meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
On Point | Podcast

Midwestern identity on the 2024 campaign trail

On Point | Podcast

WBUR

Talk Show, Daily News, News, Npr, On Point, Daily

4.23.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

VP candidates JD Vance and Tim Walz hail from Midwestern states. Both use that identity to try and appeal to voters. Who will Midwesterners decide has it right?

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Support for this podcast comes from Math Works, a company accelerating the pace of engineering and science.

0:06.4

Stick around until the end of this episode for a special segment about how one company is using Mathworks Software

0:12.8

to revolutionize outer space navigation.

0:15.8

This is on point.

0:16.8

I'm T. Siana Deering in for Magnichak Rabardi.

0:19.9

Minnesota Governor Tim Walls is on the stage tonight at the Democratic National Convention

0:24.6

to accept his party's nomination for Vice President.

0:28.2

Coach Wals, as speakers have been calling him this week, will reportedly be flanked by former students and athletes from the town of

0:35.2

Manquito where he taught and coached football for a decade. The Dems are leaning into

0:39.6

Wals's Midwest background hard as a core part of their campaign strategy.

0:45.0

When fourth generation farmer at Les Danielson took the stage at a rally in O'Claire,

0:49.1

Wisconsin earlier this month, he described his as a Wisconsin story.

0:54.0

My wife Deborah and I purchased 700 acres of our own land and now grow 500 acres of corn,

0:59.3

soybeans and some hay.

1:01.0

We built her grain set up and milk a small herd of cows.

1:04.5

Danielson spoke about his family's history and land stewardship and he spoke about his

1:09.5

support of Tim Wall's. And that's why I'm glad and excited that Vice President Harris's running mate is a lifelong

1:17.8

Midwesterner.

1:18.8

Walls then took the stage to the music of blue-collar icon Bruce Springsteen.

1:23.2

Thank you for articulating what we know it means to live out here in the Midwest.

1:28.9

Care for your neighbors.

1:31.1

Kindness.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from WBUR, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of WBUR and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.