‘I’m with boring’: Hill taps Kaine for veep

Hillary Clinton named Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine as her vice presidential running mate Friday night.

“I’m thrilled to announce my running mate, @TimKaine, a man who’s devoted his life to fighting for others,” Clinton, who will appear with Kaine in Miami Saturday, said in a tweet.

Kaine, 58, is centrist Democrat with a moderately liberal record from a battleground state.

He’s admittedly “boring” — and that’s precisely what Clinton wants.

“I love that about him,” Clinton told Charlie Rose on Monday. “He’s never lost an election. He was a world-class mayor, governor and senator and is one of the most highly respected senators I know.”

Kaine served a term as governor of Virginia and mayor of Richmond. He backed Barack Obama, a fellow Harvard Law graduate, over Clinton in the 2008 presidential race.

After being elected, Obama-picked Kaine to head the Democratic National Committee.

Kaine was at the helm when the Democrats suffered what Obama called a “shellacking” in 2010, losing their House majority amid a Tea Party revolt following the passage of the Affordable Care Act.

Kaine ran for a Virginia Senate seat in 2012 when Jim Webb retired, and won by six percentage points.

He has national-security experience, serving both on the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees.

Kaine has been at odds with the leftist Bernie Sanders wing of the Democratic Party.

Clinton, as secretary of state, advocated for the Trans Pacific Partnership but turned against it while facing pressure from anti-free trader Sanders in the primaries.

Kaine has defended his support of TPP, asking, “Why would I not give to this president the same tools to negotiate a trade deal that other presidents have had?”

Kaine and Clinton are broadly in agreement on most issues including restoring “fairness” to the tax code, protecting LGBT rights and limiting assault rifles.

Kaine and his wife, Anne Holton, who is Virginia’s secretary of education, have three grown children.