Nicolle Wallace: To the Window, To the Walz

Impolitic with John Heilemann

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🗓️ 7 August 2024

⏱️ 82 minutes

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John is joined by Nicolle Wallace—host of Deadline: White House on MSNBC, former aide to George W. Bush and John McCain, and author of three bestselling novels (Eighteen Acres, It’s Classified, and Madam President) about life inside the White House—to discuss Kamala Harris’s selection of Tim Walz as her running mate and its potential impact on the election. The two close friends talk about the secrecy and mystery surrounding every veepstakes, the factors driving Harris to pick the relatively unknown Walz over popular Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, and why Wallace says that the aftermath of Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance and his eventual departure from the presidential race was the hardest story she’s ever had to cover as an MSNBC anchor. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:58.0	Nae Plus Ultra politics. And it was a big big day in that realm yesterday when Kamala Harris announced that she
1:06.7	had picked Minnesota Governor and former Congressman Tim Walls to be her running mate.
1:11.4	The announcement came after a weekend when it became clear that Harris's short list was
1:15.0	doubt to just two, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro and Walls.
1:19.4	Shapiro, the choice of many Democratic political insiders, analysts, handicapers, due to his huge
1:25.2	performance skills and his sky-high approval ratings in the Keystone State, which both the
1:29.6	Harris and Trump campaigns see as being as critical in 2024 as Florida was back in 2000
1:36.7	and Ohio was in 2004 which is to say the whole ball of wax in every election the VP selection is shrouded in mystery and secrecy.
1:46.1	Those who don't really know anything are the only ones talking to the press and those who really do know
1:51.7	what's going on aren't talking to anyone. So we will all have to wait until the
1:56.6	2024 campaign books come out and then we'll really know why Harris decided to take a pass on Shapiro and go with
2:04.5	walls instead but all those questions and any doubts that anyone had quickly
2:09.4	melted into the air last night when Harrison Walles took the stage in
2:12.3	Philadelphia a vast crowd
2:15.3	for their first event together as a ticket and Walls stepped up to the plate, squared himself
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