Nyorai mberi kweiyi ndima - Kaine akazivisa rutsigiro rwake rwekukwikwidza kwaBarack Obama semutungamiri wenyika
muna February 2007. Zvakatsigirwa kuti rutsigiro rwaKaine rwaive rwokutanga kubva kumukuru akasarudzwa kunze kweIllinois. Nemhaka yokuti Kaine akanga ari gavhuna akakurumbira zvikuru worumwe rudzi rwokuMaodzanyemba, kwakanga kune fungidziro mumapepanhau yokuti aigona kusarudzwa kuti ave mutevedzeri womutungamiri wenyika. Obama akanga atsigira Kaine mumushandirapamwe wake wokutsvaka kuva gavhuna, achiti, "Tim Kaine ane shoko romutoro wezvemari uye rupo rwomudzimu. Shoko rakadaro rinogona kutengeswa kwose kwose". Musi waChikunguru 28, 2008, Politico yakashuma kuti Kaine aive "akareba kwazvo" pane runyorwa rweObama rwevamiriri vemutungamiri wenyika, runyorwa rwaisanganisirawo Senator Hillary Clinton weNew York, Gavhuna Kathleen Sebelius weKansas, Senator Evan Bayh weIndiana, uye Senator Joe Biden weDelaware. Pakupedzisira Obama akasarudza Biden. Zvakazonzi Obama akaudza Kaine, paakamuudza mashoko acho, kuti, "Iwe ndiwe wandinoda, asi Joe [Biden] ndiye wandinoda". Obama akazonyora kuti pakupedzisira akanga apfupikisa kusarudzwa kwomumiriri wake kuna Kaine naBiden. Akati, "Panguva iyoyo, ndakanga ndiri pedyo zvikuru naTim", asi Obama nevapi vezano vake David Axelrod naDavid Plouffe vakashamisika kana vavhoti vaizogamuchira tikiti re "magweta maviri madiki, asina ruzivo, uye akasununguka kodzero dzevanhu" uye Obama akanzwa kusiyana pakati pake naBiden kwaive simba, uye kuti zera raBiden neruzivo zvaizonyaradza vavhoti vanonetsekana kuti Obama aive mudiki kwazvo kuti ave mutungamiri wenyika.