How dare the Munich shooter steal Hillary’s thunder.
Via The Daily Mail:
Hillary Clinton held off this afternoon on announcing who she'd tapped to be her vice president after shots rang out at a Munich mall.
Clinton had teased the pick on Friday morning in a donation email that told supporters, 'You’re going to be one of the first to know when Hillary announces her choice for VP!
She was expected to put sunshine on her running mate today as she campaigned in Florida and make her first joint appearance with the lucky winner of the Democratic veepstakes tomorrow in Miami.
The news is now likely to come Saturday morning ahead the noon event at Florida International University.
The much-anticipated moment was to come this afternoon via text message this afternoon to those that signed up for news related to the big reveal, NBC News, reports.
Staffers were instead told at an afternoon meeting at Clinton's Brooklyn headquarters that the announcement would come at 'an undisclosed time,' the news network said.
As news networks reported on the delay, claiming that staffers were originally to be given a name in the meeting, Clinton national press secretary Brian Fallon refuted the account on Twitter.
'Not true, he said. 'The meeting happened as scheduled. It was about staffing for the Convention. Was never about VP,' he said in a follow up.
A terrorist attack on a mall in Munich, Germany that left eight dead and began a massive manhunt for three gun-wielding terrorists changed the optics of the afternoon on a day when Clinton spent the morning at a listening session with community members affected by the Pulse night club shooting in Orlando.
The roundtable discussion went long and Clinton did not arrive at the Tampa event until more than an hour after it was supposed to start .
On the way to Tampa Clinton said in a tweet, 'Monitoring the horrific situation in Munich. We stand with our friends in Germany as they work to bring those responsible to justice.'
Elizabeth Warren said Thursday night in a sketch on Stephen Colbert's 'Late Show' show that it's not her.
'Stephen, I think if it were me, I would know it by now,' Warren tells him. 'So probably not.'
The long-shot VP pick said, 'But look, she’s got lots of good choices and I’m excited about seeing who she’s going to pick.'[…]
Bets are on Spanish-speaking Virginia Senator Tim Kaine, particularly because of the setting.