Why did Kamala Harris pick Tim Walz as her running mate?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 7 August 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Kamala Harris has finally selected her running mate - Minnesota governor Tim Walz. So can the pair take on Trump and Vance?
And, with the UK military on standby to evacuate British citizens from Lebanon we speak to former British Ambassador to Lebanon, Tom Fletcher.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.4 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.9 | You know it, you feel it. |
| 0:14.4 | These guys are creepy and yes, just weird as hell. |
| 0:17.2 | That's what you see. |
| 0:18.5 | That's what you see. |
| 0:20.7 | That is the foxy, charming, affable, joyful Tim |
| 0:26.1 | Wolves. Kamala Harris's pick to be her vice presidential running mate. And last night in Philadelphia, |
| 0:34.2 | it was like a revivalist rally. The Democratic Party had got its mojo back, |
| 0:41.4 | and there was a sense of exuberance in a packed arena. One commentator has said, |
| 0:48.7 | the Democratic Party has gone from a calamitous episode of Veep to the feel good of Ted Lasso. |
| 0:56.9 | Can it last? |
| 0:58.4 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:03.1 | The Newsagents. |
| 1:05.0 | It's John. |
| 1:05.8 | And it's Lewis in Blackpool. |
| 1:07.2 | And my God, if you want to do a compare and contrast of the Democratic Party from three weeks ago |
| 1:14.1 | and the Democratic Party last night when Kamala Harris introduced Tim Walz, her running mate, |
| 1:21.4 | to this ecstatic audience in Philadelphia. It is chalk and cheese. The Democrats think they are back in the race. |
| 1:31.7 | They think they have taken the fight to Trump. And they think, again, that they can win. |
| 1:37.0 | None of those things was true three weeks ago. Yeah. And you might be sat there wondering, |
| 1:42.4 | well, who the hell is this guy? I've never heard of him. |
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