(The Center Square) – Democratic vice presidential nominee and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz leaned heavily into his Midwestern roots in his speech that wrapped up the third night of the Democratic National Convention Wednesday, painting the Harris-Walz ticket as pro-middle class, pro-freedom, and pro-neighborliness.
The night, themed “A fight for our freedoms,” also featured former President Bill Clinton, former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, celebrity Oprah Winfrey, and Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg as speakers on issues including the environment, abortion access, and gun violence.
“This is a big part about what this election is about: freedom. When Republicans use the word freedom, they mean that the government should be free to invade your doctor’s office, corporations free to pollute your air and water, and banks free to take advantage of customers,” Walz claimed. “But when we Democrats talk about freedom, we mean the freedom to make a better life for yourself and the people that you love, freedom to make your own healthcare decisions. And yeah, your kid’s freedom to go to school without worrying about being shot dead in the hall.”
Walz started off thanking Harris and President Joe Biden for “four years of historic leadership,” and referenced his own history serving in the National Guard for 24 years and working as a high school teacher and coach. But Walz has been widely criticized over distortiing his military record and his coaching experience.
Walz also spent 12 years in Congress and has twice been elected governor of Minnesota, where he supported expanded abortion access, taxpayer-funded school lunches for all students, and signed legislation allowing minors who identify as transgender to receive puberty blockers and gender transition surgery.
“While other states were banning books from their schools, we were banishing hunger from ours. We also protected reproductive freedom, because in Minnesota, we respect our neighbors and the personal choices they make. And even if we wouldn’t make those same choices for ourselves, we’ve got a golden rule: mind your own damn business,” Walz told the cheering crowd Wednesday.
Despite advocating for respecting personal choices, Walz has been criticized for, among other things, his COVID-era restrictions on individuals and small businesses that led to massive job losses and student learning losses.
Walz also referenced Project 2025, claiming that another Trump administration would implement extreme proposals that the Republican candidate has denied supporting.
“Some folks just don’t understand what it takes to be a good neighbor. Take Donald Trump and JD Vance – their Project 2025 will make things much, much harder for people who are just trying to live their lives,” Walz said. “And we know if these guys get back in the White House, they’ll start jacking up the cost on the middle class, they’ll repeal the Affordable Care Act, they’ll gut Social Security and Medicare, and they will ban abortion across this country.”
Trump has repeatedly denied all of these claims, pointing to 40-year high inflation under the Biden-Harris administration that still hurts middle class families, saying he’d protect Social Security and Medicare benefits despite record-high deficit spending under the current administration, and allowing states to decide their abortion policies. Trump’s vice presidential running mate, U.S. Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, denied all of Walz’ claims in an interview with Fox News after the speech.
In contrast to Trump’s agenda, which Walz called “weird, wrong, and dangerous,” the North Star State governor presented Harris as a candidate who would embody and support middle class and Midwestern values.
“If you’re a middle class family, or a family trying to get into the middle class, Kamala Harris is gonna cut your taxes. If you’re getting squeezed by prescription drug prices, Kamala Harris is gonna take on Big Pharma. If you’re hoping to buy a home, Kamala Harris is gonna help make it more affordable,” Walz said. “And no matter who you are, Kamala Harris’s gonna stand up and fight for your freedom to live the life that you want to lead. Because that’s what we want for ourselves, and it’s what we want for our neighbors.”
Housing prices have soared under the Biden-Harris administration, critics note, with interest rates on mortgages, car loans and credit card debt significantly higher than during the Trump administration.
Prominent pro-LGBT issue groups like the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation have voiced support for Walz, and more than 25 Minnesota labor unions have endorsed him.
If Walz were to become vice president, he would become the third in the ranks of vice presidents from Minnesota. Hubert Humphrey served under Lyndon B. Johnson, and Walter Mondale under Jimmy Carter.
