Is Tim Walz the right choice as Kamala Harris’ running mate?
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🗓️ 9 August 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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With less than 90 days until November 5, leading Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris named Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate. Donald Trump got the VP opponent he wanted, and Republicans already began digging up dirt. The panel discusses what’s next as both tickets are complete: Harris/Walz and Trump/Vance.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Left, right, and center. |
| 0:02.8 | I'm McKay Koppens, staff writer at the Atlantic, and your host this week, filling in for David Green. |
| 0:08.6 | The Democratic Party's reset for the presidential election is complete, just two weeks before the party's |
| 0:14.2 | convention in Chicago. Vice President Kamala Harris announced Minnesota |
| 0:18.4 | Governor Tim Walls as her running mate this week. A fighter for the middle class, a patriot who believes as I do |
| 0:28.0 | in the extraordinary promise of |
| 0:40.9 | promise of America |
| 0:41.9 | a promise of freedom, opportunity, and justice, not just for some but for all. So Pennsylvania I'm here today because I'm here today because I found such a leader. |
| 1:03.0 | Governor Tim Wall of the great state of Minnesota. I'm here with our regular left, right, and center panel. We have |
| 1:17.3 | Mo Aleithi, Executive Director at Georgetown University's Institute of |
| 1:21.6 | Politics and Public Service. |
| 1:23.1 | He was also Communications Director for the Democratic National Committee and an advisor to Hillary |
| 1:27.9 | Clinton. |
| 1:29.8 | And Sarah Isger, senior editor at the dispatch, she is a lawyer and was the spokesperson at the Department of Justice under President Trump. |
| 1:38.0 | Hey, McKay. |
| 1:40.0 | Hey, McKay. |
| 1:41.0 | Welcome back, McKay. |
| 1:42.0 | Thanks for welcoming me back to your show on such a newsy week. |
| 1:48.5 | So I want to get your thoughts on this. |
| 1:50.8 | Harris's potential VP selection was a point of a lot of scrutiny. |
| 1:56.4 | Up through this weekend it seemed like it came down to Walls and Pennsylvania Governor |
| 2:01.3 | Josh Shapiro. |
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