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What Next - Why It Had to Be Walz

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

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Daily News, News, News Commentary

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🗓️ 7 August 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

How Minnesota Governor Tim Walz slipped past VP-favorite Josh Shapiro and joined Kamala Harris on the Democratic ticket.


Guest: Guest: David Faris, associate professor of political science at Roosevelt University and author of The Kids Are All Left and It’s Time to Fight Dirty.



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0:00.0

Three weeks ago, most Democrats had never heard of Tim Walls.

0:13.7

Walls is the governor of Minnesota, a veteran, a former teacher, and back in July he was a

0:21.1

guest on MSNBC. That angst that J.D. Vance talks about in He'll Billy Elegy.

0:27.0

None of my Hillbilly cousins went to Yale and none of them went on to be a venture capitalist or whatever.

0:35.8

He was talking about JD Vance, making the point that Vance, for all his talk about

0:41.0

his rural background, had a pension for policies that wrecked

0:44.8

rural America and divided everyone else. We do not like what has happened where

0:50.4

we can't even go to Thanksgiving dinner with our uncle because you end up in

0:54.1

some weird fight that is unnecessary and I think bringing back people together.

0:59.2

Well it's true these guys are just weird and it is you know they're running for he man women haters club or something that's what they go

1:06.4

at that's not what people are interested in this term weird it spread like

1:11.6

wildfire among Democrats.

1:14.0

I guess what I would most want to see in that debate, whoever is at the table with him, is getting

1:19.0

into that relationship between a strange worldview and a strange set of policies.

1:25.0

It's one to go after them and show their falsities and craziness

1:31.0

when they do these nutty things that they're doing these weird things

1:34.4

that they're doing but at the same time even Joe Manchin a man who left the

1:39.8

Dembs got in on the action about the childless cat lady comment.

1:44.0

I never heard of that.

1:45.0

That was a weird comment I've never heard before.

1:47.0

He basically was criticizing women who, political leaders who don't have kids.

1:52.0

I just never heard the comment the way it was, it's just a... who are political leaders who don't have care.

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