In her first major decision as the leader of the Democratic Party, Kamala Harris has chosen a sidekick: Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota.
Raw Story reported last night that appeared Harris had made her choice, but it’s still surprising that it’s not the popular battleground governor everyone expected.
Around 6:30 p.m. Eastern Time Monday, Dan Green posted on the social media site X that he was near Walz’s home and that a “bunch of black SUV’s just rolled out.”
“I am not a betting man but the vibe seemed very ‘this guy just got picked as VP,’ he wrote. “Feel free to interpret how you wish!”
Green later added he has “no idea what’s going on” and admitted he was only parked there for five to 10 minutes.
The tweet was enough to spark social media users, particularly after a similar scene was captured with Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, who was seen departing his Cincinnati home in a motorcade before being named former President Donald Trump’s running mate. In that instance, a local Fox television station reported that the extra security outside Vance’s homextra security outside Vance’s home was approved by Gov. Mike DeWine, the ATF and State Highway Patrol.
Walz is considered to be one of the furthest leftwing governors in the country. During one of the Whites Only Zoom calls for Harris, the Minnesota leader said that “one person’s socialism is another person’s neighborliness.”
This is Tim Walz.
A self aggrandizing socialist that proclaims “one persons socialism is another persons neighborliness.”
He’s a top contender for Kamala’s VP pick.
Yet another reason she can never sit behind The Resolute Desk in the Oval Office…! pic.twitter.com/aXycPlY4NR
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) August 5, 2024
In 2020, Walz faced major criticism after leaving Minneapolis to burn following the death of George Flloyd, ignoring several warnings of the growing violence in the city.
The New York Post reported, “In a bombshell interview with the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Mayor Jacob Frey said Walz failed to act after Frey repeatedly raised the alarm about growing unrest in the city that led to widespread looting and the torching of a police precinct and hundreds of other buildings.
Frey said he called Walz, a fellow Democrat, on the second night of unrest to warn him that a Target store was being looted and asked him to send in troops, which Walz eventually did days later.
The city of Minneapolis sustained more than $55 million in property damage from looting and protests demanding justice for Floyd’s death at the hands of white police officers.
‘We expressed the seriousness of the situation. The urgency was clear,’ Frey told the Star Tribune, while providing text messages between him and the governor.
‘He did not say yes,” Frey said of Walz, 56. “He said he would consider it.'”
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