Harris selects Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as running mate, aiming to add Midwest muscle to ticket

[CdnFox]

Harris selects Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as running mate, aiming to add Midwest muscle to ticket (msn.com)

Vice President Kamala Harris picked Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to be her running mate on Tuesday, according to three people familiar with her decision, after a breakneck selection process that began barely two weeks ago when she suddenly became the likely nominee.

Harris’ campaign planned to make the formal announcement via video message before the pair heads to an evening rally in Philadelphia.

 

 I think that's a fumble for her.  Minnesota isn't really a swing state. The main goals of a vp running mate is to deliver a state that might otherwise be hard to win and to send a message to potential party supporters who might not have chosen you as leader.  A moderate vp offsets a radical pres, an activist vp beefs up a more centrist pres, etc. 

So while republicans could in theory take minnesota, it's been a dem bastion for a long time.  And while this guy is a nice enough guy and respected in minnesota he's not really "known" for being centrist or any different than her.  

I don't think trump made a perfect choice either but i think he probably made a better choice than she did. This guy is just unflavored jello - he's there but he's not going to interest anyone. 

 

[Deluge]

10 minutes ago, CdnFox said:

Harris selects Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as running mate, aiming to add Midwest muscle to ticket (msn.com)

Vice President Kamala Harris picked Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to be her running mate on Tuesday, according to three people familiar with her decision, after a breakneck selection process that began barely two weeks ago when she suddenly became the likely nominee.

Harris’ campaign planned to make the formal announcement via video message before the pair heads to an evening rally in Philadelphia.

 

 I think that's a fumble for her.  Minnesota isn't really a swing state. The main goals of a vp running mate is to deliver a state that might otherwise be hard to win and to send a message to potential party supporters who might not have chosen you as leader.  A moderate vp offsets a radical pres, an activist vp beefs up a more centrist pres, etc. 

So while republicans could in theory take minnesota, it's been a dem bastion for a long time.  And while this guy is a nice enough guy and respected in minnesota he's not really "known" for being centrist or any different than her.  

I don't think trump made a perfect choice either but i think he probably made a better choice than she did. This guy is just unflavored jello - he's there but he's not going to interest anyone. 

 

I've been curious to know which loser would take a back seat to Kackla. What a cuck, lol. 

Edited August 6, 2024 by Deluge

[Rebound]

Walz is an outstanding choice.  He’s an everyday guy who’s championed and supported working class families his entire life.  He don’t build a bunch of luxury hotels or become an investment banker… he became a schoolteacher and athletic coach.  
 

The American voter is going to realize the truth: That a billionaire real estate developers and an investment banker are not the champions of the middle class… a school teacher is.  Walz isn’t a pretend hillbilly who went to Yale. He’s a person who’s proven that he genuinely cares about people.  

[CdnFox]

27 minutes ago, Deluge said:

I've been curious to know which loser would take a back seat to Kackla. What a cuck, lol. 

It is a bit of a kamala-kaze mission  

I guess he figured it couldn't HURT his career and in his case that's probably true enough. Even if she crashes and burns he'll be fine. 

But it does suggest that others who would have been better choices were a little bit more leery of hitching their name to her. 

[Fluffypants]

5 minutes ago, Rebound said:

Walz is an outstanding choice.  He’s an everyday guy who’s championed and supported working class families his entire life.  He don’t build a bunch of luxury hotels or become an investment banker… he became a schoolteacher and athletic coach.  
 

The American voter is going to realize the truth: That a billionaire real estate developers and an investment banker are not the champions of the middle class… a school teacher is.  Walz isn’t a pretend hillbilly who went to Yale. He’s a person who’s proven that he genuinely cares about people.  

How isn't Vance a real hillbilly? He grew up dirt poor in Appalachia with a drug addicted mother, this wasn't some fake background. He is the very epitome of pulling yourself out of poverty and making something out of yourself and going to Yale doesn't make your upbringing any different.

[Fluffypants]

1 hour ago, Rebound said:

Walz is an outstanding choice.  He’s an everyday guy who’s championed and supported working class families his entire life.  He don’t build a bunch of luxury hotels or become an investment banker… he became a schoolteacher and athletic coach.  
 

The American voter is going to realize the truth: That a billionaire real estate developers and an investment banker are not the champions of the middle class… a school teacher is.  Walz isn’t a pretend hillbilly who went to Yale. He’s a person who’s proven that he genuinely cares about people.  

No he isn't he is a far left liberal who screwed up and did nothing during the George Floyd riots, made Minnesota a sanctuary state for both illegal migrants and for trans kids so they can get the surgeries against their parents wishes.

 

[Rebound]

4 minutes ago, Fluffypants said:

How isn't Vance a real hillbilly? He grew up dirt poor in Appalachia with a drug addicted mother, this wasn't some fake background. He is the very epitome of pulling yourself out of poverty and making something out of yourself and going to Yale doesn't make your upbringing any different.

Vance grew up in suburbia. He’s a phony a-hole like Trump.  

[Rebound]

6 minutes ago, Fluffypants said:

No he isn't he is a far left liberal who screwed up and did nothing during the George Floyd riots, made Minnesota a sanctuary state for both illegal migrants and for trans kids so they can get the surgeries against their parents wishes.

 

Tim Walz

 

[Fluffypants]

Just now, Rebound said:

Tim Walz

 

The guy playing soldier in the National Guard vs a Marine who was deployed to Iraq. Vance knows what a battlefield is like and Walz knows how hard it was to spend a weekend camping.

