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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Security is more than having big strong guys standing in front of the candidate.
It requires intelligence and a wide range of skills and experience.
There are too many DEI employees at this point—and the SS culture has deteriorated with bad morale.
You do not want to have a Jewish family harassed by Pali protesters—especially if you can avoid it by just saying “no” to the VP nomination.
Makes for some great Republic ad opportunities.
I can only imagine that the reason to pick him would be to be assured that like the Reagan route in the 80’s, Reagan only lost Minnesota.
“”Who is in the line of succession after the vice president?”
Speaker of the House
“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.”
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By using (apparent third party) Crooks, it looks as if they were they looking for plausible deniability.
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.
My guess is that the POC/LGBTQ committee, that's been chaired by Barack Obama & running Biden/Harris like a pair of Muppets for 3-1/2 years, vetoed Shapiro because they're that far to the left. He's too friendly with Israel.
If Josh Shapiro had been an "I hate Israel, I love the Palestinians" Jew like Mayorkas (yes, he's a Cuban Jew), Yellen & so many others on the lunatic left-wing fringe, it would have been Lust At First Sight.
For real???Have a source for DUI store ?
That is such a funny song and so appropriate for Kamala.
Walz was chosen for three reasons. 1) He’s the only one that would take the job, 2) he’s expendable meaning he has no political future beyond MN and 3) he will shore up the Dem base in a effort to minimize Dem losses in Congress. They know Kamala can’t win and they are now playing defense.
Maybe MN wasn’t a lock.”
It is. Polls may be skewed but not by that much . MN is lost cause for us and she needs Pa. I am convinced there is something we don’t know here. The Shapiro sexual harassment thing may be worse than we know
I’m in Minnesota. Not far from St cloud actually. I think Trump might be up a point or two but I’ll admit I don’t go to the cities much. It’s a no-go zone to me. I’m sure it’s still a hive of liberals who can’t wait to vote for the losers.
Yup. The vodka soaked, botoxian, mafia queen, nasty Nancy.
Is she above arranging for a couple of ‘unfortunate accidents’?
His COVID policy of putting infected people back in nursing homes has pretty much killed all the old white people in Minnesota.
The Democrats are like the Borg. They will do as they are told. The hard left will vote for this ticket.
EXACTLY
The businesses that were burned out when George killed himself with Fentanyl employees= 93 % blacks.
A couple of days later, they suddenly realized they had NO JOBS.
Though dead, do they still vote?
We were part of the migration and left two years ago from MN. Couldn’t be happier to be gone. A once great state now a socialist/marxist haven with rampant crime due to the judges and DA’s letting it all go. ALL under the direction of Walz.
It isn’t. Democrats have controlled all three branches and all statewide elected offices for over 2 years now. They blew an 18 billion dollar surplus and raised taxes as well. $2 billion dollars worth of adjusted gross income has left the state. They have greatly expanded welfare programs including free school lunches to everybody including Rich White kids in affluent suburban areas. The governor has called outstate Minnesota rocks and cows country and those of us in that area are pissed.
Of course.
“”””Walz was chosen for three reasons. 1) He’s the only one that would take the job, 2) he’s expendable meaning he has no political future beyond MN and 3) he will shore up the Dem base in a effort to minimize Dem losses in Congress. They know Kamala can’t win and they are now playing defense.””””
Those were my thoughts also, this is a team of expendables.
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