CLEVELAND, Ohio — Nebraska native turned two-term Minnesota Governor Tim Walz tagged Trumplicans “Weird.” Now Democratic Presidential Nominee Kamala Harris has tagged Gov. Walz to be her winning running mate in the race to The White House against Trump-Vance.
When asked at a Wisconsin rally, Sen. J.D. Vance said the “weird argument came from a bunch of 24-year-old social media interns who were bullied in school and they decided they’re going project that out to the entire Trump campaign.”
In truth it came from 60 year-old former social studies and geography teacher Tim Walz who had been encouraged to run for office by his high school students. Walz had also been a football coach at the school turning a team with a losing record into state champions.
Walz was born and raised on a Nebraska farm. His Dad had also been a teacher. At 17 he joined the National Guard serving 24 years rising to become a Command Sergeant Major before leaving to run for U.S. Congress in a red district which he won. Walz served 12 years in Congress becoming Chair of the House Veteran Affairs Committee before being elected Governor of Minnesota in 2018.
As a Congressmen, Walz voted as a moderate. As a Governor he’s been more center-left. Now who may be the first female Commander-in-Chief wants the Command Sergeant Major to be her righthand man.
The pick of Walz by Harris looks to be a wise, winning choice. While Vance wrote his bestselling bio ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ and was picked to be on the Trump ticket in part for his presumed appeal to rural voters, he instead gives off ‘Elite’ vibes where Walz is coming off more authentically rural, down-to-earth and normal.
Vance may have been born in Appalachia, but he was raised in Middletown, Ohio, a northern suburb of Cincinnati almost halfway to Dayton. Middletown is middle class with a housing stock that mirrors many suburbs in Northeastern, Ohio.
From Middletown, Vance went on to graduate from Yale law school then moved to California to become a venture capitalist.
Unlike Vance, who has held elected office less than two years, Walz is more qualified on day one to be president if need be. Not only having served in Congress for 12 years, more significantly having been a two-term Governor. Yet Tim Walz still comes off like a working class Joe you’d like to go to a Bruce Springsteen concert with, which his colleagues have done. A guy who quotes Warren Zevo song lyrics instead of talking like Vance about “childless cat ladies”
Vance defamed “childless cat lady” Harris’s running mate Walz is a happy IVF Father. Walz confided he and his wife, an english teacher, used IVF treatments to have their first child, a daughter they named Hope. They later also had a son named Gus. Hope of course represents the Walz’s hopes to start a family but it may also now be a good omen for presidential race success. ‘HOPE’ had been emblazoned on the bottom of Barack Obama’s iconic red and blue campaign poster. Walz now shares the ticket with possibly the first female Black/South Asian President of the United States.
TRUMP PRAISED WALZ IN 2020:
Durin his rally stop at a nearly empty Wisconsin parking lot, Vance knocked Gov. Walz response to the George Floyd protests in Minneapolis.
“Allowed rioters to burn down the streets of Minneapolis !” charged Vance.
Trump had the opposite take. In a June 2, 2020 conference call with governors Trump praised Walz as an “Excellent Guy ” who “Dominated.”
Walz may have governed in Minnesota like a progressive, but he doesn’t look or act like a member of “the squad.” He’s the good natured and humored Uncle that’s nice to hang out with. In his Carhartt jacket and hunting cap, Walz could easily be mistaken as a Trump voter. Walz, an expert marksman in the National Guard once had an “A” rating from the NRA until he turned his contributions over to student victims of gun violence. The hunter and fisherman will now be spending the next 3 months hunting and fishing for votes