The next Republican battle for the presidency is already…

The jockeying for positioning in the next Republican presidential contest has already begun - and at this week's convention, a couple of people were able to separate themselves from what is certain to be as large of a glut of contenders as there were in the 2016 cycle. Sens. Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Joni Ernst of Iowa, and Ted Cruz of Texas were all on hand.

Furious Sanders backers weighing challenge to Kaine nomination

Bernie Sanders delegates, furious over Hillary Clinton's vice presidential pick and leaked emails showing the Democratic Party was helping Hillary Clinton, said Sunday they're seeking their own vice presidential candidate and weighing protests on the floor. They have no alternative to Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., Clinton's running mate in mind yet.

Kendall Jenner Shares Her Surprising New Hair Color On Snapchat

Kendall Jenner officially has purple hair! The 20-year-old model unveiled her dramatic new tresses on Snapchat, a move that her younger sister, Kylie, is notorious for. Photographer Patrick Demarchelier of The Devil Wears Prada gets into the action, trying out his hand as a stylist of her new look.

After convention, Clinton and Kaine to visit Ohio

After convention, Clinton and Kaine to visit Ohio One of Hillary Clinton's first stops after the Democratic National Convention this week will be - where else - Ohio. Check out this story on cincinnati.com: http://cin.ci/2aaQ1pa Hillary Clinton arrives with Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., at a rally at Florida International University Panther Arena in Miami on July 23, 2016.

Bernie Sanders Gives A Nod Of Support For Tim Kaine VP Pick

Sen. Bernie Sanders offered his support for the choice of Sen. Tim Kaine as the Democratic vice presidential nominee, though he did so by calling it a vast improvement over the Republican alternative more than offering a testament to Kaine's liberal bona fides. Speaking to CNN's "State of the Union," Sanders acknowledged that he and Kaine were not always ideologically in symmetry.

What’s next with Democrats’ gas tax plan to end N.J. road construction shutdown?

TRENTON - The state Senate could vote as early as Aug. 1 on a plan to raise the gas tax and restart more than 1,000 idling road, bridge and rail construction projects across the state. Senate President Stephen Sweeney and Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto announced Friday they were joining together on a slightly revised proposal to raise the tax on gasoline sold in New Jersey by 23 cents a gallon and offer several tax breaks, big and small.

[Newsmaker] Kaine wows as Clinton running mate

Tim Kaine made a big splash Saturday in his first appearance as Hillary Clinton's running mate for the White House, savaging Donald Trump's foreign policy ideas as dangerous and wowing a Miami crowd with fluent Spanish. Kaine, a 58-year-old senator from the battleground state of Virginia, won many a cheer and laugh and frequent applause as he addressed a campaign rally one day after being tapped for the Democratic ticket.

Could Clinton’s VP pick hurt her chances with Israel supporters?

Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's recent Vice Presidential pick of Tim Kaine has in many ways been regarded as a "safe choice", nominally aiding her White House bid without the risk some more outspoken running-mates, like Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, could potentially have posed. A former governor and current senator for the swing-state of Virginia, Tim Kaine worked as a missionary in Honduras and speaks fluent Spanish, an asset in an election where Hispanic voters could tip the scales in critical battleground states like Florida, Nevada, Colorado, and Arizona.

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CNN political commentator Scottie Nell Hughes on Saturday criticized Tim Kaine for speaking in Spanish, saying it contrasted with this week's Republican convention in which "I didn't have to get a translator." Hughes, who supports Donald Trump, told CNN's Wolf Blitzer on "CNN Newsroom" that Kaine's appearance with Hillary Clinton in Miami - in which Kaine frequently spoke in Spanish - highlighted the differences between the Republican and Democratic parties.

Catholic Tim Kaine insane on abortion

Hillary Clinton has picked Virginia senator Tim Kaine as her V.P. Much is being made of the fact that he speaks Spanish and is Catholic and used his Spanish while a Catholic missionary. Kaine is the latest Catholic politician to follow the tortured logic of Mario Cuomo to justify abortion when you know it is wrong, according both to your faith and to logic.

Clinton chooses Irish-American with Longford links as her vice-president

Presumptive Democratic US Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has picked an Irish-American senator as her running mate ahead of November's election. Running mate: Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her newly appointed vice president, Senator Tim Kaine.

In Kaine Pick, Clinton Shuns Glitz for Competence — and Strategy

Tim Kaine has been city councilor, mayor, senator, lieutenant governor, governor, and a former national party chair -- a life in politics that has never included a lost election. He's also a Harvard-educated civil-rights lawyer who did missionary work in Honduras, speaks fluent Spanish, was raised in two Midwestern states, and has attended a predominantly black Catholic church in Virginia for 30 years.

Clinton, Kaine make debut as running mates in Miami

Presumptive U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and Virginia Senator Tim Kaine spoke for the first time as running mates at a rally in Miami, Florida on Saturday, two days before the party's convention kicks off in Philadelphia. Kaine is "everything Donald Trump and Mike Pence are not," said Clinton, formally introducing her low-key Spanish-fluent ally to the crowd at Florida International University, where the student body is more than half Hispanic.