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Laura Coates Live

Trump Campaign Races To Define Walz As A “Radical Liberal”

Laura Coates Live

CNN

News

3.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump’s campaign is already setting out to define Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as someone who will move the Democratic presidential ticket to the left – with a key focus on his record, senior Trump campaign advisers and people close to the former president told CNN. Trumps advisers say that while they will pull on details from his 12 years in Congress, their goal is to paint Walz — a former teacher and Army National Guard veteran — as someone who has been in lockstep with progressives over the last four years and a key champion of the Biden administration’s policies.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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We are the underdogs. That's the vice president Kamala Harris told Governor Tim

0:11.9

Walks this morning when she phoned him to

0:14.4

offer him the job of her running mate. Harris knew exactly what she was doing

0:18.8

when she used those words. No one had her name at the top of the ticket maybe a month ago.

0:24.0

No one had his name on the ticket at all, perhaps even two weeks ago.

0:28.0

And with about 90 days ago, they've got to prove their name should have always been there in the first place.

0:34.3

Now leave it to Vegas to decide whether the odds are against them are in their favor.

0:38.8

But I'll tell you, Harris is now betting that Coach Wals, as she called him tonight can help her run a

0:44.0

political offense that can somehow pierce Trump's coalition and went over some of

0:48.4

those critical voters come November. Much easier said than done, but tonight in Philadelphia, she began the work of

0:56.0

introducing Wall's to America for those who don't know who he is. She praised his

1:01.5

24 years, the National Guard. His time is a high school

1:04.9

social studies teacher, his 12 years in Congress. Don't forget and of course his

1:09.8

time as governor of my home state, Minnesota.

1:14.8

He has been a model chief executive and with his experience, I'm telling you, Tim Walz will be ready on day one.

1:24.0

Now don't forget, this is not just about a resume.

1:28.5

I mean, he looks good on paper, just doesn't cut it in any context, right?

1:32.7

Sources tell us the end that Harris and Walls actually hit it off

1:35.6

during the vetting process.

1:37.0

They had political chemistry.

1:38.9

And perhaps most importantly,

1:40.8

walls told the vetting team he had zero ambition to become president.

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