Vice President Harris chooses Tim Walz as running mate.
Walz, the governor of Minnesota, is a former high school teacher, Army officer and member of the U.S. House.
haha, okay, he's the guy that came up with the "just weird" label for trrmp and vance, that's a strong enough starting endorsement for me
EDIT: I don't know why my particular lemmy instance is displaying this image so large, but if you're also affected by the largeness of this image, I deeply apologize.
Jesus. Is this quote for real? That’s some good shit.
Yep. I was watching the stream when he said this. It was full of some awesome speakers, though I wish more of them had prepared what they were going to say instead of just vamping at the last minute. You can watch the whole thing, or outtakes at the channel: https://www.youtube.com/@WhiteDudesForHarris
Here's Gov Walz's clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3NIwzVwgQ8
Appears a normal size 2 me 🫡
What is this, an image made for giant ants?
It's displaying large because it is large; nearly 720p in video terms. For text, copying & pasting would work better.
Now I'm sad that we'll never get a "no, and fuck you" letter from Walz to Virginia because they asked for their traitor rag back again..
I should call up his staffers, as a concerned Minnesotan, and ask if he's written a statement already and encourage them to 'leak' it.
Will Fox News refer him as a DEI hire? probably not
VP picks are usually diversity hires. They're chosen specifically for who they are (and who they can appeal to) rather than anything they can actually do. How many times has a presidential candidate from the North east chosen a running mate from the south to appeal to southern voters? It's basically a tradition. The thing that makes it racist is to only notice when non-white people are involved.
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No no no he’ll be the puppet master pulling the strings from behind the scenes
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Aren't they currently saying this about Harris during the Biden Presidency? Of course while claiming she's dumb and not qualified.
That would be an even more horrendous accusation if he were Jewish.
I'm actually just checking to see whether he has any Jewish ancestry for RW conspiracy nuts to bring up, just in case.
Nah, they'll just talk about his old rocks and cows quote, or how he's making sure children are fed in schools.
Aw, I wanted the astronaut.
He may not have gone to space, but Tim has been an awesome governor here in Minnesota, I look forward to seeing what he brings to the campaign.
Amen friend, all through the early pandemic days and afterwards I've been damned proud of what Walz brings to the table. He's been a good governor -- I guess we have to share now.
The seat is too valuable to give up an incumbency advantage, particularly so given Kelly's high approval rating in state.
I knew this intellectually, but in my heart of hearts was hoping for Kelly anyway because having a former astronaut for a president would be freaking awesome. That being said I'm not even a little upset with Walz and I'm 100% here for Walz and Harris both.
Wholeheartedly agree but in the end whatever gets the weird cheeto out of the way works for me!
There was a story a day or two ago that it had been narrowed to Walz or Shapiro. Between those two, I'm pleasantly surprised.
Same. I'm delighted to be wrong. I thought for sure she was gonna pick Shapiro just to show progressives who's boss.
I wanted the gay dude who makes Fox News his bitch.
Still pretty fucking hyped to vote, either way.
He's one of my favorites too. If he keeps a clean record, I could see him being a great candidate one day down the road.
I wonder if he needed more time with his wife. She's the former congresswoman who was shot, right? I just thought that that might have factored into it.
I think it was too risky to give up his Senate seat. His seat is too purple, it could easily go to a Republican in a special election.
Kelly didn't have enough government experience, only 2 years. I'm not sure he was ever taken as a final contender.
Tbf, we have enough fucking space cadets in politics. Could use some more down to earth candidates.
I'll say the same thing I said in the other post. He's a solid Mid-Western guy; reasonable and practical. He’s a fine choice and I like him.
Fellow progressives, can I get a HELL YEAH?
Good move from Harris.
Purely strategically, it is an absolutely braindead move to not pick Shapiro. 538 has done a lot of work recently showing the likelihood that whoever wins PA will almost certainly win the election. So why would she decline to select the PA candidate with 60+% approval in that state?
You can bet they have their polling data that says otherwise. Shapiro was a deeply controversial pick who could have killed a lot of the enthusiasm, and he only helps in one individual swing state. Waltz Walz has broad demographic appeal, so they presumably weighed up both and decided that he was the better bet.
Politics and old white men, name a better combination
It is obviously a cycle we need to break. That said, a campaign has to make choices that lead to victory. Kamala is already a person of color and a woman. If she wins, it would be only the second time to have a non-white President and the first woman.
The fact is that while many us are hungry for change to the old norms, many will be more conservative to change (and I don't mean in the crazy MAGA way). Having an old white guy on the ticket acts as an anchor for those who are too scared to fully jump into all out change, ensuring that those votes aren't lost to the other side.
Having an old white guy
He was born 4 months before Kamala Harris, if he is "old" then so is she. Are you saying that Kamala is old?
As for a "white guy", well, the majority of the United States is white and roughly half of it is male. If race and gender matter for representation, as you seem to be claiming, then it's entirely reasonable for one of the two positions to be a white male while the other is a PoC female.
Almost a third of the U.S. population is white and male. In a representative democracy, it's only reasonable to expect that population to often make up a plurality of all office holders.
True that, makes sense.