This is Brian Layers Daily Politics Podcast from WNYC Studios.

It's Tuesday, August 6th.

I'm Kusha Navadar, a host here at WNYC filling in for Brian, who's on vacation this week.

Have you heard that Vice President and Democratic nominee for President Kamala Harris

has chosen her running mate?

It's Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.

As of writing, the Harris campaign has not officially announced this decision,

but all the major news outlets are reporting that she has told her allies, Walls is her choice.

This comes just two weeks after she herself became the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.

It's really an expedited process unlike what we've seen in modern history.

Let's learn some more about Tim Walls now that he may very well become vice president,

potentially for the next four years.

Joining me now to delve into Walls' record, his strengths and weaknesses, and what we're

hearing about Harris's decision-making process is Jonathan Lemire, host of way too early on MSNBC, Political White House Bureau Chief, and the author of The Big Lie, Election Chaos, Political Opportunism, and the State of American Politics after 2020.

Jonathan, hi, thanks for joining us. Welcome back to WNYC. I imagine you're very busy right now.

It has been an unrelenting news cycle and certainly I can see it this morning, but I'm very glad to be here.

We're glad to have you. Start us off with an intro to Tim Walls. We know Governor of Minnesota,

but he was so unknown that he wasn't even included in original shortlist for

vice president. So who is he? How did he rise so high the past couple weeks?

It is a somewhat stunning selection. If you back up, first of all, let's keep in mind,

as you noted in your intro, what a truncated compressed process this has been.

You know, it's only been a few weeks since President Biden announced that he would step

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