Kamala Harris’s Advice To Tim Walz Before Introduction | EUROtoday
Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.) has revealed the easy phrases of encouragement that Vice President Kamala Harris stated to him earlier than he gave his introduction speech in August at a Harris rally in Philadelphia.
“I’m standing at that door in Philadelphia,” Walz stated on Monday’s episode of the podcast “SmartLess.” “Like, 12, 15,000 people waiting to see the vice president and this announcement. She and I are standing outside the curtain and she’s like, you know, ‘Well, get this right.’”
Walz instructed the hosts of “SmartLess,” actors Will Arnett, Jason Bateman and Sean Hayes, about getting the decision that he was going to be Harris’ operating mate within the 2024 election.
“Within 20 minutes, my life changed,” Walz stated. “I’m minding my own damn business at home, and all of a sudden, it blows up.”
He stated quickly, individuals had arrived to pack his luggage for him, and he was taken to Philadelphia on a personal flight.
“I’ve never flown on a private plane to do this,” Walz stated.
Arnett interjected, joking: “That’s funny, because Jason’s never not.”
Walz stated he warned Harris’ workforce that he had by no means given a speech from a teleprompter.
“I speak, and it has its problems, and I told them that,” Walz stated. “You’ll get about 90% good and then you’ll get 10% stuff you’ll have to clean up. That’s me, cause that’s how I talk.”
He stated he was put at the back of a school locker room in an space made as much as seem like the stage he’d quickly be standing on. He practiced a bit, he stated, after which it was time to do it for actual.
Walz additionally spoke about girls’s well being care on the podcast. Arnett stated it’s an important situation for him on this 12 months’s election.
“Men need to know how to talk about it,” Walz stated. “Men need to know how women’s bodies work, and how doctors understand that. And I think that’s something that has changed.”
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Walz continued: “You think they’re sitting around in the bar in Wisconsin saying, ‘You know what we really need to do? We need to ban Orwell’s books and we need to give billionaires a tax cut and we need to repress women.’ Let’s hope not.”
Walz additionally stated he agrees with Harris’ plan to nominate a Republican to her Cabinet if she wins. He talked about former Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) and Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) as “super conservative” politicians who’re “honorable” and “honest.” (Flake has endorsed Harris, whereas Lankford has repeatedly been essential of each her and the Biden administration.)
“Some of these people need to be put in a position where they truly have the ability to influence things, because they are ethical and they care about this country,” Walz stated.
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