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From Fox News: Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reacted live on Tuesday to Vice President Harris’ decision to pick Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn., as her running mate and said he was a “wonderful” choice before taking aim at critics arguing he was too far left.
“Tim Walz is wonderful. She had many good choices. Tim Walz I know very well. He served in the House. To characterize him as left is so unreal. It’s just not, he’s right down the middle. He’s a heartland of America Democrat,” she told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
The 60-year-old Walz, a former congressman, is in his second term as governor of Minnesota, a Democratic-leaning state that the Trump campaign has aimed at flipping this cycle. No Republican White House candidate has won Minnesota since 1972. Despite Walz’s staunchly progressive record, Pelosi called him “right down the middle.”
“Really it’s mystifying to me to see someone that I worked with, shall we say right down the middle, characterized on the left in this regard. He has her confidence, obviously. That was the decision that the presidential nominee, soon-to-be president of the United States, has made. I respect her decision. I respect all the rest,” she said, referring to Harris’ other VP options. “He has a great vision for our country. It’s about working-class families, about rural America, about our veterans. He has won for governor two times in Minnesota. Reverend [Al] Sharpton talked about his decision in terms of the George Floyd, such a sad situation. And obviously, we respect the judgment of our nominee for president. Her comfort level is our comfort level.”
Elected to the House in 2006, Tim Walz served six terms representing Minnesota’s 1st Congressional District, a predominantly rural area in the southern part of the state. During his final two years in Congress, he was the ranking member of the House Veterans Affairs Committee.
Recently, Walz referred to his competitors, former President Trump and Sen. JD Vance, as “weird.”
He also faced criticism for urging men on a “White Dudes for Harris” phone call to embrace progressive values.
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