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U.S. Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris holds a marketing campaign rally along with her new operating mate for the vice presidency, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., August 6, 2024.
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Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, her new operating mate, made their first public look collectively at aa rally Tuesday night time in Philadelphia.
“I couldn’t be extra proud to be on this ticket,” Walz informed a rapt viewers of greater than 12,000 folks, in line with Harris’ marketing campaign. “Thanks for bringing the enjoyment again.”
“Because the day I introduced my candidacy, I’ve been looking for a accomplice who might help construct this brighter future,” Harris mentioned in her personal rally speech Tuesday. “I’ve discovered such a frontrunner: Governor Tim Walz of the good state of Minnesota.”
Two weeks in the past, Walz was a comparatively unknown Democrat on the nationwide stage. However his sharp, candid media interviews, coupled along with his compelling Midwestern, middle-class profile, rapidly catapulted him onto Harris’ VP shortlist.
Harris’ marketing campaign formally introduced Walz as her operating mate on Tuesday morning, bolstering her Democratic lead with simply 91 days till the election.
U.S. Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris reacts throughout a marketing campaign rally along with her new operating mate for the vice presidency, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., August 6, 2024.
Elizabeth Frantz | Reuters
Walz sharply criticized the Republican candidacies of former President Donald Trump and Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio, typically drawing laughter from the viewers.
“Make no mistake, violent crime has gone up beneath Donald Trump,” Walz mentioned, “and that is not even counting the crimes he dedicated.”
The Minnesota governor additionally sought to attract a pointy distinction between himself and Vance, who has based mostly a lot of his political biography on representing Midwestern values.
“Like all of the common folks I grew up with within the heartland, JD went to Yale, bankrolled his profession with Silicon Valley billionaires, after which wrote a best-selling guide trashing that neighborhood,” Walz joked.
Harris used her speech to focus on a number of parts of Walz’s biography: his time within the Military Nationwide Guard, his decades-long profession as a highschool trainer and soccer coach, and his time as an adviser to the varsity’s gay-straight alliance.
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Harris additionally launched a number of new phrases in her evolving marketing campaign speech, particularly designed to enchantment to moderates and political independents.
“That is my promise to you: Our marketing campaign will attain everybody, from crimson states to blue states, from the heartland to the coasts, in rural, city, suburban and tribal communities,” Harris mentioned, underscoring the marketing campaign’s technique of utilizing Walz to increase the Democratic coalition.
“We’re campaigning on behalf of all Individuals,” she mentioned.
Since asserting Walz as her operating mate, the marketing campaign has launched new Harris-Walz merchandise, in addition to a number of adverts introducing Walz and statements on social media.
Democratic presidential candidate, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and Democratic vice presidential candidate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz seem collectively on stage throughout a marketing campaign occasion at Girard School on August 6, 2024 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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The marketing campaign mentioned it raised $20 million in donations after Walz was introduced, a fraction of the $310 million the marketing campaign raised in July alone.
Over the previous two weeks, Walz has gone via an expedited VP screening course of, together with fellow candidates together with Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly and Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear.
Shapiro, reportedly the second-leading candidate, joined the Harris-Walz rally in his house state on Tuesday night time and gave a loud speech expressing his assist for the candidate’s ticket regardless of finally being rejected for vp.
“I will work extraordinarily onerous to make it possible for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are the subsequent leaders of the US of America,” Shapiro informed the gang. “Tim Walz is a superb patriot. And I will inform you what else: Tim Walz is an expensive buddy.”
U.S. Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and her new operating mate for vp, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, react throughout a marketing campaign rally in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., August 6, 2024.
Elizabeth Frantz | Reuters
Harris’ choice on his operating mate was the fruits of a weeks-long scramble to reshuffle the Democratic slate of candidates after President Joe Biden withdrew from the race following his disappointing efficiency within the June debate in opposition to Trump.
“I simply began my marketing campaign for president of the US two weeks in the past, and it has been fairly a whirlwind,” Harris mentioned on the rally in Philadelphia, acknowledging the turbocharged timeline her marketing campaign has been working on. “Now we have got some work to do. We have got to get to the overall election and win it.”
