Can Tim Walz secure Midwestern swing states?
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🗓️ 6 August 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Since President Biden ended his re-election bid, the presidential campaign has been in overdrive, including the Vipstakes, a process that usually takes months, was shrunk down to just two weeks as Kamala Harris assessed |
| 0:14.5 | possible running mates. When the vetting started, most people weren't even |
| 0:19.1 | looking at the governor of Minnesota. The breakthrough moment for Tim Walls may have come from a single |
| 0:25.2 | word. Here's what he said on MS NBC's Morning Joe on July 23rd, just a couple days |
| 0:31.0 | after Biden dropped out. Well it's true, these guys are just weird. |
| 0:35.0 | weird. Weird. Suddenly the word was all over the campaign and people started paying closer attention to the |
| 0:41.1 | Minnesota governor. |
| 0:42.6 | Even former President Donald Trump felt compelled to respond on the Clay Travis and |
| 0:47.1 | Buck Sexton radio show. |
| 0:48.6 | Nobody's ever called me weird. |
| 0:50.4 | I'm a lot of things, but weird I'm not. |
| 0:52.3 | And I'm up front. things but weird I'm not and I'm up front and he's not either I will tell you |
| 0:56.8 | JD is not at all that they are in an interview with Ezra Klein of the New York Times last week, |
| 1:03.0 | walls reflected on why the word stuck. |
| 1:06.0 | The minute that spell came down, the minute everybody in the crowd realized the |
| 1:08.9 | Emperor wasn't wearing any clothes, we can sweep in and say, |
| 1:12.0 | who's asking to ban birth control? |
| 1:15.0 | Who's asking to ban these books? |
| 1:17.0 | Who's asking to take veterans benefits away? |
| 1:20.0 | The headline on that piece was, |
| 1:21.0 | Is Tim Wall's the Midwestern Dad Democrats need? |
| 1:25.0 | And in the end, Kamala Harris decided, yes, he is. |
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