running mate 復習
すでにNaoさんがふれられていますが，クリントン氏は、副大統領候補として上院議員のティム・ケイン氏を指名しました。
Hillary Clinton Selects Tim Kaine, a Popular Senator From a Swing State, as Running Mate
TAMPA, Fla. — Hillary Clinton named Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia to be her running mate Friday, selecting a battleground-state politician with working-class roots and a fluency in Spanish, traits that she believes can bolster her chances to defeat Donald J. Trump in November.
Mrs. Clinton’s choice, which she announced via text message to supporters, came after her advisers spent months poring over potential vice-presidential candidates who could lift the Democratic ticket in an unpredictable race against Mr. Trump.
In the end, Mrs. Clinton decided that Mr. Kaine, 58, a former governor of Virginia who sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, had the qualifications and background, and the personal chemistry with her, to make the ticket a success.
Mrs. Clinton had entertained more daring choices. She considered Thomas E. Perez, the secretary of labor, who would have been the first Hispanic on a major party ticket; Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey, who would have been the first African-American to seek the vice presidency; and James G. Stavridis, a retired four-star Navy admiral who served as the supreme allied commander at NATO but had never held elected office.
Ultimately, Mrs. Clinton, who told PBS that she was “afflicted with the responsibility gene,” avoided taking a chance with a less experienced vice-presidential candidate and declined to push the historic nature of her candidacy by adding another woman or a minority to the ticket.
以下略
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/07/23/us/politics/tim-kaine-hillary-clinton-vice-president.html
取り上げる表現は、見出しにもある、"running mate"です。
『ジーニアス英和辞典』第4版(大修館)で調べると、「一対になった候補者のうちの下位の者(大統領候補に対する副大統領候補など)」とありました。
"running mate"を直訳すると、「伴走者」となり、そこから転じて、「大統領と共に一緒に国を支えていく仲間」といったニュアンスが含まれているかと思います。
ケイン氏はスペイン語が堪能であるため、ヒスパニック系からの支持が期待されそうです。(Akim)
