The vice-president has chosen his vice-presidential candidate. 60-year-old Tim Walz will be Kamala Harris’s partner in the 2024 presidential election. CNN and Reuters both report that. Together, the two will enter the election campaign for the Democratic Party. There they will fight against Donald Trump and JD Vance from the Republican Party. Down-to-earth and pragmatic Walz is governor of Minnesota, and is known for being down-to-earth and pragmatic. He has been a history teacher and coach for an American football team at a local school. He is considered to be very progressive and has strong ties to the unions, writes CNBC. Tim Walz is a history teacher and football coach. And perhaps the next vice president of the United States? Photo: Elizabeth Frantz / Reuters His portrayal of Donald Trump and JD Vance in an interview with MSNBC has really taken off, both on social media and in the Democratic Party: – Those things are weird. They just seem strange, he said of the Republican opponents. Trump’s political opponents have been busy portraying him as a danger to democracy. But Walz’s more humorous angle of attack, in which he brings out how strange some of the actions of Trump and Vance have been, seems to be catching on. – I haven’t seen a rhetorical strategy that is so good, effective and funny for a long time, the professor of strategic political communication at George Washington University told Salon. “Full package” Political scientist and US expert Hilmar Mjelde can well see why Harris chose Walz over the other candidates. – Tim Walz is the complete package. He has political experience from the highest level, has been the tone-setting critic of Trump in recent weeks and is popular in all parts of the party, he says. Hilmar Mjelde is a political scientist at Høgskulen på Vestlandet (HVL). American politics is one of his areas of focus. The fact that Harris is now vice president in the Biden administration means that she has first-hand knowledge of how closely a vice president and president must work together. Mjelde highlights the personal chemistry between Harris and Walz as an important element. – The chemistry is good and has proven to have electoral appeal in the crucial and important Midwest. Want to draw voters from Trump American media had previously identified six names as favourites. Several from states that Harris hopes to win to beat Trump in the November election: Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro (51) Arizona Senator Mark Kelly (60) Minnesota Governor Tim Waltz (60) Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear (46) Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg (42) Illinois Governor JB Pritzker (59) All the candidates are white men. This suggests that Harris would choose someone who can draw potential voters away from Trump, several commentators thought. The deadline for announcing the partner was set for 7 August. A quick process It has been a whirlwind of a rollercoaster summer in the USA. The party had to throw itself around when Joe Biden withdrew from the presidential campaign at the last minute on 21 July. It quickly became clear that the candidate was Harris, who had no real challengers. After a five-day vote, which started on Thursday, it was officially announced that Harris is the Democrats’ presidential candidate on Tuesday morning Norwegian time. She got 99 percent of the vote, according to the Democratic Electoral Committee. Already on Friday she had secured the votes she needed. But Harris had no time to rest on his laurels. In just a few days, she had to choose her vice-presidential candidate, a process that usually takes several months. On Tuesday, Harris and Walz set out on a four-day tour, among other things, to several rocking stadiums. It all starts with an election meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Many have interpreted it as a sign that Josh Shapiro was likely to become a vice-presidential candidate, but in the end it was Walz who landed the position. Interested in foreign affairs? Listen to the foreign affairs editor’s podcast: Published 06.08.2024, at 14.52 Updated 06.08.2024, at 15.08
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