Harris/Walz Campaign Kicks Off, Walz's MN Record, UK Riots
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🗓️ 7 August 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Vice President Kamala Harris introduced her running mate Minnesota |
| 0:06.1 | Governor Tim Walls at a rally in Philadelphia. With his experience I'm |
| 0:10.8 | telling you Tim Walls will be ready on day one. |
| 0:15.0 | What did he have to say? |
| 0:16.3 | I'm E. Martinez with Michelle Martin, |
| 0:17.9 | and this is up first from NPR News. |
| 0:20.2 | We'll have more about the path for Governor Walls, from high school geography |
| 0:26.4 | teacher to football coach to running for public office. It was a combination |
| 0:30.0 | of being a little bit frustrated in kind of a sad epiphany moment how it felt |
| 0:34.3 | were people to be looked right through by people. What about his track record as |
| 0:37.6 | governor? And riders are carrying out racist and anti-immigrant attacks |
| 0:41.7 | and cities across the UK. |
| 0:43.4 | What's the UK government doing about it and what does Elon Musk have to say? |
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| 1:17.0 | Christian Nationalists want to turn America into a Theocracy, |
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