Kamala Harris Selects Tim Walz as Her Running Mate

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🗓️ 6 August 2024

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Vice President Kamala Harris chose Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate for the 2024 presidential election. Walz is a former school teacher and veteran of the Army National Guard. Under his leadership as Governor, Minnesota enshrined access to abortion in the state constitution, expanded universal meals in school, legalized marijuana, and enacted gun control measures. Walz has been criticized by Republicans for his hesitation to deploy the National Guard to Minneapolis in 2020, in response to protests following the killing of George Floyd. His labeling of Republicans as “weird” has also gone viral in recent weeks. We’ll talk about the newly-minted Harris-Walz ticket and analyze what it signals for the presumptive Democratic nominees. We’ll also discuss the challenges Harris and Walz could face ahead of November, as they embark on a whirlwind campaign across battleground states today. Guests: Christopher Cadelago, California’s Bureau Chief, Politico - and former White House Correspondent Erica L. Green, White House correspondent, The New York Times Yasmeen Abutaleb, White House Reporter, The Washington Post Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:01.0	From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Scott Schaefer in for Mina Kim. Coming up on forum, after a weekend of candidate interviews, Vice President Kamala Harris has chosen Minnesota Governor Tim Walls to be her running mate.
1:09.0	The second term governor and former high school
1:11.8	teacher was a dark horse candidate, rising to the top as someone who can speak plainly to middle
1:16.8	class voters in part by framing the Trump Vance ticket as weird. Harrison Walls will hold their first
1:22.9	joint rally tonight in Philadelphia before embarking on a tour of swing states to introduce the ticket
1:28.1	to voters in places that will likely decide the election. We'll analyze the choice, what Walls
1:33.0	brings to the ticket, and his potential liabilities too. That's next after this news.
1:42.9	This is Forum. I'm Scott Schaefer and for Mina Kim. Kamala Harris and her new running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, will hold a rally tonight in Philadelphia, kicking off a tour of swing states with stops including Raleigh, North Carolina, Detroit, Las Vegas, and Phoenix.
1:59.6	Walls spent more than two decades as a schoolteacher and football coach before running for Congress in 2006, knocking off a Republican incumbent in a rural, somewhat conservative district. He's now in his second term as governor, but relatively unknown to most Americans. In a written statement, the Trump campaign called
2:17.5	Walls, quote, a West Coast wannabe who is obsessed with spreading California's dangerously
2:23.2	liberal agenda far and wide. Well, with the Democratic ticket now set, we turn to three
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