--- title: Tim Kaine's Speech in Spanish at an Arizona Rally: Read Now description: Vice-presidential hopeful Tim Kaine on Thursday delivered a speech in Spanish at a campaign rally in Phoenix, Arizona. canonical: https://time.com/4557271/tim-kaine-speech-spanish-arizona/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-11-03T22:02:37.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:45:22.488Z article:section: Politics og:title: Read the Transcript of Tim Kaine’s Speech in Spanish og:description: "Todos somos americano" og:url: https://time.com/4557271/tim-kaine-speech-spanish-arizona/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc96ab42b1bed1259/6988aceefb4eac392388fbbb/tim-kaine-spanish-speech.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Tim Kaine Attends Voting Rally In Miami og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Read the Transcript of Tim Kaine’s Speech in Spanish twitter:description: "Todos somos americano" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc96ab42b1bed1259/6988aceefb4eac392388fbbb/tim-kaine-spanish-speech.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Read the Transcript of Tim Kaine’s Speech in Spanish at a Rally in Arizona by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Nov 3, 2016 10:02 PM UTC  Democratic vice presidential nominee U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) speaks during a campaign rally at Florida International University on Oct. 24, 2016 in Miami, Florida. Democratic vice presidential nominee U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) speaks during a campaign rally at Florida International University on Oct. 24, 2016 in Miami, Florida.Johnny Louis—WireImage by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Nov 3, 2016 10:02 PM UTC Democratic vice-presidential hopeful [Tim Kaine](http://time.com/4537499/tim-kaine-guns-in-the-hands-of-artists/) on Thursday delivered a [speech in Spanish](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/10/31/tim-kaine-plans-to-deliver-campaign-speech-in-arizona-entirely-in-spanish/) at a campaign rally in Phoenix, Arizona. Below are his remarks in Spanish and an English translation. --- > “” --- --- > “” --- ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4557271/tim-kaine-speech-spanish-arizona/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4557271/tim-kaine-speech-spanish-arizona/"},"headline":"Read the Transcript of Tim Kaine’s Speech in Spanish at a Rally in Arizona","datePublished":"2016-11-03T22:02:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:45:22.488Z","description":"\"Todos somos americano\"","url":"https://time.com/4557271/tim-kaine-speech-spanish-arizona/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc96ab42b1bed1259/6988aceefb4eac392388fbbb/tim-kaine-spanish-speech.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc96ab42b1bed1259/6988aceefb4eac392388fbbb/tim-kaine-spanish-speech.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Tim Kaine Attends Voting Rally In Miami","caption":"Democratic vice presidential nominee U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) speaks during a campaign rally at Florida International University on Oct. 24, 2016 in Miami, Florida.","creditText":"Johnny Louis—WireImage","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4557271/tim-kaine-speech-spanish-arizona/","name":"Read the Transcript of Tim Kaine’s Speech in Spanish at a Rally in Arizona"}}]}] ```