Let’s go he was literally the top choice for progressives and pro-palestine people!
Edit: Some crazy ppl are saying that not picking Shapiro was anti-semetic cuz he is jewish according to the NYT. 🤦 Wait until these dumbasses learn that Harris’ husband is jewish.
“Some of the pushback against Shapiro was perceived by many of his allies to be antisemitic, and based on his Jewish identity more than any positions he had taken on Israel or the war in Gaza.”
This is great, he is politically slightly left leaning (for a democrat), but can absolutely score points with conservative, rural Americans as that's where he comes from and how he talks. He has a clean bill and is just overall a very charming person with great interview game. He's the one who first loudly expressed how "weird" the GOP and Trump are.
With him Minnesota Democrats were able to codify abortion rights into law, increase transgender rights protections, pass a marijuana legalization bill and install new gun safety laws.
“As governor, he’s embraced the idea that it’s really important to invest in people and infrastructure to grow the economy,” Blodgett said. “And to do it in a way that really helps people in the middle and down below. To me, it’s just a huge focus on economic issues that are kitchen table issues that people care about.”
Mainly he's incredibly likeable... this election is going to be the likeable ticket vs the asshole ticket.
Genuine question: can he really get votes from conservatives if his state did all of those things that conservatives are constantly demonizing?
There’s a certain mindset in the upper Midwest in general (mostly in Boomer, Gen X, and less but still present in elder Millennials) where a large portion of our “independents“ are people for whom their centrism isn’t ideological politically, but is more opposed to a single party having all of the control or more open to outsiders like Jesse Ventura. I have seen many of these individuals (I live in MN) and talked to them and their opinions are fairly left leaning, but because there is a fear that they may not even recognize, they will vote cross party on a ticket because they see that is some sort of balance.
I think Walz can still appeal to those individuals.
This is very true, and all you need to look at is Wisconsin 2022. Mandela Barnes (D) narrowly lost the Senate race to Ron Johnson (R), but Tony Evers (D) crushed Tim Michels (R) for governor. Given the numbers, this would've been impossible without some split ticket votes.
He’s certainly not controversial enough to dampen any of the Coconut-pilled people’s energy. I think this was a good pick, especially in contrast to Vance
Holy shit lfg
Quick question: is GenZ or Gen Alpha lingo? This old millennial is a bit surprised I let that slip.
That's probably closer to Zoomer language. (Zoomer here)
Solid Mid-Western guy; reasonable and practical. He's a fine choice and I like him.
Seems like a pretty safe and reliable pick. Especially since there's pretty much no chance Minnesota will elect a Republican governor.
I'm still disappointed it wasn't a woman though.
I don't think Americans are ready for a 2-woman ticket. Picking a likable white guy was a smart move.
People said Americans weren't ready for a black president too.
A black male President with a white male VP is a much smaller hurdle than a black/indian woman Pres with another woman VP. Remember black men got the right to vote before women did.
I said it when Hilary was nominated to run against Trump: America is more sexist than they are racist. They will accept a black man to run a business/country/church before a white woman. The only reason Kamala has a chance is because she is running against the fucking craziest shitstain they could find.
Sure, but one step at a time.. If she wins Kamala will be the first female president.
Yeah, but this isn't the time for moonshots. I think it's sensible to go with whatever has the best odds of defeating Trump.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying Walz is a bad choice, I'm just disappointed.
Double mommy ticket would've locked in the Gooner demographic
Great, another politician in the pockets of (checks notes) Orthopedic Surgeons?
https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/tim-walz/contributors?cid=N00027467&cycle=2018
Dude seems pretty clean, and looks like he listens to protesters instead of fighting them.
~~Disappointing it's an 80 year old and not someone being groomed for a future run~~, but overall better than I expected.
I guess it's the same logic as pairing Biden with Obama.
Tim Walz is the same age as Kamala Harris lmao
Dude just has white hair.
Unreal, this is like learning that the age of the cast of Cheers or Seinfeld were in their late 20s early 30s
Walz is only a few months older than Harris. She is 59 and will be 60 in October. Walz turned 60 in April.
My bad, must have fucked up the mental math
No. You didn't.
Why so hostile to someone who was overall receptive to the pick and went back to correct their comment?
Seems like a good pick!
Yeah, I don't know much about him. But just looking at his wiki and open secrets and he's legit better than I thought we'd get.
A lot of the progressive pushes we had here in Minnesota are from him leading the charge.
Him and Peggy Flannigan who’ll replace him as gov when he resigns. (Iirc, Peggy will be our first native governor? This will be interesting.)
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