In his closing speech on Tuesday vice presidential debateMinnesota’s Democratic Governor Tim Walz said he was “surprised like everyone else” by the support Vice President Kamala Harris has received from a broad spectrum of political persuasions.
“Support for democracy is important,” Walz said at the end of the debate, which was hosted by CBS News in New York. “I’m as surprised as anyone in the coalition that Kamala Harris has built, from Bernie Sanders to Dick Cheney to Taylor Swift and a whole bunch of people in between.”
“They don’t all agree on everything, but they’re really optimistic people,” he continued. “They believe in a positive future for this country, and one in which our politics can be better than they are now.”
He said Harris stands for an “opportunity economy that works for everyone” and “the idea that freedom really means something, not the freedom from the government to be in your bedroom or exam room, but the freedom to make choices about yourself.”
Walz said voters “know who Donald Trump is,” and GOP Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio, his opponent, “made it clear during the debate that he will support Donald Trump’s agenda.”
Harris offers another option, he said.
“Kamala Harris brings us a politics of joy,” he said. “She comes up with real solutions for the middle class, and she puts you at the center of it.”
