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Edwards joins Kerry's bid to unseat Bush
(Agencies)
Updated: 2004-07-07 07:37

U.S. Presidential candidate John Kerry on Tuesday chose former rival John Edwards as his running mate, selecting the smooth-talking Southern populist over more seasoned politicians in hopes of injecting vigor and small-town appeal into the Democratic ticket.


U.S. Democratic presumed presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry (L) and Senator John Edwards confer before the start of a debate at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles in this file image from February 26, 2004. Kerry picked Edwards July 6, 2004 as his vice-presidential running mate, calling Edwards 'a champion for middle class Americans.' [Reuters]
"I trust that met with your approval," Kerry told a boisterous crowd of supporters in Pittsburgh who shouted their consent while waving hot-off-the-presses "Kerry-Edwards" placards.

The two senators - Kerry of Massachusetts and Edwards of North Carolina - sealed their political marriage during a 15-minute, early morning telephone conversation that papered over their differences in style and substance.

"I was humbled by his offer," Edwards said in a statement, "and thrilled to accept it."

Kerry, 60, a decorated Vietnam veteran whom critics call aloof, calculated that his ticket didn't need foreign policy heft as much as a bit of pizazz and the quick embrace of party activists who had rallied behind Edwards' stealth campaign for the No. 2 slot.

Edwards, 51, who made a fortune as a trial lawyer before jumping into politics in the 1990s as a self-styled champion for the common man, edged out several Washington veterans under consideration, including Rep. Dick Gephardt of Missouri and Sen. Bob Graham of Florida.

Along with Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack, a veteran of state politics with a low national profile, they were finalists in a process that began four months ago with a list of about 25 candidates.

In March, after defeating Gephardt, Graham, Edwards and several others in the Democratic primaries, Kerry told his vice presidential search team to help him find a political soul mate who would be "ready at any minute" to assume the presidency.


Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Senator John Edwards (D-NC) (C) arrives at the Greater Pittsburgh International Airport with his oldest daughter Catharine (R), six-year-old daughter Emma Clair, four-year old son Jack (L) July 6, 2004. Democrat John Kerry chose youthful energy over seasoned experience when he picked John Edwards as his running mate on Tuesday, hoping the fresh-faced rookie broadens the ticket's appeal and wins over swing voters crucial to capturing the White House in November. Edwards brings charisma and an image of sunny optimism to Kerry, a sometimes plodding campaigner who has been slammed by President George W. Bush as too pessimistic, and the choice balances the Massachusetts senator's sometimes elitist liberal image with a Southern populist from working-class roots. [Reuters]
Republicans on Tuesday questioned whether Edwards met either standard. While President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney politely welcomed Edwards to a "spirited race," their allies at the Republican National Committee issued a thick press release that called the first-term senator a politically inexperienced phony who is beholden to the trial-lawyer lobby.

"Disingenuous, unaccomplished liberal," the RNC said.

Edwards' relative lack of foreign policy work - he is a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee - could be an issue in a campaign shadowed by war, strategists in both parties said.

Privately, Bush advisers acknowledged that Edwards has the capacity to be formidable foe, helping Kerry to broaden the electoral map and sharpen his economic message.

Edwards entered the Senate and public life in 1998 after upsetting Republican Sen. Lauch Faircloth. The son of a mill worker, Edwards worked his way through college sweeping floors before converting his law degree into a multimillion-dollar practice specializing in medical malpractice and product liability judgments.

He jumped early into a Democratic nomination fight filled with more seasoned politicians, including Kerry, who questioned Edwards' decision to seek the presidency so early in his political career. In January, Kerry mocked Edwards' lack of international or military experience.

"When I came back from Vietnam in 1969," Kerry said, "I don't know if John Edwards was out of diapers then."

Mindful that Republicans will seize on the seasoning issue, Kerry assured supporters Tuesday, "John Edwards is ready for this job. He is ready for this job."

Obsessed with secrecy, Kerry kept his decision to himself until the last possible minute, giving Edwards no time to get to Pittsburgh for the announcement. The North Carolinian was at his Washington home, readying his children for summer camp, when he got word. Kerry supporters got word through an e-mail from the campaign.

