US Vice President Kamala Harris has selected Tim Walz, a Minnesota Lutheran, as her running mate for the presidential election. Source: NCR Online.
Ms Harris secured her party’s nomination for president shortly after President Joe Biden’s historic announcement on July 21 that he would end his own re-election bid and endorse her.
“I am proud to announce that I’ve asked (Walz) to be my running mate,” Ms Harris wrote in a post on X, formerly Twitter. “As a governor, a coach, a teacher, and a veteran, he’s delivered for working families like his. It’s great to have him on the team.”
Mr Walz, a former public school teacher, a former member of the Army National Guard and a former Minnesota representative in Congress, was elected governor of Minnesota in 2018 and re-elected in 2022.
In his official biography, Mr Walz’s website touts his work on issues such as providing free school lunches and some paid family leave, but also efforts to expand legal protections for abortion.
Mr Walz and his wife, Gwen, married in 1994 and have two children.
“It is the honour of a lifetime to join (Harris) in this campaign,” Mr Walz wrote in a post on X. “I’m all in. Vice President Harris is showing us the politics of what’s possible. It reminds me a bit of the first day of school.”
Mr Walz gained attention online with some of his media appearances after Mr Biden ended his bid to run for president with Ms Harris, including calling former president Donald Trump and his running mate, Ohio senator JD Vance “weird”.
Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, which works to elect pro-life candidates to public office, said in a statement, “Kamala Harris and Tim Walz make up the most pro-abortion presidential ticket America has ever seen. There is no daylight between them on this issue.”
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After weeks of speculation, Harris picks Minnesota’s Walz as running mate (By Kate Scanlon, OSV News via NCR Online)
