Tim Walz accepted the Democratic Party’s vice presidential nomination tonight in Chicago, closing out a slate of speakers that included Oprah Winfrey and former President Bill Clinton.
Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz reacts with his daughter Hope Walz after accepting the Democratic vice presidential nomination on stage during the third day of the Democratic National Convention.
When he was elected to Congress from Minnesota, Walz said, “I learned how to compromise, without compromising my values,” he said.Walz also spoke, as he and his wife Gwen have repeatedly, about their struggle with infertility prior to having their two children, and the “absolute agony when we heard that the treatments hadn’t worked.
Clinton also praised Harris and Walz as two people with “all-American but still improbable life stories,” and described Harris as the only candidate with the experience and temperament for the job of president.Freedom continued to play out as an overarching theme of the convention, in a variety of forms.
The program also featured advocates for LGBTQ rights, including a video speech from a couple whose marriage was officiated by Harris when she was California’s attorney general.Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel referred to both gay rights and abortion rights, describing her decision, after the fall of Roe v. Wade,Nessel also celebrated her same-sex marriage, challenging conservative judges to “Pry this wedding band from my cold, dead, gay hands.
His father, Jon Polin, spoke of “a surplus of agony on all sides of the tragic conflict in the Middle East. In a competition of pain, there are no winners.” Troye continued the evening’s theme, saying she’s supporting Harris “not because we agree on every issue but because we agree on the most important issue: protecting our freedom.”
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