Tim Kaine visits the University of Florida on Sunday, Oct. 23, 2016.
Tim Kaine visits the University of Florida on Sunday, Oct. 23, 2016. Gainesville Mayor Lauren Poe, left, introduced him to the crowd of 800-plus people.
Topics that garnered the most cheers from the audience included LGBT rights, women's rights and policy to help students graduate college debt-free. Over 800 people attended the rally according to Kirsten Allen, North Florida Regional Press Secretary.
Volunteers at the rally, Fahim Chowdury (left), 18, Jocelyn Cuh, 18, Maya Schreiber, 18, and Amol Jethwani, 20, will all be first-time voters this election cycle. Chowdury, Cuh and Schreiber were all Hillary Clinton Organizing Fellows for the campaign.
Lead vocalist Justin McKenzie of The Savants of Soul, a Gainesville band, entertains the crowd as the audience waits for Tim Kaine to arrive. The group played the 1960 Ray Charles song
At the rally entrance, Christine Santilo (left), Merrillee Malwitz-Jipson, Joanne Tremblay, Laverne Hodge, Mitch Allen and Lisa Allen protest the construction of the Sabal Pipeline.
Huggy Black, 31 (left), and Saskia Niekoop, 31, said they felt the current election climate was
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Bryan Eastman (left), 27, and Jason Stanford, 40, hand out flyers for congressional candidate Ken McGurn. Stanford said the issue most important to him this election cycle was climate change because being a Florida native made the issue of rising sea levels feel more urgent.
Paid maternity leave and women's rights are issues that matter the most to Lori (left) and Kenny King, especially after having their daughter Nola, eight months ago.
Kaine said the campaign was focusing visiting on states with early voting -- Florida's early voting starts on Oct. 24, 2016.
Tim Kaine works the crowd during a visit to the University of Florida on Sunday, Oct. 23, 2016.
Vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine addresses supporters at the University of Florida on Sunday. (Cecilia Lemus/WUFT News)
Supporters listen at the Tim Kaine rally Sunday. (Cecilia Lemus/WUFT News)
Gainesville Mayor Lauren Poe, who introduced Tim Kaine to the stage, greets a Kaine supporter on Sunday. (Cecilia Lemus/WUFT News)