Swamp Notes: Another brick in the (blue) Walz
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
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🗓️ 10 August 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Kamala Harris has supercharged Democratic party voters’ enthusiasm in the weeks since President Joe Biden stepped down as the nominee. Can Tim Walz, a little-known Midwestern governor with an everyman appeal and a progressive agenda, help maintain that excitement as her vice-presidential pick? The FT’s global business columnist, Rana Foroohar, and Washington bureau chief, James Politi, join this week’s Swamp Notes to discuss what Walz adds to the ticket.
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| 0:00.0 | The UK's energy partner. |
| 0:06.2 | Learn more at equinore. |
| 0:08.2 | Equinore. |
| 0:09.2 | UK. |
| 0:09.8 | The Democratic Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has helped turn a winless high school |
| 0:17.2 | football team into a perennial state champion and he flipped a Ruby Red |
| 0:21.6 | Republican congressional seat back in 2006. |
| 0:25.0 | So it's safe to say, he knows a thing or two about winning. |
| 0:29.0 | This is |
| 0:33.3 | Swamp Notes the weekly podcast from the F.T. news briefing where we talk about all the things happening in the |
| 0:38.4 | 24 US presidential election. I'm Mark Filipino and this week we're asking is Tim Wall's the right VP pick for |
| 0:45.4 | Kamala Harris? Here with me to discuss as Rana Faruhar, she's the F.T's global |
| 0:50.1 | business columnist and associate editor, she also writes our Swamp Notes newsletter. |
| 0:54.3 | Hi Rana. Hey, how are you? I'm doing well and we've also got James |
| 0:57.8 | Plety. He's the FT's Washington Bureau Chief. Hi James. |
| 1:00.7 | I'm Mark. All right so Rana let me start by speaking for millions of Americans |
| 1:06.2 | and probably billions around the world when I ask who the hell is Tim Wall's and how did he |
| 1:12.3 | find himself on the Democratic Party ticket? |
| 1:15.0 | Before I say who Tim Walz, just as a girl from Indiana, you know, midwesterners, we don't like |
| 1:20.0 | to talk about ourselves so much. |
| 1:22.0 | No, this guy's a guy. to talk about ourselves so much. This guy has got his head down. He's been doing his job as the |
| 1:26.6 | governor of Minnesota and he's just the perfect, in my view, the perfect person for this moment. |
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