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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Tim Walz is an excellent choice for the working class. I'm excited and will be all in for a Harris-Walz ticket.

Tim Walz's accomplishments as Governor:

  • Universal free school lunches
  • Paid sick and medical leave
  • Banned non-compete agreements
  • Expanded protections for workers at Amazon warehouses
  • Increased wages for Uber and Lyft workers
  • Legalization of cannabis
  • Achieved substantial police reform including bans on chokeholds, peace officers and deescalation training, and an independent Bureau of Criminal Apprehension
  • 100% clean energy by 2040
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It will be Shapiro or Kelly. I'm leaning Shapiro cuz they want to lock up PA, but I really like Kelly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I'm thinking it'll be Shapiro also because of Pennsylvania.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Please don’t take my Mark Kelly dream from me 😢

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm trying to wrap my head around:

Doesn't Alienate any part of the coalition

What does that even mean?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Appeals to the left side of the party without pissing off the centrists.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Nothing. It means absolutely nothing

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Old white man may pacify older generation of voters.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Be careful of writing him off as just an “old white man”. He’s done pretty great with a tiny majority in MN and he’s been a great communicator.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

school teacher for 20 years, 24 serving in the guard. stellar public service record. definitely ticks all the boxes.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Sounds great! He pacifies the folks who just want an old white man, and also brings a lot of important characteristics to the table. Good by me!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Tim Walz's accomplishments as Governor:

  • Universal free school lunches
  • Paid sick and medical leave
  • Banned non-compete agreements
  • Expanded protections for workers at Amazon warehouses
  • Increased wages for Uber and Lyft workers
  • Legalization of cannabis
  • Achieved substantial police reform including bans on chokeholds, peace officers and deescalation training, and an independent Bureau of Criminal Apprehension
  • 100% clean energy by 2040
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
  • Sanctuary state for transgender people
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And sanctuary state for reproductive healthcare with privacy protections and refusal of subpoena for medical records regarding abortions or other related procedures.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Hunnert percent. He's quietly just bringing it home. I'm honestly a little afraid of what it'd be like without him

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

sounds like another tim kaine moment.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Sounds like a great guy who would do well, but is needed in his state more than as VP.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Katie Porter isn't doing anything now that she lost her Senate bid to Schiff, and has made some fans even in conservative circles for her whiteboard explanations and takedowns of pharma CEOs and pentagon overspending.

I know a bunch of people say Kamala needs a white man for VP, but I'm not sure that tracks logically, sexists aren't going to suddenly be okay with a woman just because she has a man as VP.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I came here to say, as a Minnesotan: "NO. HE'S OURS. HECK OFF, WE'RE KEEPING HIM!"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Honestly, we’ll manage just fine with Peggy Flanagan. She’s pretty great too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I go back and forth on Raphael Warnock for the same reason. He's definitely needed in Georgia, but wouldn't it be great for a presidential candidate to be able to say the last person they talk to before any major decision as president will be a pastor?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I believe that people are ready to leave Red State/Blue State behind.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I'd be ecstatic if Walz ends up being chosen. He's not without a couple of cons that I could think of right of the top of my head, but if I'm going purely on the basis of what I'd like to see in a VP, he's at the very top of the list of those who I've seen get mentioned as in the running.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah he seems alright

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Waltz is a dream VP pick

He might be the only pick that would make me enthusiastically vote instead of begrudgingly

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We need him here though. He keeps getting elected, and keeps shutting down the R pushback in the house. He's a huge asset to MN and it would suck to lose him.

Walz is a large part of why this "traditional Midwestern" Minnesota is a transgender sanctuary state.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Yea, I'm a little torn. I really love having him here, but at the same time we need people like him in DC pushing for working-class policy.

If there was any indication that there was a solid Dem replacement like him here, I think it'd be a no-brainer. But so far I don't know if there's anyone else like him in MN to take his place if he's called up to the presidential ticket.