2024-08-07 19:04:20
(ANSA) – WASHINGTON, 06 AUG – A compassionate and joyful America, which “values” its citizens and does not crush them, which guarantees rights and equal opportunities to all, whose linchpin is a strong and productive middle class but which looks to the most disadvantaged categories. These are the United States of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, together for the first time on stage in Philadelphia, where they were welcomed by an enthusiastic crowd galvanized by the governor of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro, rejected from the role of vice president but ready to put his heart and soul into the victory of the Democratic ticket. Tim Walz “was the teacher that everyone dreams of and that all students deserve,” Harris said while introducing her candidate for vice president, using the nickname ‘coach’, which comes from his past as a high school football coach where he taught geography and which immediately went viral on social media. The 60-year-old, who spent 24 years in the American National Guard, was also chosen for his normality, an authoritative and reassuring figure at the same time, liberal but with common sense, able to speak to rural America and the undecided. “He is the vice president that the United States deserves,” insisted Harris, now perfectly at ease in the role of candidate and overwhelmed by the enthusiasm of the crowd that shouted: “We will not go back”. From health care – which “is a right and not a privilege of those who can afford it” – to the strictest controls ever for those who want to own a gun to reproductive rights, the program outlined by the Democratic candidate is not far from that of Joe Biden. But it is undeniable that the energy and forces in the field have completely changed after the withdrawal of the elderly president. “We know we are the ‘underdogs’ in this race but we have the momentum on our side and we know who we are up against,” said Harris. And this enthusiasm is also driven by the choice of Walz who, with his experience, 12 years in Congress and 5 as governor, “will be ready from day one” to be vice president, the vice president assured. (ANSA).
2024-08-07 19:04:20