Former Gov. Kean: Trump not only one to confuse him, Kaine

TRENTON >> Former Republican New Jersey Gov. Tom Kean laughed off GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump’S comments that Democratic U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine did a poor job governing New Jersey, and says other people have also confused the two.

Trump during a press conference Wednesday in Miami said Kaine still isn’t popular in New Jersey. Kaine was governor of Virginia, and is Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s running mate.

Trump corrected himself when asked if he meant Virginia.

Kean told The Recordsomeone at a restaurant in New York tried to congratulate him for being selected as Clinton’s running mate.

“Someone came over and said, ‘I want to shakeyourhand.Congratulations,’andIasked why and he said, ‘Hillary picked you,”’ Kean said. “I said, ‘Not quite.”’

KeanledNewJerseyfrom1982to1990while Trump was building his casino empire in Atlantic City. He skipped this year’s Republican National Convention because he doesn’t support Trump.

Kean,whoservedaschairmanofthebipartisan commission that investigated the securityfailuresthatledtotheSept.11attacks,said he didn’t know if Trump was being serious when Trump said he hopes Russia finds the “30,000 emails that are missing” from Clinton’s home email server she used while secretary of state.

Kean said intelligence agencies think cyber threats are the greatest threat the country currently faces. He said concerns about the Russians have been increasing for 10 years.

“They put it ahead of ISIS,” Kean said, referring to the Islamic State group based in parts of Syria and Iraq.