A day after Kamala Harris chose Minnesota governor Tim Walz as her running mate in a surprising move sidestepping more popular Josh Shapiro, reports claimed that there was a particular reason why Tim Walz got the gig. His message to Harris was clear that he was not angling for anything else and that’s what probably got him the opportunity, reports said.
“I’m at the end of my career.This is not about me. This is about America’s working families,” Tim Walz told Harris and the vetting team, as reported by Politico. “And if I have to run through a brick wall, if I have to do the hard things,” Walz added, “I’m willing to do it because I’m not angling for anything else.” That Tim Walz not ‘angling’ for the president post assured Kamala that Tim was up to play the second fiddle to her like she played to Biden.
“That low ego, dutiful approach is exactly what Harris wanted to hear. After playing a similar role as loyal second to President Joe Biden for nearly four years, Harris wanted someone with the same approach,” Politico reported.
Walz’s profile complemented Harris’, the Politico report said, a House guy with “many friends who won a rural district by running as a moderate veteran, while Harris hails from deep-blue San Francisco, a former attorney general who maintains a tighter circle”.
‘The vice-president America deserves’
At their first joint appearance at a rally in Philadelphia, Kamala Harris introduced Tim Walz as the vice president America deserves. “He’s the kind of person who makes people feel like they belong and then inspires them to dream big. … That’s the kind of vice president America deserves,” Harris said.
Harris called Walz the “kind of teacher and mentor that every child in America dreams of having”. She told a story about him agreeing to lead his school’s gay-straight alliance, knowing “the signal it would send to have a football coach get involved”.
“I’m at the end of my career.This is not about me. This is about America’s working families,” Tim Walz told Harris and the vetting team, as reported by Politico. “And if I have to run through a brick wall, if I have to do the hard things,” Walz added, “I’m willing to do it because I’m not angling for anything else.” That Tim Walz not ‘angling’ for the president post assured Kamala that Tim was up to play the second fiddle to her like she played to Biden.
“That low ego, dutiful approach is exactly what Harris wanted to hear. After playing a similar role as loyal second to President Joe Biden for nearly four years, Harris wanted someone with the same approach,” Politico reported.
Walz’s profile complemented Harris’, the Politico report said, a House guy with “many friends who won a rural district by running as a moderate veteran, while Harris hails from deep-blue San Francisco, a former attorney general who maintains a tighter circle”.
‘The vice-president America deserves’
At their first joint appearance at a rally in Philadelphia, Kamala Harris introduced Tim Walz as the vice president America deserves. “He’s the kind of person who makes people feel like they belong and then inspires them to dream big. … That’s the kind of vice president America deserves,” Harris said.
Harris called Walz the “kind of teacher and mentor that every child in America dreams of having”. She told a story about him agreeing to lead his school’s gay-straight alliance, knowing “the signal it would send to have a football coach get involved”.
Source : Times of India
