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A single question is rippling across America on Tuesday morning: Tim Who?”
Word was leaked just after 9:00 a.m. that vice president Kamala Harris – the newly minted Democratic presidential nominee – has selected Minnesota governor Tim Walz as her running mate. She’s scheduled to make it official during a campaign rally in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania this evening.
Walz is hardly a household name. In fact, he’s little known outside Democratic circles – and beyond the lines of the Gopher State.
So, just who is Walz, and what does he bring to the Democratic ticket?
The 60-year-old, two-term governor is in many ways a counterbalance to Californian Harris. Born and raised in rural Minnesota, his father died of lung cancer when Walz was in high school. He earned an undergrad degree in social science and then a master’s in educational leadership. Walz worked in farming, manufacturing and education, teaching geography and coaching high school football.
He married a fellow teacher and has two children.
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Walz also found time to serve in the Minnesota National Guard, however he never saw combat during his 24 years in uniform.
Walz was elected to Congress on Minnesota’s Democratic-Farm-Labor ticket in a district that had previously chosen Republicans and served in Washington for the next 12 years. In 2018 he was elected governor of Minnesota and currently chairs the Democratic Governors Association.
A populist who strongly supported Joe Biden – but immediately switched to Harris when the incumbent president dropped out of the race last month – he is typical of Minnesota’s liberal tradition. (This is the state that gave America Walter Mondale and Hubert Humphrey, after all).
“By picking Tim Walz as her running mate, Kamala Harris not only bent the knee to the radical left, she doubled down on her dangerously liberal, weak, and failed agenda,” a statement from the campaign of former U.S. president Donald Trump noted. “Walz would be a rubberstamp for Kamala to wage war on American energy, continue aiding and abetting an invasion on our border, and embolden our adversaries as the world is brought to the brink of World War III.”
Will Walz’s far left political positions do anything to lure independent votes in critical swing states to Harris’ banner?
This news site will have more on the impact of, and reaction to, Walz’s selection in this week’s Palmetto Political Stock Index.
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19 comments
Not a couch fucker!
What kind of eyeliner does Waltz use?
“Walz also found time to serve in the Minnesota National Guard, however he never saw combat during his 24 years in uniform.”
Pathetic attempt to diminish his service.
“Will Walz’s far left political positions do anything to lure independent votes in critical swing states to Harris’ banner?”
Walz is the embodiment of small town America that more people can relate to than JD “Mandel” and his crypto bro cronies who put him there.
Ha!!! Nanker you obviously don’t know anyone from rural Minnesota. Rural Minnesota is all Republican. The only Democratic counties are around Minneapolis and the union held Iron Range in the northeast. The rest of the state is solid red.
Farmers hate him… because according to Waltz rural MN is nothing but rocks and cows.
Walz seems to be a great person with great communication skills.
The hyperbolic attacks on him from Republicans are coming off as weird and desperate.
His speech at the rally in Philly yesterday very impressive.
When his National Guard unit was notified they would be activated to Iraq, he quit, was demoted a rank because he didn’t fulfill the commitment he signed and went home leaving the unit without a senior enlisted leader. He said he “retired” because he wasn’t able to run for Congress while serving in the military. But he didn’t tell people about the waiver he could have received for doing so. Minnesota’s $20 billion surplus was burned through under his leadership.
I’ve been through Minnesota recently and seen the “Fuck Waltz” yard signs. Outside of Minneapolis/New Somalia and Duluth people hate the man.
This Waltz guy sounds bad!
Imagine if multiple juries had found him guilty of sexual assault, massive financial fraud and breaking campaign finance laws? Or if he had been impeached twice or if he constantly sucked up to dictators and our enemies?
Instead this Waltz guy did some stuff that wasn’t illegal and hurt no one but it’s really bad.
Republicans sure are weird.
DonOLD is complaining that Walz allows convicted felons to vote. A rather strange complaint coming from a 34-time convicted felon.
Weirder than putting tampons in men’s rooms?
Not as weird as wearing a maxi-pad on the place your ear got scratched on live TV, like Trump.
You’re so right, weirdo.
Waltz should have complete run away from serving by claiming he had ‘none spurs’.
Then Waltz would be A-OK with you.
Please tell us about DonOLD’s military service. Did he serve with distinction?
I understand that the real truth concerning Trump’s pick of Vance as his Vice Presidential running mate has just been revealed: Dan Quayle, Sarah Palin, and David Duke all turned him down.
There’s so many liberal nut jobs in the comments today.
Wait till you see how many liberal nut-jobs turn out on Election Day, weirdo ;-)
What we have here is nothing more than old fashioned Communism. Tampon Tim defund the police and watch America burn. Sorry ass Coward!
lol
Wait till you hear about this JD Vance guy! When he’s isn’t busy putting on his eyeliner while search for dolphin on woman porn on his laptop, he’s fucking couches.
That’s just the VP pick….that Trump guy takes being a coward to new levels of sadness.
I’m sorry you were saying something about Walz..,,
Tampon Tim will fit right in with Pot Hole Pete and both can fuck each other!
No weirdness to see here.
Just normal thoughts from a normal trumptard.