Democrats predicted the folksy Edwards will help the ticket in rural America, where Kerry's patrician New England manner may not play as well. Democrats have lost enormous ground in the exurban and rural precincts, largely because of social issues such as abortions and gun control.

Edwards may also put his traditionally GOP state - and its 15 electoral votes - in play, along with other Southern venues, Democrats said.

During the primary campaign, Edwards did better than Kerry among Republicans and nearly as well among independents, according to exit polls conducted for The Associated Press by Edison Media Research and Mitofsky International. By comparison, among all voters in those primaries, Kerry beat Edwards 2-to-1.

Edwards portrayed himself as a positive campaigner, even as he criticized Kerry's trade policies and mocked his long-winded style. Edwards scored political points with an anti-Bush message about "two Americas" - one for the privileged and another for everybody else.

Kerry, who has had trouble crafting a general election message, said of the new ticket, "I am determined that we reach out across party lines, that we speak to the heart of America, that we speak of hope and of optimism."

Kerry's choice was a bow to party pressure: Edwards was the overwhelming choice of delegates to the Democratic National Convention, according to an AP survey, and party leaders had been urging Kerry to shed his initial resistance to the senator.

Edwards arrived in Pittsburgh in the afternoon for a dinner between the Edwards and Kerry families at Kerry's Pittsburgh estate. The candidates launch a multistate campaign tour in Ohio on Wednesday, ending in Edwards' home state Saturday.

They are the first senators to serve on the same ticket since 1972, when Democratic Sens. George McGovern of South Dakota and Thomas Eagleton of Missouri teamed up. Eagleton dropped out of the race because of his mental history.

A dozen years earlier, a Massachusetts senator with the initials JFK - John F. Kennedy - turned to a high-voltage Southerner he wasn't particularly fond of: Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas.

Suggesting that Edwards was Kerry's second choice, the Bush campaign rushed to the airwaves with an ad featuring Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who had rejected overtures from Kerry about a bipartisan ticket. In the spot, McCain praises Bush.

Kerry's team hurried out an ad featuring the newly minted ticket.

Kerry hopes the teaming dominates the political landscape during the three-week run-up to the Democratic National Convention in Boston.

Convention delegates will formally nominate the Kerry-Edwards ticket, whose common first names were celebrated at the Pittsburgh rally with a rendition of Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode."

Democrats, even supporters of the also-rans, united behind the ticket.

"This is the choice," said Rep. Ike Skelton, a Missouri Democrat who wanted Gephardt on the ticket. "You put everything else behind you."

Paper Gets Unfortunate Exclusive

The New York Post trumpeted Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry's choice of running mate as a front-page exclusive on Tuesday. Trouble is, it named the wrong man.


The front page of the tabloid New York Post incorrectly reported that Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry had picked U.S. Representative Richard Gephardt (D-MO) as his running mate on July 6, 2004. Kerry later announced that his choice was Senator John Edwards (D-NC). [Reuters]
Before Tuesday's long-awaited announcement, the tabloid reported in an unbylined story that Kerry's pick was Rep. Richard Gephardt of Missouri. But around 9 a.m. (1300 GMT), hours after the late edition hit the streets, Kerry named Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina.

"KERRY'S CHOICE Dem picks Gephardt as VP candidate," blared the banner headline in the Post, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp and is openly supportive of Republican President Bush.

The Post's fierce cross-town rival, the tabloid Daily News, could not resist poking fun.

Media sources said the News sent a case of champagne to Post editors and a note, "Congratulations on your front page. Have a nice day," with a smiley face. The barb refers to a Post advertisement near the Daily News building showing improved circulation figures, with the words "have a nice day" and smiley face.

The error recalls the infamous 1948 front-page headline in The Chicago Tribune that blared "Dewey Defeats Truman" -- when in fact Democrat Harry Truman won re-election to the White House against Republican Thomas Dewey in an upset.

Prof. David Rubin, a media expert at Syracuse University in upstate New York, said: "The mistake makes the New York Post look foolish and all it shows is that one should not trust the New York Post, a conservative Republican paper, on inside matters of the Democratic Party."

A spokesman for the Post declined immediate comment.



 
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