Kamala Harris has selected Tim Walz, the popular two-term governor of Minnesota, as her running mate, selecting a Midwestern Democrat to join her on the ticket.
Washington — Vice President Kamala Harris has selected Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to be her vice presidential running mate, four sources tell CBS News, tapping a Midwestern Democrat to join her on the ticket heading into November's election.News of the pick comes two weeks after President Biden ended his reelection campaign, prompting the Democratic Party to quickly coalesce around the vice president.
In a signal that his stock was rising in the veepstakes, Harris' campaign recently began echoing an attack line first used by Walz, who called Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, 'weird.' Walz's backgroundWalz, a 60-year-old Nebraska native, enlisted in the Army National Guard after high school and served for 24 years with both domestic and overseas deployments. He spent a year teaching high school in China after graduating from Chadron State College in 1989.
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