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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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Perfect as Trump can contrast Capitalism vs Socialism provided he stay laser beam focused and not venture off into random name calling.
Exactly. He is a counter to JD Vance - who was chosen (IMO) to secure the Rust Belt - dissatisfied White voters in the Rust Belt area whose votes both sides desperately need.
I guess, they are worrying about loosing Minnesota?!
“...boasting a robustly progressive record.”
That’s one way to put it.
If you naïvely think being “progressive” is a good thing.
And you’re blissfully unaware of any reasons why it might in reality be evil and un-American.
This “journalist” obviously wasted his or her college years.
You raise several talking points & I could talk for an hour about any one of them, but I gotta get to work, it's 9:00 AM here.
I believe the whole charade is being manipulated by a POC/LGBTQ committee. This is Obama's third term. Karine Jean-Pierre is the perfect spokes creature for this committee: black, lesbian Third World immigrant. They've operated Biden like a Muppet for 3-1/2 years.
The Secret Service? Don't get me started. My hypothesis is that the Secret Service wanted to let Trump get killed & it was just dumb luck (or, as I prefer to believe, God's blessing) that Trump didn't get his brains splattered all over the podium.
Everything about that day indicates that they were just letting it happen.
It’s a big surprise to me. When I saw the announcement was in Pa l thought Shapiro was locked. I think they might have switched it when the sexual harassment thing popped up. That may have been worse than we know. We needed some good news after the recent polls
Maybe MN wasn’t a lock.
this will make it that much easier to kill the JEWS AND DESTROY ISRAEL. Good job Calamity Harris!
Yessssssss. Thank you, God.
It may be that the others declined. Governor Cooper openly said that he declined. Harris a boat anchor.
Shapiro was at least something of a moderate. Beshear, too.
Walz is further to the left than Kamala is, a self-admitted socialist with a well-documented history of embracing extremely far left positions way outside of the mainstream, particularly during Covid and the Floyd riots.
Picking Walz was the first major mistake Kamala has made during her short campaign. Hopefully Trump and Vance can capitalize on this and forget about attacking Brian Kemp for a while.
Harris didn’t pick this guy. The puppet masters picked him for her.
The new dance craze!
The Kamala Waltz, starts with the girl on her knees!
LMAO
I guess she needed the Muslim vote which is huge now in Minnesota because trump is probably just a couple of pts behind. The terrorists have taken over that state. So consider Minnesota lost to Trump but it’s OK we can work with the others. I was more afraid of Kelly being her running mate. He’s got more appeal and his wife was almost assassinated so they could’ve gotten the sympathy vote along with the astronaut hero status vote in AZ! So consider her dumb choice for now as a win for our side! 😂
The Democrats don't get the Melissa McCarthy DEI secret service agents. They're not stupid. They get the white guys, the former Navy SEALs.
My guess is that Shapiro said No.
Odd thought.
Who is in the line of succession after the vice president?
Walz tried to get out of a DUI by pretending to be deaf.
“”someone with a proven record of winning over white working-class voters in Rust Belt states””
The writer is confused - Walz would only have proven that he could get voters to back him in ONE state - his own!
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