{"id":20107,"date":"2016-07-23T10:06:19","date_gmt":"2016-07-23T09:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=20107"},"modified":"2016-07-23T15:16:51","modified_gmt":"2016-07-23T14:16:51","slug":"u-s-presidential-election-29-the-vice-presidential-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=20107","title":{"rendered":"U.S. presidential election (29): the vice-presidential candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have now chosen their Vice-Presidential running mates but, outside the United States, nobody has heard of them. So, who are they and why were they chosen?<\/p>\n<p>The Republican candidate Donald Trump has selected Mike Pence who is the governor of Indiana. He is socially conservative and has 12 years experience as a member of the House of Representatives. \u00a0But he is not a good speaker and has wobbled on some issues.<\/p>\n<p>More information <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/election-us-2016-36817465\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton has selected Tim Kaine who is a senator from Virginia. His home state will be a key contest in the upcomg election and he speaks fluent Spanish, both of which are seen as electoral assets. But the appointment of such a centrist figure will be seen as disappointing by those Democrats who backed Bernie Sanders.<\/p>\n<p>More information <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/election-us-2016-36870441\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The choices of Pence and Kaine are both seen as safe, even boring. The main conflict though &#8211; between Trump and Clinton &#8211; is never going to be dull. And we all have a stake in the result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have now chosen their Vice-Presidential running mates but, outside the United States, nobody has heard of them. So, who are they and why were they chosen? The Republican candidate Donald Trump has selected Mike Pence who is the governor of Indiana. He is socially conservative and has 12 years experience [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20107"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20118,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20107\/revisions\/20118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}