Tim Kaine to Campaign for Clinton in Bethesda

BETHESDA, MD — Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's running mate, U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, will appear at a fundraiser for the ticket Monday, Oct. 17, in Bethesda, the Clinton campaign announced.

The campaign said they'll be revealing more information, including the location and time, soon. The minimum ticket price for the fundraise is $100, with a top tier of $50,000.

You can reserve a chat and photo opp with the candidate by donating online.

On Wednesday, Kaine will also urge voters to get ready for Election Day by registering to vote ahead of the Oct. 17 deadline or by checking their registration status atiwillvote.com.

A new Washington Post-University of Maryland poll released this week gives the Clinton-Kaine ticket a 63 to 27 percent lead over businessman Donald Trump in Maryland.

Kaine dueled on the debate stage Tuesday night with Trump's VP pick, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, but the evening was more about the top of their tickets — Clinton and Trump — and how they measured up on temperament, qualifications and records. At the end of 90 minutes of heated discussion, the debate appeared to be a wash, not moving the needle in any direction for either campaign: While Kaine often appeared to have pulled ahead on substantive matters, Pence gave the appearance of a calm, level-headed nominee as he was bombarded by interruptions from his opponent.

Kaine sought to strike Trump at the outset of the debate by saying that for him and his wife, who have a son in the Marines, "the thought of Donald Trump as commander in chief scares us to death."

Kaine continued to hammer Trump on his temperament, accusing him of perpetuating an "outrageous lie" in insisting that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States and admonished him for calling Mexicans criminals and rapists in his announcement speech last year — an argument that Kaine repeated throughout the evening.

Clinton and Trump will have their second of three presidential debates at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, on Sunday evening, Oct. 9. The town hall format will be moderated by Anderson Cooper of CNN and Martha Raddatz of ABC News.

Half of the questions will be posed directly by citizen participants and the other half will be posed by the moderator based on topics of broad public interest as reflected in social media and other sources, according to the Commission on Presidential Debates. You can send in your question for the moderators to consider via the internet and vote on ones submitted by others.

So, here's your chance: What question would you ask of Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton at Sunday's debate?

Polls conducted in the days following the first presidental debate gave Clinton the win with 53 percent, versus 18 percent for Trump, according to a Washington Post/ABC News poll. More importantly, Clinton expanded her lead in national and battleground-state polls after the debate.

PHOTO of Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine at Clinton campaign rally in July at Northern Virginia Community College. Photo courtesy of Clinton campaign