Now that he has been chosen as Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, many are wondering what sort of campaigner Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will be.
Based on an interview he gave to Elena Schneider of Politico, Walz is the perfect person to take on failed former president Donald Trump and his MAGA surrogates.
Asked about today’s Republican Party as led by Trump and his VP pick, Sen. J.D. Vance, Walz noted, “These guys are weird,” he said. “Once they start running, their weirdness shows up, and especially with the nominee on the other side.”
Walz added:
“This is going to be a binary choice. Democracy, or what we saw with the former president. Projects, like roads getting built, or dysfunction. Pre-existing conditions being covered by health care, or having that ripped out. Those binary choices will start to become clear. They saw us act, how we acted during Covid, they saw us act on the recovery. It’ll work itself out.”
On the biggest issue of the 2024 election, personal freedom, Walz has this to say, “There’s one golden rule in a small town, (for) those of you aren’t from a small town. Mind your own damn business. We don’t need ‘em. I don’t know who’s asking for this crazy stuff that they’re pushing. Who’s asking to ban birth control? Who’s asking to raise the price of insulin?”
He has also urged Democrats to be proud of their political roots and the labels that come with them from the opposition:
“Don’t ever shy away from our progressive values. One person’s socialism is another person’s neighborliness.”
There’s nothing weird about that, which is a hell of a lot more than you can say for Trump, Vance, and the vast majority of today’s GOP.
