Minnesota Governor and former Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz continued his national “listening tour” at a Harvard Kennedy School forum, where he explained that Vice President Kamala Harris selected him as her 2024 running mate to help “code talk to white guys.”
“I would argue because we did a lot of amazing progressive things in Minnesota that improved people’s lives, but I also was on the ticket, quite honestly, you know, because I could code talk to white guys watching football fixing their truck, doing that, that I could put them at ease,” Walz said to the audience Monday night.
“I was the permission structure to say, look, you can do this and vote for this,” he added.
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Walz acknowledged the campaign’s shortcomings,
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