Clinton and Kaine debut in battleground of Florida

MIAMI — Hillary Clinton introduced running mate Tim Kaine as “a progressive who likes to get things done,” joining the senator from Virginia in the crucial battleground state of Florida to help kick off this week’s Democratic National Convention.

Clinton offered Kaine the vice presidential spot on the Democratic ticket in a phone call Friday night.

Clinton and Kaine will face Republican Trump and his running mate, Pence, the Indiana governor.

Florida is the nation’s premier battleground state, and the bilingual Kaine is likely to be a valuable asset in Spanish-language media as the campaign appeals to Latino Americans turned off by Trump’s harsh rhetoric about immigrants.

On its web page, WikiLeaks said the new cache of emails came from the accounts of “seven key figures in the DNC” and warned that the release was “part one of our new Hillary Leaks series” — an indication that more material might be published soon.

The emails include several stinging denunciations of Sanders and his organization before and after the DNC briefly shut off his campaign’s access to the party’s key list of likely Democratic voters.