Kamala Harris chooses Tim Walz as her running mate: Amid unprecedented challenges, a transforming antidote to fear
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 7 August 2024
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Kamala Harris selected Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate yesterday, introducing him at a rally in Philadelphia. Meanwhile, US military assets focused on China are now being reassigned to support Israel in their rising tension with Iran. Today we explore how the transformative love of Christ relates to a chaotic and fearful time like this.
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| 0:00.0 | Good day. It's Wednesday, August the 7th, 2024, and this is the Daily Article Podcast. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm Chris Elkins, narrating today's article written by Denison Forum co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 0:16.7 | Carl Rove is a political consultant and former White House deputy chief of staff. |
| 0:21.6 | In a recent Wall Street Journal commentary, he writes, |
| 0:24.6 | No presidential election has been remotely like this one. |
| 0:29.6 | Let's list some ways he's right. |
| 0:31.6 | Kamala Harris formally secured the Democratic presidential nomination on Monday, |
| 0:35.6 | becoming the first woman of color to lead a major party ticket. |
| 0:39.8 | She selected Minnesota Governor Tim Walts as her running mate yesterday, introducing him at a rally in Philadelphia. |
| 0:46.5 | If elected, he would be the first practicing Lutheran to serve as vice president. |
| 0:51.3 | Hubert Humphrey was raised Lutheran, but attended a Methodist church. This, after President Joe Biden withdrew from the race closer to the president. Hubert Humphrey was raised Lutheran but attended a Methodist church. |
| 0:54.9 | This, after President Joe Biden withdrew from the race closer to the election than any incumbent |
| 1:00.2 | seeking re-election in U.S. history. The Republican nominee, Donald J. Trump, if successful, |
| 1:06.3 | would be only the second president to be elected, defeated for re-election, and then re-elected, |
| 1:13.1 | Grover Cleveland was the first. |
| 1:15.4 | Trump's running mate, J.D. Vance, is the first millennial on a major party ticket. |
| 1:20.3 | And the list goes on. |
| 1:21.6 | While the candidates are unprecedented in many ways, many of the challenges the winners will face are unprecedented as well. |
| 1:29.3 | Israel has not faced an existential threat like the present conflict since its founding in 1948. |
| 1:35.8 | Iran, considered by Congress, to be the largest terrorist network in the world today, |
| 1:41.0 | is threatening to attack Israel directly and is using its proxies in the region |
| 1:45.0 | to mount a sustained, multi-pronged offensive against the Jewish states. U.S. military assets |
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