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August 06, 2024 08:24 AM UTC

Presenting The Harris/Walz Ticket

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  • by: Colorado Pols

UPDATE #2: The Trump campaign is perplexed at how to respond:

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UPDATE: Colorado’s Gov. Jared Polis thumbs-ups the selection of fellow Gov. Tim Walz to serve as Vice President after humorously level-setting his own chances of being picked last month:

With a proven Governor on Kamala Harris’s ticket, the path to victory is now even brighter. My friend Tim Walz is a strong governor who has delivered results, fought to protect and expand our freedom, and has a shared vision to help build a better future.

Sen. Michael Bennet:

Governor Tim Walz has been a longtime champion for ending child poverty. Together, we can send him and VP Harris to the White House and build an economy that when it grows, grows for everyone, not just the people at the top.

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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D).

NBC News reports the story driving the day today, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has been selected by Vice President Kamala Harris to take over her job when Harris shatters the nation’s final glass ceiling in November:

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.

Rep. Diana DeGette of Denver, who served with Walz in the House, was quick to respond with enthusiasm this morning over his selection:

We’ll update with more local reactions as they come in. The consensus view this morning is that Walz is an energizing pick for the progressive Democratic base, who can appeal to crucial Rust Belt constituencies more authentically than his ill-conceived counterpart on the right.

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  2. No leak until the day OF the announcement.

    I'm amused by the various news sources listing the number of their sources "close to the decision."

    Wait 30 minutes or so, and one can find "In a Tuesday morning post on X, Walz said joining the ticket with Harris is “the honor of a lifetime.”"

      3. She has some pretty damned good people around her and has studied with Barack and Joe…two of the smartest, craftiest, politicians in recent memory. IMHO

  4. Walz should do a big tour of small cities in the Farm, Prairie and Mountain States:

    Sit down in diners and chat with the local Chamber of Commerce people.

    • Billings, Helena, Great Falls and Missoula.
    • Grand Junction, Durango, Greeley and Pueblo.
    • Reno, Elko, Reno, and um Reno

     

    1. The Midwestern Dad Dems Need – TPM

      The videos and anecdotes depicting Walz’s “Midwestern dad energy” are ABUNDANT on social media. 

      A bit on Walz’s background: Walz was born and raised in rural Nebraska and enlisted in the Army National Guard at age 17. He moved to Minnesota in 1996 with his wife and taught at a high school, where he also spent time coaching football.

      After his career as a teacher, Walz ran for Congress. In 2006, he upset longtime Republican Rep. Gil Gutknecht and went on to represent southern Minnesota in Congress for more than a decade.

      In 2017, he announced his first bid for governor and emerged victorious by a double-digit margin, upsetting Republican Jeff Johnson. The 60-year-old won his reelection campaign in 2022 with 52% of the vote — after campaigning mainly on protecting access to abortion services in Minnesota after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

      Since the midterm elections, Walz, with the help of Democratic control of his state legislature, has been checking off one progressive legislative victory after another. They secured free breakfast and lunch for students, legalized protections for abortion as well as those seeking gender-affirming care, put restrictions on guns, legalized marijuana, restored voting rights to the formerly incarcerated and implemented paid family and medical leave benefits for workers.

      1. In contrast to the current “Republican” pair, with DJ Trump going to a high school prep/military academy and JD Vance serving one 4-year tour and earning a promotion to Corporal. 

        Walz:

        • “was a field artilleryman who has tinnitus as diagnosed by the VA, so he understands the plight of our brother and sister veterans.””
        • “enlisted in the Army National Guard in Nebraska in 1981 and retired honorably in 2005 as the top enlisted soldier for 1st Battalion, 125th Field Artillery Regiment, in the Minnesota National Guard,”
        • “reached the rank of command sergeant major and served in that role,”
        • “retired as a master sergeant for benefits purposes because he didn’t finish a required training course,”

    2. "Midwestern Cultural Signifiers." Josh Marshall at TPM.

      I think the argument for Walz is that he has cultural signifiers that play outside of the cities in the industrial Midwest. And that is a big asset. More specifically, he is the pied piper of Weird ™, and that of course is a huge feather in his cap. In case you haven’t followed this closely it was Walz who seeded this grounded in a series of interviews just after Harris took over from Biden.

