"The much-anticipated decision creates a ticket with two candidates from strikingly different backgrounds: #Harris, 59, is #Black & #Indian American & spent much of her career as an attorney & prosecutor in deep-blue #California.
Meanwhile, #Walz, 60, is a #veteran & hunter who has spent most of his life in rural #Nebraska & #Minnesota — and is the first #Democratic vice-presidential pick since 1964 who did not go to #law school."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/06/who-is-tim-walz/
#KamalaHarris #VP #TimWalz #News #USA
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •"Walz’s foray into politics came later in life: Born and raised in West Point, Neb., a small rural town, after high school he enlisted in the #Army National Guard, where he would serve for the next 24 years. After losing his father to lung #cancer at age 19 — which he would later say shaped his views on #HealthCare — #Walz enrolled in Chadron State College in #Nebraska and graduated with a #teaching degree in 1989."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/06/who-is-tim-walz/
#TimWalz #VP #KamalaHarris #HarrisWalz2024 #USA #News
Tim Walz’s journey from high school football coach to VP candidate
Amy B Wang (The Washington Post)Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •"In 2006, #Walz won the race to represent #Minnesota’s 1st Congressional District, flipping a #Republican seat in a #rural part of the state...
Walz would win reelection to his seat five more times before leaving the #House to run for #governor. In the 2018 gubernatorial race, Walz defeated his Republican opponent by more than 10 percentage points."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/06/who-is-tim-walz/
#TimWalz #HarrisWalz2024 #KamalaHarris #Kamala #Harris #US #Politics #USPol #USA #News
Tim Walz’s journey from high school football coach to VP candidate
Amy B Wang (The Washington Post)Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •"In 2022, #Walz handily won reelection... while #Democrats also flipped the state #Senate, securing a trifecta for Democrats... that has allowed them to pass liberal priorities. Democrats under Walz’s governorship have enshrined the right to #abortion, allowed undocumented #immigrants to obtain a driver’s license, expanded background checks for gun transfers, legalized recreational #marijuana &offered protections for people seeking or providing gender-affirming #HealthCare."
#LGBTQ #USA #News
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •"his folksy demeanor and willingness to use plain language to criticize former president Donald #Trump and Sen. #JDVance (R-Ohio) helped catapult him onto Harris’s vice-presidential shortlist. In interviews, #Walz cast Trump and #Vance as not just a threat to #democracy but, simply, #weird, an attack that quickly caught on for #Democrats and that struck a nerve for #Republicans."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/06/who-is-tim-walz/
#TimWalz #KamalaHarris #Kamala #Harris #HarrisWalz2024 #US #Politics #USPol #USA #News
Tim Walz’s journey from high school football coach to VP candidate
Amy B Wang (The Washington Post)Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •“Who’s asking for this #crazy stuff? Who’s asking to raise the price of #insulin? Who’s asking to get rid of #BirthControl? … Who’s sitting in a bar in Racine, #Wisconsin, saying, ‘You know what we really need? We need to #ban “Animal Farm.”’ Nobody is!” Walz told MSNBC last month, later adding:
“Yes, they’re #weird. They prove that every day. It’s an observation.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/06/who-is-tim-walz/
#WeirdGOP #GOP #Politics #USPol #USA #TimWalz #VP #KamalaHarris #HarrisWalz2024 #USA #News
Tim Walz’s journey from high school football coach to VP candidate
Amy B Wang (The Washington Post)Lesley Carhart :unverified:
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Lesley Carhart :unverified: • • •Trump and the GOP are only associated with #CreepyWeird which leaves #FunWeird for the rest of us!
Being fun weird is great!
Being creepy weird is... well... a problem when you are trying to convince everyone else that: "We're normal. The insane things that we are doing are perfectly normal. We're the normal ones. It's everyone else who is abnormal."
The GOP want's to claim a monopoly on #Normal. Which is rather weird when you think about it. 😉
Lesley Carhart :unverified:
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •