In his closing speech on Tuesday vice-presidential debateMinnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz said he was “surprised like everyone else” by the support Vice President Kamala Harris has garnered from a wide range of political beliefs.
“Support for democracy is important,” Walz said at the end of the CBS News debate in New York. “I’m as surprised as anyone about this 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 are really optimistic people,” he continued. “They believe in a positive future for this country, in which our politics can be better than they are now.”
He said Harris stood for “an opportunity economy that works for everyone” and “the idea that freedom really means something, not the freedom of the government to be in your bedroom or your exam room, but freedom for you to make choices about yourself.”
Walz said voters “know who Donald Trump is,” and Republican Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, his opponent, “made it clear that he would support Donald Trump’s agenda” during the debate.
Harris offers a different option, he said.
“Kamala Harris brings us a politics of joy,” he said. “It provides real solutions for the middle class and it places you at the heart of this process.”
