Donald Trump’s campaign staff has called Tim Walsh a “dangerous leftist” after it was announced that the Democratic governor of Minnesota will be Kamala Harris’ running mate in November’s election.
“Like Kamala Harris, Tim Walsh is a dangerous left-wing extremist, and Harris and Walsh’s vision” of turning the US into California is “every American’s nightmare,” Carolyn Leavitt, spokeswoman for the charity, said in a statement. of the former Republican president.
Who is Kamala Harris’s running mate?
Tim Walsh, the Democratic governor of Minnesota whom Kamala Harris chose as her running mate in November’s election, is a National Guard veteran and former educator with experience in politics after serving 12 years in the House of Representatives, although the His political career was not ordinary.
Although little known outside his home state’s borders, Walsh, 60, has come to prominence in recent weeks for his scathing comments about Donald Trump and his associates, whom he calls “weird guys.”
“We’re not afraid of weird guys,” he said at a recent campaign rally. “Trust my training experience, bullies have no power.”
Walsh is a native of Nebraska and spent many years in education, as a geography teacher and football coach. It is notable that he taught for a few months in China immediately after the Tiananmen Square events in the spring of 1989.
“Being in a Chinese high school at that critical moment seemed really important to me,” he admitted years later before a committee of the US Congress, where he had been elected for 12 years.
When he was first rumored to be running for vice president alongside Kamala Harris, some netizens wondered if the two were really the same age: a bald Tim Walsh was cited as proof to the contrary.
“I oversaw the school cafeteria for 20 years. You don’t do this job without pulling your hair out,” the 60-year-old answered with humor on the X platform.
In January 2019, Tim Walsh was elected governor of Minnesota, a state bordering Canada in the Great Lakes region. About a year later, he had to face two major crises: the Covid-19 pandemic and the death of African-American George Floyd during his violent arrest by a white police officer. Minneapolis, the largest city in the State, became the starting point of a huge movement of anti-racist protests that shook the USA for many months.
The right to abortion
Republicans accuse the governor of being “lax” on crime, while Democrats praise him for his work protecting abortion rights. Following the June 2022 Supreme Court ruling that struck down the constitutionality of this right at the federal level, Tim Walsh vowed that his state would become a sanctuary for women seeking abortions. A clinic located in neighboring North Dakota – where the law is much stricter – moved across the border to Minnesota.
In March 2024 Walsh attended Kamala Harris’ visit to an abortion clinic – the first visit by a US vice president to such a medical facility.
Walsh championed women’s reproductive rights but also showed conservative leanings when he represented a rural Minnesota district in the House, a former Republican stronghold: he championed the interests of farmers and supported gun ownership.
Critical state
Minnesota is a state that traditionally votes Democratic but is also close to Wisconsin and Michigan, two swing states that are considered critical to the election of the next president. Walsh has the ability to appeal to white rural voters who in recent years have largely supported Republican Donald Trump. Harris’ staff also hopes that Walsh’s National Guard career, his successful run as a high school football coach and his funny videos will appeal to voters who are wavering on whether to send Trump back to the White House.
Recently, Walsh also disputed claims by Trump and his running mate, J.K. D. Vance, for their dedication to the “middle class”. “They talk about the middle class all the time. A capitalist real estate agent and venture capitalist trying to tell us they understand who we are? They don’t know who we are,” he said in an interview with MSNBC.
Walsh is Lutheran and has two children with his wife, Gwen Whipple, to whom he has been married since 1994.
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