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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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.
“I am seeing this rumor that Shapiro declined everywhere.”
I’m seeing it here of FR. I haven’t seen credible sources say that.
“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.
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
Hate to break it to you but she hasn’t been Speaker for some time now.
But does he add "gravitas" to the ticket?
He's not a "Zionist".
He has shown to be a boot licker of the muslim jihad radical threesome
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
It's so hard to hire good help these days.
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