U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine in his Washington, D.C. office in 2015.
Hillary Clinton announced Friday evening she has picked U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine to be her vice presidential running mate.
Kaine, who was elected to the Senate in 2012, is expected to benefit Clinton’s campaign with his low-key campaigning style, honest reputation and fluency in Spanish. When he was a student at Harvard Law School, he took a year off to attend a Catholic mission in the Honduras.
He also hails from Virginia, which has become a key battleground state in presidential contests.
Kaine started his political career as a Richmond City councilman. He later served as mayor of Richmond, lieutenant governor of Virginia and was governor of Virginia from 2006 until 2010.
