Harris introduces new running mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as the 'vice president America deserves'
Walz, 60, emerged from a crowded field of potential VP picks, beating out numerous reported finalists
Walz, 60, emerged from a crowded field of potential VP picks, beating out numerous reported finalists
Walz, 60, emerged from a crowded field of potential VP picks, beating out numerous reported finalists
Kamala Harris introduced Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to the nation as 바카라 게임 웹사이트the vice president America deserves바카라 게임 웹사이트 at a raucous rally Tuesday in Philadelphia aimed at building momentum for the newly minted Democratic presidential ticket in the sprint toward Election Day.
바카라 게임 웹사이트I set out to find a partner who can help build this brighter future,바카라 게임 웹사이트 Harris said, joking that the past two weeks since she stepped into the race have been 바카라 게임 웹사이트something of a whirlwind.바카라 게임 웹사이트
바카라 게임 웹사이트I바카라 게임 웹사이트m here today because I바카라 게임 웹사이트ve found such a leader."
Walz soaked up the adulation of Harris and then turned it right around as he took the microphone, declaring to the vice president: 바카라 게임 웹사이트Thank you for bringing back the joy.바카라 게임 웹사이트
From there, he laid out his biography and took on their Republican opponents, former President Donald Trump and Ohio Sen. JD Vance, for their 바카라 게임 웹사이트backward agenda.바카라 게임 웹사이트
Revving up the crowd for the rigorous campaign to come, Walz told the roaring crowd, 바카라 게임 웹사이트We바카라 게임 웹사이트ve got 91 days. My God, that바카라 게임 웹사이트s easy. We바카라 게임 웹사이트ll sleep when we바카라 게임 웹사이트re dead.바카라 게임 웹사이트
In choosing the 60-year-old Walz, Harris is elevating a Midwestern governor, military veteran and union supporter who helped enact an ambitious Democratic agenda for his state, including sweeping protections for abortion rights and generous aid to families.
It was her biggest decision yet as the Democratic nominee and she went with a broadly palatable choice 바카라 게임 웹사이트 someone who says politics should have more joy and who deflects dark and foreboding rhetoric from Republicans with a lighter touch, a strategy that the campaign has been increasingly turning to since Harris took over the top spot.
바카라 게임 웹사이트He바카라 게임 웹사이트s the kind of person who makes people feel like they belong and then inspires them to dream big ... that바카라 게임 웹사이트s the kind of vice president America deserves,바카라 게임 웹사이트 Harris said.
Walz is joining Harris on the ticket during one of the most turbulent periods in modern American politics. Republicans have rallied around former President Donald Trump after he was targeted in an attempted assassination in July. Just days later, President Joe Biden ended his reelection campaign, forcing Harris to scramble to unify Democrats and decide on a running mate over a breakneck two-week stretch.
Harris hopes Walz will help her shore up her campaign바카라 게임 웹사이트s standing across the upper Midwest, a critical region in presidential politics that often serves as a buffer for Democrats seeking the White House. The party remains haunted by Trump바카라 게임 웹사이트s wins in Michigan and Wisconsin in 2016. Trump lost those states in 2020 but has zeroed in on them as he aims to return to the presidency this year and is expanding his focus to Minnesota.
Since Walz was announced, the team raised more than $10 million from grassroots donations, the campaign said.
Walz is far from a household name; conducted before he was selected but after vetting began showed that nearly 9 in 10 U.S. adults did not know enough to have an opinion about him. Harris devoted much of her speech to telling the audience about Walz life and work.
바카라 게임 웹사이트To those who know him best, Tim is more than a governor,바카라 게임 웹사이트 she said.
Harris, the first Black woman and person of South Asian descent to lead a major party ticket, initially considered nearly a dozen candidates before zeroing in on a handful of serious contenders.
Trump has focused much of his campaign on appealing to men, emphasizing a need for strength in national leadership and even featuring the wrestler Hulk Hogan on the final night of the Republican National Convention. Harris' finalists 바카라 게임 웹사이트 all white men 바카라 게임 웹사이트 marked an acknowledgement of the Democrat's need to at least try to win over some of that demographic.
She personally interviewed three finalists: Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly and Walz. Harris wanted someone with executive experience who could be a governing partner, and Walz also offered appeal to the widest swath of the diverse coalition.
His selection drew praise from lawmakers as ideologically diverse as progressive leader Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and independent Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, a moderate who left the Democratic Party earlier this year.
