Tim Walz VP Pick Highlights Support for His Progressive Stances
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Published 2024-08-07
We look at the record and response to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz’s selection as Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris’s new running mate. Walz is a former public school teacher and high school football coach who served 24 years in the National Guard and was elected governor in Minnesota in 2019 after six terms in Congress. After starting out as a more centrist politician, Walz began a “surprising” shift toward more progressive policies, particularly in the post-Trump years, says Jacobin staff writer Branko Marcetic. His governing record includes codifying abortion rights in Minnesota, investments in education and child care, an “A” rating from the NRA that eventually fell to an “F,” and passing additional police funding after the 2020 George Floyd protests. Walz’s progressivism has major “limitations,” Marcetic explains, and it remains to be seen if he and Harris can turn their feel-good rhetoric into “real solutions.” We also examine the choice of Walz over another reported vice-presidential front-runner, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, as well as what his ultimate selection says about a changing Democratic Party.
Transcript: www.democracynow.org/2024/8/7/kamala_harris_tim_wa…
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All Comments (21)
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So....Tim Walz is NOT a moderate as the MSM has been demanding that we believe?
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The height of irony that this channel calls itself "Democracy Now". In reality they want power and control.
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More tax and spend socialism 😂😂😂
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NO POLICIES ON HARRIS WEBSITE
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Almost nothing he just said is supported by any real data
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Mr Walz is going to be the delight of SNL's screenwriters.
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He should be disqualified for stolen valor and being anti American
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Im a black man who grew up around white men like Tim Walz
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Hell throw parents in jail if they don't let the schools help with gender affirming care. That's a fact. He increased taxes in Minnesota 70% another fact. I got plenty more those seem like two big ones regardless of political party.
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When is Kamala gonna speak to the press. No one knows what she stands for
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I hope he won't do for the country what he did for Minneapolis.
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I'm getting whiplash from Democracy Now's toggling between condemning the holocaust of Palestine and shilling for the Democrats who are effectively committing the holocaust of Palestine.
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Stop falling for the false two-party duopoly. Neither side will ever put the best interests of the people above the best interests of their donors.
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Why is it when liberals apply progressive policies things like the economy, street safety, education, American influence etc. all digress?
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“And right up to his time as Governor, he very much pushed back against this idea that China is our adversary that the US cannot have a cooperative relationship with.” I truly hope Walz remains his integrity and courage to say the most obvious yet least popular thing when he becomesp the VP of United States. 🙏
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Relieved she didn’t choose genocide-supporter Shapiro but heard so many people say they wished it was Tim Walz. I didn’t know anything about him but, honestly, now that it is I find him very unimpressive. His whole talk was trashing his opponents. Seems to be all these politicians do these days .Where is the dignity of the office - why don’t they spend their time talking about the issues and their positions on them. For that matter, we still haven’t a clue where Kamala stands. Although I must say if the last four years is any indication, well….
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Tim Walz is a bully. He acts like a bully and uses the language of bullies. Just saying for a friend.
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If only this could translate to actual progressive policies on immigration and gaza
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They're happy to point out that he's in the National Guard for 24 years, but leaving out the most significant facts about that 24 years, that he "retired" and bailed out on his fellow soldiers as soon as they got word they would be going to Iraq, I think that's where the phrase "when the going gets tough, the Socialists go home" came from
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What? Ramaswamy is still in there after being checked by Ann No Culture? Obviously, there is no shame.
