At a Labor Day breakfast in Buena Vista, Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) recalled the late John McCain and honored McCain’s irascible determination to do what he valued as good and right for all Americans. Kaine contrasted him to the “me” generation of Republicans who have stolen a once patriotic party.





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