Hillary Clinton is spending two days at home in New York, finalizing her decision for a running mate, before formally introducing her Democratic ticket during a weekend campaign swing in Florida, according to several Democrats familiar with the search.
From the beginning, Tim Kaine made his position clear in public and private to the president and his aides: He supported a punitive strike against Syria, but he wanted his good friend Barack Obama to come to Congress for permission to launch it. “When they would do briefing calls to senators in the week before the president made his decision, I was very much encouraging him [to go to Congress].