“The Republican convention was like a twisted and negative tour,” Kaine said. | AP Photo Kaine: Trump's mind is a 'frightening place'

Less than 24 hours after the end of the Democratic National Convention, Tim Kaine couldn’t get his mind off of the “twisted and negative” tour Donald Trump took Americans on at his own convention the week before.

At their first post-convention rally, both Kaine and Hillary Clinton were eager to once again highlight the vastly different portraits of the country the two parties drew at their nominating conventions. The Virginia senator asked the raucous Philadelphia crowd if they were proud “of how optimistic, upbeat, positive, pro-America the convention was here?” before taking a shot at the Manhattan billionaire’s convention speech.


“The Republican convention was like a twisted and negative tour,” Kaine said in his introduction of Clinton. “It wasn't a tour of this country, it was a journey through Donald Trump's mind. And that is a very frightening place. That is a very frightening place.”

Clinton took her own turn throwing rhetorical punches at her GOP opponent, taking advantage of the Philadelphia setting to suggest that a Trump presidency would go against what the framers of the Constitution would have wanted. She juxtaposed the Founding Fathers' desire to keep one man from consolidating power “like a king,” with Trump’s promise in his convention speech that “I alone can fix” America’s problems.

“As we pointed out during our four great days of our convention, you heard something very different from the Republicans, didn't you?” Clinton said. “We might as well have been talking about two different countries or, as someone said to me, two different planets."

Both Kaine and Clinton spent time in their remarks previewing their three-day bus tour, which kicked off Friday afternoon with the Philadelphia rally. The Democratic ticket, accompanied by their spouses, will travel through Pennsylvania to Pittsburgh and then into Ohio over the weekend, wrapping up with events in Cleveland and Columbus.