Could Tim Walz win over Trump voters?
The News Agents - USA
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4.3 • 719 Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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What does Kamala Harris see in Tim Walz that has propelled him to be her VP pick? And what lines of attack will Trump and Vance use against the pairing now?
Walz is little known in much of America - the Minnesota governor, former veteran and school coach has got progressive left policies but he is a gun owner with a love of hunting and fishing. Can he win over the men who once voted Trump?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents USA podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:07.2 | And to his former high school football players, he was coach. |
| 0:16.4 | Coach. |
| 0:18.1 | Coach. |
| 0:39.5 | And in 91 days, the nation will know Coach Wals by another name, Vice President of the United States. |
| 0:49.0 | That was Kamala Harris introducing Tim Woolz, her running mate, to the American public. And I haven't heard roars like that at a Democrat debate event for years. Something has changed |
| 1:01.6 | with Biden's departure and the appointment of this guy Tim Wool's who hardly anyone knew until |
| 1:09.0 | last night. Tim Woolse seems like a canny choice, possibly also a chemistry choice. |
| 1:14.9 | And on paper, you can see why he makes sense. |
| 1:18.0 | A veteran, a teacher, a coach. |
| 1:20.3 | But it's when he starts speaking, you suddenly understand how this could change the game. |
| 1:28.9 | Welcome to the Newsagents USA. |
| 1:35.0 | It's John. |
| 1:38.5 | It's Emily. |
| 1:39.7 | And I haven't seen fervour like that among Democrats since 2008, since attending Obama rallies, |
| 1:49.0 | when he was the great hope for the Democratic Party. |
| 1:51.8 | It was absent throughout the 2016 race with Hillary Clinton. |
| 1:57.0 | She didn't fire up an audience. |
| 1:58.7 | There was affection for her, but there wasn't that raw enthusiasm |
| 2:02.7 | that was on show in Philadelphia last night, and certainly with Biden. I mean, his rallies were |
| 2:08.2 | kind of dull, I mean, such as they were, given that during 2020, it was COVID, and he was in a basement |
| 2:14.9 | in Wilmington, Delaware. And last night, the combination of |
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