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Minnesota Sen. Klobuchar says Tim Walz brings 'Midwestern common sense' to politics

PBS News Hour - Segments

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Before the Democratic National Convention holds a ceremonial vote to show its support for Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as the party's vice presidential nominee, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., will deliver a tribute to her governor. Amna Nawaz speaks with Klobuchar for more. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

Well, later tonight before the convention holds a ceremonial vote to show its

0:04.6

support for walls as the party's vice presidential nominee, Minnesota Senator

0:08.9

Amy Klobishar will deliver a tribute to her governor Governor, the senator joins us now.

0:13.2

Great to see you.

0:13.9

Well, great to be on again, thank you.

0:15.6

So you have known Governor Tim Wall's

0:17.3

for a very long time.

0:18.6

You're going to be speaking about him

0:19.8

to nominate him for that VP slot tonight.

0:22.1

Who is the Tim Wall's that many Americans say they don't know much about yet?

0:26.7

Tim Walls is the dad that I think everyone knows when you've seen the video this week of his kids, not knowing they would be caught

0:35.3

on camera doing rabbit ears behind their dad as he was going to be nominated for the vice presidency.

0:44.0

He is the soldier who served for 24 years.

0:47.6

He is the teacher, and you're going to hear from kids

0:50.5

that he taught whose lives he changed.

0:52.8

He took a 0 and 27 football team out of Mancato, Minnesota,

0:57.9

by the way, the town my husband grew up in

1:00.6

and turned it into a state champion. And then he ran for Congress in a red

1:04.2

district that only two Democrats held in a hundred years. So this is a guy when I

1:09.8

think about Michelle Obama's words last night where she talked about you know,

1:13.5

not everyone gets generational wealth.

1:15.5

Not everyone is graced by that or can go bankrupt over and over again.

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