[Black Dog]

4 minutes ago, Fluffypants said:

The guy playing soldier in the National Guard vs a Marine who was deployed to Iraq. Vance knows what a battlefield is like and Walz knows how hard it was to spend a weekend camping.

LOL Vance spent all of six months in Iraq snapping pictures and writing articles for the newspaper, he's a LARPer.

[Nationalist]

4 minutes ago, Black Dog said:

LOL Vance spent all of six months in Iraq snapping pictures and writing articles for the newspaper, he's a LARPer.

He went. Walz did not.

I know nothing about the guy and think that's the point. Kamala could never stand a vp who has any spotlight at all. She wants "unflavored Jell-o".

Edited August 6, 2024 by Nationalist

[impartialobserver]

Walz seems like a safe choice. I still think that Harris loses but maybe by slightly less than before. 

[CdnFox]

1 hour ago, Rebound said:

Tim Walz

 

You know he had a 'rat on your neighbour' phone line during covid right?

[CdnFox]

44 minutes ago, impartialobserver said:

Walz seems like a safe choice. I still think that Harris loses but maybe by slightly less than before. 

He might be a neutral choice if that's what you mean but that is the last thing she needed. She needed to make a choice that would give her a swing state or at least a shot at a swing state. I don't think this does that.

If the president candidate is really popular and doing well then you go for a neutral vice president candidate for stability. But she is not winning, she is not terribly popular or even well-known and she absolutely could not afford to go with vanilla. I think she loses just as bad as she would have before.

[WestCanMan]

Minnesotans: "Let's elect the California senator who pimped a bail fund to get rioters back on the streets of Minneapolis, along with governor who just let the state burn without lifting a finger."

[Rebound]

1 hour ago, Fluffypants said:

The guy playing soldier in the National Guard vs a Marine who was deployed to Iraq. Vance knows what a battlefield is like and Walz knows how hard it was to spend a weekend camping.

Vance was deployed to Iraq… as a reporter.  Zero combat.  

[Rebound]

1 hour ago, Fluffypants said:

No he isn't he is a far left liberal who screwed up and did nothing during the George Floyd riots, made Minnesota a sanctuary state for both illegal migrants and for trans kids so they can get the surgeries against their parents wishes.

 

Oh? What did JD Vance do during the George Floyd riots?

[Fluffypants]

1 minute ago, Rebound said:

Oh? What did JD Vance do during the George Floyd riots?

He wasn't the governor of the state wtf was he supposed to do about them?

That is like asking why didn't Vance do anything about Polio

Edited August 6, 2024 by Fluffypants

[Legato]

3 hours ago, Rebound said:

Walz is an outstanding choice.  He’s an everyday guy who’s championed and supported working class families his entire life.  He don’t build a bunch of luxury hotels or become an investment banker… he became a schoolteacher and athletic coach.  
 

The American voter is going to realize the truth: That a billionaire real estate developers and an investment banker are not the champions of the middle class… a school teacher is.  Walz isn’t a pretend hillbilly who went to Yale. He’s a person who’s proven that he genuinely cares about people.  

That's the guy who put tampons in mens washrooms lol.

[Rebound]

 

1 hour ago, Nationalist said:

He went. Walz did not.

I know nothing about the guy and think that's the point. Kamala could never stand a vp who has any spotlight at all. She wants "unflavored Jell-o".

Walz served for 24 years. Oh, and one other thing, loser. We’re just getting started! 

Edited August 6, 2024 by Rebound

[ironstone]

3 hours ago, Rebound said:

Walz is an outstanding choice.  He’s an everyday guy who’s championed and supported working class families his entire life.  He don’t build a bunch of luxury hotels or become an investment banker… he became a schoolteacher and athletic coach.  
 

The American voter is going to realize the truth: That a billionaire real estate developers and an investment banker are not the champions of the middle class… a school teacher is.  Walz isn’t a pretend hillbilly who went to Yale. He’s a person who’s proven that he genuinely cares about people.  

Is he as good as Harris is at 'code-switching'?

[WestCanMan]

47 minutes ago, Rebound said:

Oh? What did JD Vance do during the George Floyd riots?

He certainly did have his AG hide bodycam footage of Floyd's arrest to keep the riots going, like Walz did. 

[WestCanMan]

27 minutes ago, Rebound said:

 

Walz served for 24 years. Oh, and one other thing, loser. We’re just getting started! 

 

Do you even understand what that poll shows?

Trump was behind in national polling, but ahead in the swing states, before Aug 6th, meaning that he'd probably lose the popular vote but still win the election.

Now he's tied for the popular vote, so his lead in the swing states is growing.

It's pretty crazy when you consider that the entire mainscum media works for the Demonrats. He's basically swimming uphill. 

[impartialobserver]

45 minutes ago, WestCanMan said:

He certainly did have his AG hide bodycam footage of Floyd's arrest to keep the riots going, like Walz did. 

did you mean  to say, "he certainly did NOT have"

[impartialobserver]

2 hours ago, CdnFox said:

He might be a neutral choice if that's what you mean but that is the last thing she needed. She needed to make a choice that would give her a swing state or at least a shot at a swing state. I don't think this does that.

If the president candidate is really popular and doing well then you go for a neutral vice president candidate for stability. But she is not winning, she is not terribly popular or even well-known and she absolutely could not afford to go with vanilla. I think she loses just as bad as she would have before.

Does it really matter if she loses by 100 Electoral votes vs. 96 Electoral Votes. Either way, she loses and in such a way to quell most reasonable debate.