Tim Kaine: “on November 9, 2016, I had one of the most memorable experiences of my life. I stood on a hotel stage in New York City…”

“on November 9, 2016, I had one of the most memorable experiences of my life. I stood on a hotel stage in New York City and, as my party's nominee for Vice President, introduced Secretary Hillary Clinton to address her supporters and the Nation for a concession speech. The polls in the Western United States had just been closed for about 10 hours, and it was a mere 8 hours after news organizations had called the 2016 election for Donald Trump. Hillary Clinton had made history. She was the first woman nominee of a major party for President, and she had won the popular vote by millions of votes. She was also deeply concerned about the election itself. Candidate Donald Trump had openly solicited help from a foreign adversary to win the election. While the dimensions of the foreign misinformation campaign were not yet fully clear, the Nation's intelligence community had publicly warned that a foreign country was active in efforts to undermine Secretary Clinton's candidacy and create chaos and division in the American electorate. But Hillary Clinton was and is a patriotic American. She knew that she was behind by nearly 77,000 votes in the key States of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. She knew that it was highly unlikely that recounts would change any of those three deficits in any appreciable way.…”