Hours before Clinton announced Kaine as her running mate, Kaine gave an interview to The Intercept, and praised TPP as “an improvement of the status quo” but “maintained that he had not yet decided how to vote on final approval of the agreement,” according to reports.
This is a break with Clinton, who supported the trade agreement until the bruising primary battle with Sanders, when she changed her opinion and opposed the agreement.
Only a couple days before the Clinton campaign rolled out their nominee, a Politico article reported that he and other Democratic Senators signed a letter urging regulators to rethink and loosen bank regulation.
Liberals were not happy, and called it “disqualifying.”
“It should be disqualifying for any potential Democratic vice presidential candidate to be part of a lobbyist-driven effort to help banks dodge consumer protection standards and regulations designed to prevent banks from destroying our economy,” Democracy for America executive director Charles Chamberlain said in a statement on Thursday.
