Vice President Harris and running mate Gov. Tim Walz to kick off a battleground state tour with a rally in Philadelphia in their election matchup against Donald Trump and JD Vance.
PHILADELPHIA — Democrat Gov. Tim Walz is not a household name outside his home state of Minnesota. So, in the hours after Vice President Harris named the former longtime congressman and two-term governor as her running mate on the Democratic Party's 2024 ticket, the Harris campaign instantly began working to showcase Walz.
The introduction to Walz is needed because 7 in 10 Americans didn't know enough about the governor to form an opinion, according to a new poll by Marist College for NPR and 'PBS NewsHour.' As she boarded Air Force Two on her way to Philadelphia, Harris said Walz 'is going to make a great vice president' when asked why she chose him over some of the other front-runners in the veepstakes: Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona.
The Harris campaign on Tuesday afternoon said it hauled in more than $10 million from grassroots supporters in the hours after the vice president announced her running mate, which it said was 'one of the campaign's best fundraising days this cycle.' The naming of the 60-year-old Walz was not a shocker as his name was instantly thought to be in contention in the 16 days since Harris succeeded President Biden as the party's standard-bearer.
The governor will also be able to showcase a slew of progressive policy victories in Minnesota, including protecting abortion rights, legalizing recreational marijuana, and restricting gun access to curb shootings. And the naming of Walz over more moderate Democrats such as Shapiro and Kelly will please the progressive wing of the party. 'As a governor, a coach, a teacher and a veteran, he's delivered for working families like his,' Harris said in announcing her choice.
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