A team of lawyers and political operatives led by former Attorney General Eric Holder pored over documents and conducted interviews with potential selections. Harris mulled the decision over on Monday with top aides and finalized it Tuesday morning, according to three people familiar with Harris' decision who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe private deliberations.
Shapiro, an ambitious politician in his own right, struggled with the idea of being No. 2 at the White House and said he felt he had more to do in Pennsylvania, according to one of the people familiar with Harris' decision. There was also public pushback to Shapiro for his stance on Israel from Arab American groups and younger voters angry over the administration바카라 게임 웹사이트s response to the Israel-Hamas war.
The other contenders threw their support behind the ticket Tuesday, and Shapiro was one of the speakers at Tuesday's Philadelphia rally. Biden described the Harris and Walz ticket as 바카라 게임 웹사이트a powerful voice for working people and America바카라 게임 웹사이트s great middle class.바카라 게임 웹사이트
Walz coined one of Democrats' buzziest campaign bits to date, calling Trump and his running mate Ohio Sen. JD Vance 바카라 게임 웹사이트just weird,바카라 게임 웹사이트 a label that the Democratic Governors Association 바카라 게임 웹사이트 of which Walz is chairman 바카라 게임 웹사이트 and Democrats more broadly have echoed.
During a fundraiser for Harris on Monday in Minneapolis, Walz said: 바카라 게임 웹사이트It wasn바카라 게임 웹사이트t a slur to call these guys weird. It was an observation.바카라 게임 웹사이트
Harris, second gentleman Doug Emhoff and Walz will spend the next five days touring critical battleground states, visiting Wisconsin and Michigan on Wednesday and Arizona and Nevada later in the week.
Vance, for his part, planned stops in some of the same areas. He said Tuesday that he called Walz earlier in the day and left a voice message.
The Trump campaign on Tuesday immediately tried to tag Walz as a far-left liberal.
바카라 게임 웹사이트It바카라 게임 웹사이트s no surprise that San Francisco Liberal Kamala Harris wants West Coast wannabe Tim Walz as her running-mate 바카라 게임 웹사이트 Walz has spent his governorship trying to reshape Minnesota in the image of the Golden State,바카라 게임 웹사이트 said Karoline Leavitt, Trump바카라 게임 웹사이트s campaign press secretary. 바카라 게임 웹사이트Walz is obsessed with spreading California바카라 게임 웹사이트s dangerously liberal agenda far and wide.바카라 게임 웹사이트
Walz, who grew up in the small town of West Point, Nebraska, was a social studies teacher, football coach and union member at Mankato West High School in Minnesota before entering politics.
He won the first of six terms in Congress in 2006 from a mostly rural southern Minnesota district and used the office to champion veterans issues. Walz served 24 years in the Army National Guard, rising to command sergeant major, one of the highest enlisted ranks in the military, although he didn바카라 게임 웹사이트t complete all the training before he retired so his rank for benefits purposes was set at master sergeant.
He ran for governor in 2018 on the theme of 바카라 게임 웹사이트One Minnesota바카라 게임 웹사이트 and won by more than 11 points.
David Ivory, a 46-year-old St. Paul resident, rode over to Walz's residence on his bike with his kids shortly after the announcement to deliver their congratulations.
바카라 게임 웹사이트He바카라 게임 웹사이트s just down to earth. He gets it. He can talk to anybody,바카라 게임 웹사이트 Ivory said. 바카라 게임 웹사이트He doesn바카라 게임 웹사이트t seem like he바카라 게임 웹사이트s above anybody.바카라 게임 웹사이트
As governor, Walz had to find ways to work in his first term with a legislature split between a Democratic-controlled House and a Republican-led Senate. Minnesota has a history of divided government, though, and the arrangement was surprisingly productive in his first year.
Walz easily won reelection in 2022, and Democrats flipped the Senate to win full control of both chambers and the governor바카라 게임 웹사이트s office for the first time in eight years. A big reason was the Dobbs decision from the conservative-majority Supreme Court that overturned a federal right to an abortion.
Walz currently serves as co-chair of the bipartisan Council of Governors, advising the president and the Cabinet on homeland security and national defense issues. He was first appointed to the position by Trump, then later reappointed by Biden.
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Miller, Long and Kim reported from Washington. Karnowski reported from Minneapolis. Associated Press writers Michael Balsamo and Michelle L. Price in New York and Michael Goldberg in Minneapolis contributed to this report.