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 Harris to debut running mate Tuesday night as part of battleground blitz
by Brett Samuels - 08/05/24 5:00 AM ET

Vice President Harris will hold her first rally alongside her yet-to-be-announced running mate Tuesday night in Philadelphia, her campaign said, as part of a five-day, seven-state blitz for the Democratic ticket.

Harris spent the weekend interviewing prospective running mates, including Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D), Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.

She will announce her choice no later than Tuesday, when she and her running mate will embark on a five-day swing through the seven battleground states expected to decide November’s election.

Harris and her vice presidential pick will start Tuesday night in Philadelphia before traveling to Wisconsin and Michigan on Wednesday, North Carolina and Georgia on Thursday, Arizona on Friday and Nevada on Saturday.

In addition to larger rallies, including at least one stop at a historically Black college or university, Harris and her running mate will meet with voters in smaller settings like restaurants and union halls, the campaign said. They will be joined at each stop by local officials.

“This swing will allow the Vice President and her running mate to speak directly with voters in their communities and cement the contrast between our ticket and Trump’s,” the campaign said.

Harris last week earned enough delegates to become the presumptive Democratic nominee, setting up a likely match-up in November against former President Trump.

A CBS News/YouGov poll published Sunday found Harris leading Trump by 1 point nationally and tied with the former president in key battleground states.

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https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4810893-harris-to-debut-running-mate-tuesday-night-as-part-of-battleground-blitz/
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Since yesterday, everyone's been talking about Walz, the guy who let Minneapolis burn during the summer of 2020, as if he'd supplanted Shapiro in the veepstakes.
His former opponent tweeted this:

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Walz, like Harris, is all-in on child mutilation.

Last year Tim Walz signed an executive order that made Minnesota a sanctuary state for child gender abuse. He invited families like this one who are transitioning their 6 year-olds ...

https://twitter.com/ExposeDarkDeeds/status/1820642890776805596
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Tim Walz raised his daughter so well.

During the BLM riots she was tweeting out the line position of the National Guard to make sure the rioters didn’t get caught.

https://twitter.com/JoeyMannarinoUS/status/1820621043771256871
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Vice President Kamala Harris has made a decision for her running mate, with four people close to the process saying Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota is her choice, per @jeffzeleny, @jamiegangel and @JohnKingCNN
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BREAKING: Tim Walz selected as Kamala’s running mate.
Couldn’t have picked a worse VP.
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It’s official - Kamala has chosen the white guy for her VP who allowed black communities in Minnesota to be burned, looted, and destroyed in the 2020 BLM riots

He kept back the National Guard

He told police to take a knee

He helped bail out the violent criminals

He is radical Tim Walz
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Welcome to the race, Tim Walz!

Let’s make sure America knows who you are.

You helped ignite the George Floyd riots, the worst the country had seen in decades. While Minneapolis burned, you stalled on deploying the National Guard for an entire day, blaming the city for not submitting the right paperwork. You let your daughter leak the Guard's deployment plans online, so that rioters would know how long they had to loot the city with impunity. Minneapolis is a war zone because of you.

Just days after the attempted murder of Donald Trump, you called him and his supporters "fascists," egging on the same rhetoric that led to him being shot in the first place.

You have overseen some of the most radical youth trans surgery laws in the country. Under your leadership teenagers can get their breast chopped off and get sterilized, and your government calls it “healthcare.”

You have the most radical abortion laws in the country. Zero limits. Every year 5-6 babies are BORN ALIVE and then murdered “legally” under laws you support.

On immigration, you famously said you wanted to provide a “ladder” so invaders can come over Trump’s wall. You are a radical open border zealot.

You oversaw the single worst fraud of the Covid era, the Feeding Our Future case. Thanks to ineptitude at your Department of Education, criminals stole $250 million of taxpayer dollars to spend on luxury cars, houses, and vacations.

Also during Covid, you approved $500 million in "hero pay" for frontline workers, only to have 40% of that money go to people who were ineligible or, in many cases, literally deceased.

In the House, you were Pelosi’s sidekick and did whatever the Democrats demanded.

You will try and disguise yourself as a folksy midwestern moderate. In reality, you are a white male version of Kamala Harris. Radical. Inept. Undeserving to be in leadership.

Make this go viral. Ruin their honeymoon. Let’s educate millions because the media will not.
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Ms. K is a sly fox.  She knows how to control the narrative and build suspense for the important position.

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Really glad she picked him rather than Shapiro, who I think would be a lot more dangerous politically.  Shapiro is smarter, and has more appeal to moderates.

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Hearing Biden suggested Josh Shapiro and warned Kamala not to underestimate JD Vance's appeal in the Rust Belt...and that Obama prefers Walz bc Shapiro would lose Michigan + start a floor fight at DNC
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Walz has always been a good Obama soldier. I was there when, as my Congressman, he lied through his teeth in front of an angry crowd of a thousand in a high school auditorium, saying Obamacare would not raise anyone’s premiums. He knew it was a lie. We knew it was a lie. And he was rewarded with the governor’s mansion to run the Covid/Floyd op.
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Walz is a big fan of giving stuff away to illegals, too (no surprise).

https://twitter.com/Liz_Wheeler/status/1820812407284846934
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Really glad she picked him rather than Shapiro, who I think would be a lot more dangerous politically.  Shapiro is smarter, and has more appeal to moderates.

