Tim Kaine actually said...

"we, as a country, need to raise above the political fear about it and do something about cyber and information attacks against the democracy."

"an attack is an attack, and the integrity of the system is something we should protect one way or other."

"we still have not responded to the Russians in a way that the rest of the world sees that you cannot get away with doing this to the United States."

"It works by convincing a potential adversary that it will suffer unacceptable costs if it conducts an attack on the United States."