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Teacher, coach and veteran, Tim Walz makes his primetime DNC debut to accept VP nomination

PBS News Hour - Segments

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🗓️ 21 August 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Facing the biggest moment of his political career to date, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will introduce himself to voters during his primetime speech Wednesday night at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Laura Barrón-López joins Geoff Bennett and Amna Nawaz to discuss what to expect. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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facing what's expected to be the biggest moment of his political career today

0:04.5

Governor Walls will be able to introduce himself to much more than just the

0:08.8

party faithful during his prime time speech tonight.

0:11.6

Well as you say it is a major moment for Governor Walz tonight.

0:15.2

What can we expect to hear from him?

0:17.6

Governor Walz is going to be introduced by a former student of his, one that he coached

0:22.3

for track, not football, although many of you know that he was a

0:25.1

former football coach and he's expected to talk about his upbringing in small town Nebraska.

0:31.8

And you are also going to be seeing videos throughout the night that

0:35.4

highlight his service in the National Guard as well as his time as a public

0:40.1

school teacher. And we're expected that he is going to be talking a lot about

0:44.4

his middle class working class roots that's been a big theme here this convention

0:48.8

Jeff which we've also heard from a second gentleman Doug Emmahoff last night where he talked

0:54.8

about working at McDonald's when he was in high school. Very similar to the

0:59.4

Vice President working at McDonald's when she was at Howard and that's something that the campaign

1:04.6

has largely leaned into heavily as they try to relate to voters.

1:08.2

Laura we expect another full slate of speakers on the convention stage tonight as well.

1:12.8

Who are some of the folks will hear from?

1:14.9

We're expected to hear from Senators

1:16.7

Corey Booker of New Jersey, Chris Murphy,

1:19.7

as well as Senator Amy Klowichar of Minnesota, as well as the House

1:23.9

leaders, House Minority Leader hakem Jeffries of New York, former Speaker Nancy Pelosi,

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