Agreed.  If true then selecting Walz is a very tin-eared and short-sighted move by the Democrats.  All he brings to the table is full-throated wokeness and a burned-out Minneapolis-St. Paul area.  He's kind like a midwestern Bernie Sanders, and as another pasty-white, late middle age hack, he will have no appeal outside the far left.

Shapiro on the other hand would have been a dangerous pick for Republicans since he is a young family man, relatively good-looking, smart and ambitious, and pretends to be "moderate" very well, and he supports Israel (which probably doomed him with Obama and Harris' handlers).  I think Republicans dodged a bullet here with Walz over Shapiro since Walz will do little to energize the base, unlike what Sarah Palin did for McCain in 2008.
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Harris picking Walz is like picking a squad member...who I am sure are thrilled.
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Harris picking Walz is like picking a squad member...who I am sure are thrilled.

If Shapiro was really interested in the VP slot, he's going to hold a silent grudge (per Fetterman's warning) and will likely do the bare minimum to help Harris-Walz out in Pennsylvania, since he wants to run himself in 2028, and she would be in his way if she wins.  Shapiro is great at using a passive-aggressive strategy to get what he wants.
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Consideing how badly Biden et. al have screwed over Israel, you got to wonder if this snub of Shapiro might sway a few Jewish votes and money.
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Yup

Shades of 2012 and 2022.

Watching Donald Trump’s reaction to that much-needed and over due correction yesterday tells me that he is having trouble finding something that’ll stick. He blamed Harris for the correction in the stock market that just earlier this year he took credit for its record highs.  So now today that it’s rebounding, he’s silent .

If anybody thinks this pick is going to hurt the Harris campaign, keep dreaming. He defeated the Trump endorsed opponent for reelection in 2022. Walz was an absolute safe pick for her because it doesn’t  upset the Palestinian base of the Democratic Party. I will guarantee there will be no “shades of Chicago 1968” now. They are going into this convention united

I see all the same arguments being made today as in 2022 when the economy and inflation rate  was  in worse shape than today. I also believed foolishly in the red wave. Our GOP senator dodged the MAGA label in 2022 and was re-elected despite our democrat governor being reelected 

I have been watching Harris’s campaign that was  supposed to implode because Democrats were supposed to be upset by having their votes taken away in the primary and I see nothing of the sorts. It does not quite match the enthusiasm of Obamas 2008 campaign as of yet, but it’s more enthusiastic than Hillary or Biden. Her base is concentrated in the blue cities. Trump will take the rural areas. But if she gets close to 90% of the urban vote, she can afford to lose some of the suburbs.


Back in 2012, I told people that Mitt Romney was going to lose and many people thought there was no way. Republicans bested  Democrats  in the 2010 midterms, you had the rise of the tea party, People were still dissatisfied with the state of the economy, and Romney didn’t run a campaign like McCain did. But Obama kept his base. And this is the same base now that are coming out for Harris. Romney  mistakenly believed that Obama’s base wouldn’t come out for him in the numbers that they did in 2008 and their enthusiasm in 2012 was not as high…oops

Urban  voters are not voting for Kamala Harris because of the issues. Do people really believe that black females in the urban areas are going to give up their chance to have the first minority female as president and vote for the cranky old white guy? No

Some people need to venture outside their bubbles. Trump could still win. Kamala Harris could do something so egregious to turn off vast majority of this country. But I wouldn’t count on it


Republicans are going to have to decide if they want to win elections or maintain loyalty to Trump. They cannot have both

Ancedotal evidence, but I live in a fairly Democrat area in Northeast Wisconsin that just a few weeks ago, were down in the dumps and now are rejuvenated and thrilled with Harris in the race. 
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So she picked the saddest little putz in the entire Rat lineup. This guy will be an excellent poster child and punching bag for the mayhem he let happen, and Shamala cheered on.


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Some good analysis here by Ed Morrisey...he agrees with us:

BREAKING: Kamala Snubs Shapiro, Picks Walz

https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2024/08/06/breaking-kamala-snubs-shapiro-picks-walz-n3792754

And this is just pathetic...  https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1820454781556551773/photo/1

Which means that Shapiro will certainly carry a big grudge.
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Below is a list of radical policies Walz supported:

    A June report from Minnesota’s legislative auditor found that Walz’s administration “failed miserably in its duty to properly oversee millions of federal dollars it administered to nonprofits to feed children.” The report said that alleged Walz’s incompetence “created opportunities for fraud.” Axios reported: “The report highlighted several ways in which the Walz administration failed to rein in the fraud, undercutting the governor’s longstanding claims that his agency staff deserve credit, not criticism, for their efforts to catch and stop it.”

    Walz signed legislation to allow minors to get sex-change operations in Minnesota. He signed a bill to require schools to stock period products in boys’ bathrooms.

    Walz allegedly failed to anticipate and react to riots in Minneapolis after the death of George Floyd at police hands.  Even the liberal mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, slammed Walz’s response to the riots.

    Under Walz’s leadership, Minnesota gives free college tuition to illegal immigrants.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/08/06/video-tim-walz-one-persons-socialism-is-another-persons-neighborliness/
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