Hello everyone and welcome to the focus group podcast I'm Sarah

Longwell publisher of the bull work and this week we're going to do something just a little bit different.

One we just got a new VP pick so we want to talk about that but also I'm going on vacation. And so what we're going to do this week is give you some

quick reactions from our focus groups to the selection of Tim Walz. Now I'm not going to lie if you've been listening to this show. I obviously

thought the choice should have been Josh Shapiro. Swing voters, Pennsylvania voters, they were into

him. Pennsylvania is a must-win state, but as I am fond of saying,

can't roll up your sleeves while you're ringing your hands.

So I'm gonna get over it, I guess.

And we're gonna go into this last three months with the ticket we have, not the one we wish we had,

and already it's a much improved ticket.

So this week, I'm going to bring you guys some of the raw audio we've heard about the state of the race since the

walls pick because I'll tell you I was sitting there thinking how are we going to do

an episode about this pick because nobody knows who this guy is.

Although, they will pretty soon because Republicans are going to spend a lot of money to define

him as a radical progressive. But you know I'm pretty interested since I don't know that much about him.

I know that he's got a long record because he was in Congress for many years.

And that gives you a lot to shoot at.

It means he's taken a lot of votes.

He's also a two-term governor.

He's had some big things happen

over the course of the time he's been running the state, things like the

the pandemic, things like the pandemic, things like the Black Life Matter protests,

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