(24 News) Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris announced Minnesota Governor Tim Walls as her vice presidential candidate.
Kamala Harris, the current Vice President of the United States and the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate, announced her running mate in a speech at a rally held in Pennsylvania today, before she shortlisted a few names, including Governor Josh Shapiro of the same state. However, due to some reasons, they did not remain at the top.
Other Democrats who were shortlisted included Arizona Senator Mark Kelly, Michigan Governor Gretion Whitmer, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear and Transportation Secretary Pete Bada Judge, who were also named for various reasons. Considered.
However, sources say that on Sunday, the list was narrowed down to just two names, including Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro and Minnesota’s 60-year-old Governor Tim Walls.
Pennsylvania and Minnesota are considered to be among the top 6 dice rolling states, the others being Arizona, Michigan, Nevada and Wisconsin. In 6 of these 6 states, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are expected to have a close contest, while if Biden were the presidential candidate, according to the survey, Trump would have won the presidential election by easily defeating many of them.
Two Democratic sources claimed that Kamala Harris placed Tim Walz on the list Monday above Josh Shapiro and has a 95 percent chance that the six-term member of Congress from 2007 to 2019 and the state since. Kamala Harris will announce the appointment of Tim Walz as his deputy.
One of the reasons why the name of Tim Walls has come to the top is his rural background, Walls has a deep influence in the rural and suburban areas of the cities and according to sources, Kamala Harris wants to use this sword against Donald Trump. Tim Walls started politics in 2006 by defeating a Republican congressman in a rural constituency. It is for this reason that he is considered a champion of attracting white working-class rural voters, and these voters are also considered Donald Trump’s stronghold.
Tim Walls grew up in the state of Nebraska and was a social studies teacher for 20 years in a small town and married to a school teacher. Walls also served 24 years in the Army National Guard.
Not only this, Tim Walls is also known as an environmentalist politician and also in the sense that he has made himself the center of headlines across the United States for several months by calling Donald Trump a strange creature. Along with Trump in the creature, he has also included the Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance.
2024-08-08 05:38:44