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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: Drew68

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.


61 posted on 08/06/2024 7:16:59 AM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: Zhang Fei

Makes for some great Republic ad opportunities.


62 posted on 08/06/2024 7:19:11 AM PDT by politicket
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To: Zhang Fei

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.


63 posted on 08/06/2024 7:19:44 AM PDT by Dacula (Catholics against Kamala)
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To: null and void

“”Who is in the line of succession after the vice president?”

Speaker of the House


64 posted on 08/06/2024 7:20:03 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Bryan

“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.”

__________

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.


65 posted on 08/06/2024 7:20:44 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: NCLaw441
My guess is that Shapiro said No.

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.

66 posted on 08/06/2024 7:21:25 AM PDT by Bryan ( The Democrats are bankrupting this country, one welfare check at a time)
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To: Drew68

For real???Have a source for DUI store ?


67 posted on 08/06/2024 7:24:15 AM PDT by mware
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To: TexasFreeper2009

That is such a funny song and so appropriate for Kamala.


68 posted on 08/06/2024 7:24:43 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: Zhang Fei

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.


69 posted on 08/06/2024 7:25:56 AM PDT by Pres Raygun (Repent America)
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To: Baldwin77

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


70 posted on 08/06/2024 7:28:30 AM PDT by iamgalt (.)
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To: RoseofTexas

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.


71 posted on 08/06/2024 7:30:07 AM PDT by cableguymn (They don't want peace they want skeletons )
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To: Thank You Rush

Yup. The vodka soaked, botoxian, mafia queen, nasty Nancy.

Is she above arranging for a couple of ‘unfortunate accidents’?


72 posted on 08/06/2024 7:30:25 AM PDT by null and void (I identify as a conspiracy theorist. My personal pronouns are told/you/so.)
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To: nwrep

His COVID policy of putting infected people back in nursing homes has pretty much killed all the old white people in Minnesota.


73 posted on 08/06/2024 7:32:42 AM PDT by cableguymn (They don't want peace they want skeletons )
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To: logi_cal869

The Democrats are like the Borg. They will do as they are told. The hard left will vote for this ticket.


74 posted on 08/06/2024 7:33:25 AM PDT by cableguymn (They don't want peace they want skeletons )
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To: central_va

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.


75 posted on 08/06/2024 7:34:14 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: cableguymn

Though dead, do they still vote?


76 posted on 08/06/2024 7:35:46 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: Languager

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.


77 posted on 08/06/2024 7:36:46 AM PDT by Solson (2024 doesn't matter until we learn how to cheat better.)
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To: Baldwin77

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.


78 posted on 08/06/2024 7:39:15 AM PDT by cableguymn (They don't want peace they want skeletons )
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To: one guy in new jersey

Of course.


79 posted on 08/06/2024 7:39:47 AM PDT by cableguymn (They don't want peace they want skeletons )
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To: Pres Raygun

“”””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.


80 posted on 08/06/2024 7:42:56 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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