Kaine: Pick ‘you’re hired’ not ‘you’re fired’ president

GRAND RAPID, MI – Donald Trump would be a “trash-talking,” “me-first” president, Democratic vice presidential hopeful Tim Kaine said Friday in Grand Rapids, beating up on the Republican nominee in a speech that largely focused on the businessman’s differences with Hillary Clinton.

“Do you want a ‘you’re hired’ president or a ‘you’re fired’ president?” Kaine asked an enthusiastic crowd at the Wealthy Theatre, mimicking Trump’s signature line on his reality television show, “The Apprentice.”

Trump will be remembered for those two words after this election, when he has lost, Kaine said: “You’re fired.”

The visit came on the heels of a Detroit News-WDIV poll of Michigan voters showing Clinton has opened up a nine-point lead here and is outperforming Trump in most areas of the state, including the traditional Republican stronghold of west Michigan, where Grand Rapids is emerging as a liberal pocket.

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