Minnesota Governor Tim Walz on Wednesday accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination to run alongside Kamala Harris for vice president.
“It is the honor of my life to accept your nomination for vice president of the United States,” Walz said to standing ovations from the crowd at a Chicago stadium hosting the Democratic National Convention.
Walz began his speech by thanking Harris for putting her trust in him and inviting him to join the campaign. He also thanked President Joe Biden for “four years of strong and historic leadership,” prompting sporadic chants from the crowd of “thanks, Joe.”
“We are all here tonight for one beautiful and simple reason: we love this country,” Walz said.
Walz described herself as “a real person who can make a real difference” and touted her advocacy for Social Security, reproductive rights and public aid for education.
«Kamala Harris is ready»
The new Democratic vice presidential nominee, the favourite of the party’s more progressive wing, said that “health care and housing are human rights.”
“It’s the final period and we’re down by one goal, but we’re attacking and we have the ball,” said the candidate, who was a teacher and American football coach and is already nicknamed ‘Coach Walz’ by his fellow believers.
“Kamala Harris is ready. Our job now, for everyone watching, is to get in the trenches and block and defend inch by inch, with every yard, with every call, with every knock on the door, with every five-dollar donation,” the governor said.
The Democratic vice presidential candidate also defended regulations on the trend of guns and recalled that he is a hunter and a much better one than many of the Republican congressmen with whom he worked for more than a decade as a legislator in Washington.
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