      …

      A final thought on this. I’ve seen suggestions that Walz’s Midwestern ‘moderate’ vibes are what seal this for him. Labor seems have preferred Walz and there are various reasons why Walz carried weight with progressives apart from the Gaza debate. All of this combined reminds me how little of this is tied to policy, specific policy issues that would mark someone as one thing or another in the Democratic party in ideological terms. This is far more an issue of cultural markers than policy. This observation isn’t pro- or con- Walz or any other runner up. And it’s not even a criticism of that prism for politics. Democrats have long been guilty of a sort of policy literalism that gets them crosswise on political questions. It’s simply an observation about contemporary politics and and vocabulary of signifiers embedded in geography and what amount to folkways. And from what I can see Walz has the right signifiers, arguably better than Shapiro’s.

      1. Spot on with this point of view. He delivers in the heartland. I don't know how they thread the needle and hold on to both the Jewish vote and the pro Hamas vote, but it seems like they might just pull it off.

  6. Yeah, It's all about Socialism and the Squad:

    Republican Press Secretary on Tim Walz:

    It’s no surprise that San Francisco Liberal Kamala Harris wants West Coast wannabe Tim Walz as her running-mate – Walz has spent his governorship trying to reshape Minnesota in the image of the Golden State. While Walz pretends to support Americans in the Heartland, when the cameras are off, he believes that rural America is ‘mostly cows and rocks’. From proposing his own carbon-free agenda, to suggesting stricter emission standards for gas-powered cars, and embracing policies to allow convicted felons to vote, Walz is obsessed with spreading California’s dangerously liberal agenda far and wide. If Walz won’t tell voters the truth, we will: just like Kamala Harris, Tim Walz is a dangerously liberal extremist, and the Harris-Walz California dream is every American’s nightmare.”

    2. West Coast wannabe? Where do they get this stuff? Walz is a DFLer; you can’t be more of a “sensible, moderate” Democrat than that.

      1. Yeah, Republicans are actually concerned. It's hard when Walz is the opposite of the caricatures or stereotypes they portray all liberals/Democrats being as. He's a gun owner, has miliary experience, represented a conservative district for years, loves football, and comes from a rural background. Walz couldn't have been a better selection. 

  7. “rural America is mostly cows and rocks…..”

    The MAGA More – Ooons aren’t smart enough to know that the Democratic Party does not exist in Minnesota.

    It’s the Democrat Farmer Labor Party, or DFL. Trump handlers like Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita don’t know this.

    1. I'm betting Tim Walz has a pretty good idea of the "rural" Minnesota …

      Walz is remembered as an influential teacher and coach who mentored students beyond the classroom and field and helped lead the football team to state championships.

      Windshield time as he drove around the state to games probably had him seeing more than "rocks and cows" — and last I checked, people don't drill as artillery troops anyplace close to the most urban areas.

  8. I'm very pleased truthfully. Even though I believed Walz was the best choice for VP (even though all the choices were amazing), I was a little skeptical he would be selected. Yet he was. I'm happily confused, where is "the Dems are in disarray" that I expected was going to happen if Biden continued or after he dropped out? I almost expected the VP pick to finally be the thing that would ignite a firestorm among the media and liberals alike to attack trivial but somehow controversial things they supposedly did? Where has this version of the Democratic Party been?  Regardless, I'm pleased with the results.

  10. The more I read about Tim Walz, the more I like.  The contrast between the candidates couldn't be greater.  Debates will set Trump and Vance's hair on fire. The media distortion field that has protected them is about to burst.  They should be afraid, very afraid of Harris-Walz 😉

    “These are weird people on the other side,” Walz said in a recent MSNBC interview. “They want to take books away, they want to be in your exam room. … They are bad on foreign policy, they are bad on the environment, they certainly have no health-care plan, and they keep talking about the middle class. As I said, a robber baron real estate guy and a venture capitalist trying to tell us they understand who we are? They don’t know who we are.”

    He also recently called Trump a “bully”: “Don’t lift these guys up like they’re some kind of heroes. Everybody in this room knows, I know it as a teacher, a bully has no self-confidence. A bully has no strength. They have nothing.”

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