G-7 summit in Japan that Trump’s campaign statements had his fellow world leaders concerned. “They’re rattled by him and for good reason,” Obama said. “Because a lot of the proposals that he’s made display either ignorance of world affairs or a cavalier attitude or an interest in getting tweets and headlines instead of actually thinking through what is required to keep America safe.”

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