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Harris picks Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz for running mate
NBC ^ | Aug. 6, 2024, 8:13 AM CDT | By Adam Edelman, Monica Alba and Yamiche Alcindor

Posted on 08/06/2024 6:36:48 AM PDT by Zhang Fei

Vice President Kamala Harris has selected Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her vice presidential running mate, according to three sources with knowledge of the pick, adding a popular Midwestern state executive to the Democratic ticket as the party gears up to hold onto key Northern battleground states this fall.

In picking Walz, who's in his second term and also served 12 years in Congress, Harris will have as her No. 2 someone with a proven record of winning over white working-class voters in Rust Belt states while also boasting a robustly progressive record.

Democrats will hope that mix of attributes helps a Harris-Walz ticket shore up support in the onetime “blue wall” states of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan — longtime Democratic strongholds at the presidential level that Donald Trump flipped in 2016 and Joe Biden flipped back in 2020. This year, they’ve been seen as Biden’s, and now Harris’, most viable path to victory.

Walz, 60, had initially been viewed as a long shot in a field of vice presidential contenders that included rising party stars, some of whom have been mentioned as future presidential candidates, including Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: harris; mn; trump; walz
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To: nwrep

Minnesotans remember and you can remind them. Those of us with dead relatives because of his policies will never, ever, forget.

The vax is a net negative for trump. Most are willing to cut him some slack for the way it was handled.


101 posted on 08/06/2024 8:30:04 AM PDT by cableguymn (They don't want peace they want skeletons )
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“I am seeing this rumor that Shapiro declined everywhere.”

I’m seeing it here of FR. I haven’t seen credible sources say that.


102 posted on 08/06/2024 8:52:45 AM PDT by snarkybob
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To: Golden Eagle

“Trump’s best play in response would be to tone down his act and focus on Harris’s policy failures, but he’s not prone to do that, and most of his supporters seem more interested in hearing the tough talk and mud-slinging as well.”

I believe you are correct. I expect Trump to continue with the tough talk and the name-calling.

This is going to be a close election and the Democrats have played it very well so far.
Many Freepers seem more comfortable with an echo chamber that reassures them.

Trump is going to have a harder time attacking Harris on a personal level. Groups like Republicans for Harris are going to be everywhere confirming that Trump is a racist and sexist.

Like it or not, conservatives are not the majority anymore. Trump is going to need every voter he can get.


103 posted on 08/06/2024 9:04:41 AM PDT by snarkybob
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To: Kid Shelleen; All

Timothy Walz -— A Manchurian Candidate ???

After graduating from Chadron State College, he accepted a teaching position for a year in China. (He can still speak some Mandarin Chinese.)

Walz ran Educational Travel Adventures, which organized summer educational trips for high school students to China.

https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1820822086954185095


104 posted on 08/06/2024 9:28:02 AM PDT by Texan4Life
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To: null and void

Hate to break it to you but she hasn’t been Speaker for some time now.


105 posted on 08/06/2024 10:05:47 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: ProudDeplorable
Minnesota was firmly behind Harris anyway. No electoral pickup selecting the fat bald guy.

But does he add "gravitas" to the ticket?

106 posted on 08/06/2024 10:07:47 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Republican Wildcat
But does he add "gravitas" to the ticket?

He's not a "Zionist".

107 posted on 08/06/2024 10:08:39 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Biblebelter

He has shown to be a boot licker of the muslim jihad radical threesome


108 posted on 08/06/2024 10:58:34 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: ronnie raygun

Tim Walz - Wants to invest in a ladder factory to get illegals over Trump’s border wall

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz says he wants to invest in a “ladder factory” to help illegal immigrants climb Trump’s border wall, says we won’t have Thanksgiving dinner anymore without illegal immigrant workers.

Recent polling shows a majority of Americans support building a border wall

https://x.com/AlphaNewsMN/status/1819097053395292341


109 posted on 08/06/2024 4:38:34 PM PDT by Texan4Life
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To: one guy in new jersey
Now, with Crooks having failed and been blown to smithereens, they’re wringing their hands and moaning about how: If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself.

It's so hard to hire good help these days.

110 posted on 08/07/2024 7:57:11 AM PDT by Bryan ( The Democrats are bankrupting this country, one welfare check at a time)
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