The lies, cons, deceptions, hypocrisy, and treachery of this Lying, destructive, corrupt, treasonous, dishonest, unethical Democrat Party cabal and their useful idiot supporters know no bounds. This treasonous Democrat Party and its “useful idiot” supporters will do or say Anything to be able to dictate control, then access power and retain it by any means available. No matter the costs to the people, the government, or the nation.
This treasonous, destructive, immoral, unethical, lying, woke, DEI, socialist Democrat Party, their Democrat RINOs and their corrupt, demented, obedient sock-puppet president Joe OBiden/Harris administration has become our country’s most destructive and deadliest ENEMY!
When that phony assistant coach Walz, who steals the valor of the real head coach that led his team to a state championship started rambling how we should all win one for the truth Flipper, instead of the Gipper, I assure you when his team got down on their knees at halftime it was not in prayer, but in Dog whistled gay anxiety relief activities that result in the need for Tampon man/boy backdoor bandaging. His outright lie that Kamala took on and defeated and destroyed the border drug lords, made me wet my pants in laughter. He claims she defeated the very people who have contributed to and financed her current corrupt Presidential campaign and personal private bank accounts.
Proof of Walz’s leadership deficiency sealed the deal when we saw his unmanly sob sister son break down in false tears, while his tatoo’d mark of the beast daughter chimed in with her crocodile tears of joy. Two more Biden type children raised in the same delusionary corruption of winning their battles by the smoke of their mirrors, instead of the smoke of their rifles, which they irresponsibly toy with like a Cheney on a neighborhood dove hunt, where the real symbol of American peace and unity gets blasted out of the sky, along with the neighbor you love not as yourself, but view as just another mentally malleable useful idiot.
Hey according to Bill, Kamal spent her formative years working at McDonalds where she learned how to hide the snarfed up remaining piece of beef she bit off of under the table and then hid under her pickle, then ate half the order hidden within the bag she delivered, many fries short of a happy meal, having learned the art of social redistribution from her prime McDonalds mentor who was the Hamburgler, where he taught her the art of watering down the cokes like she waters down the truth, to hide her thefts, like an alcoholic who nips from her spouses bottle of rare wine, then fills the difference in water hoping nobody will notice. She also played tricks on her customers by packing dried coffee grounds into the shape of a hamburger, just Iike she now packages her groundless VEEP, just to watch the look on customer eyes when they finally bite into it, and get the same look WE THE PEOPLE now get when we try to swallow her lying false half-eaten promises. Bill claims she has taken on gangs trafficking across the border, but inreality, waved them in like a traffic cop, and took their money. Their promise of a Kamala breath of fresh air smells more like a fart left by a fake Bizzaro world Kamala Supergirl, inside a fixed closed-door Convention Democrat party phonebooth who enters the voting booth as a bumbling chucklehead Biden Democrat demolition derby wreck failure, and comes out looking like a shiny new powerful undamaged winning RACE car.
It amazes me how many useful’s swallow what the serial liar Waltz spews to them…. incredibly disheartening!
According to Clinton, Joe Biden voluntarily left office like George Washington? No,,He left kicking and screaming like a frightened 5 year old kid being forced to leave his protecting FBI mommy for his frightening first day in school. Washington thrice refused the crown offered by his troops, King Biden would have grasped it quicker than Napoleon who at his coronation snatched it out of the hands of the Cardinal and crowned himself emperor. Another democrat party proffered delusion illusion where the light of truth gets bent and true images distorted farther than that in a carnival mirror. Bill stated that Joe was a stark contrast to the person offered by the other party,,,,yes indeed, but that stark contrast revealed a stork deliverance of a Biden baby who grew up in mis-governance to be the twin brother of Pinocchio Obama, and Chucky doll Bill Clinton whose bride was even worse than the three of them.
Indeed Joe “kept the faith and he’s infected a lot of the rest of us.”(with Democrat Dependency STDs) And indeed Bill is “too old to guild the Lily”, but not too old to sniff the Lily along-side Joe, and make trips to Epstein’s pleasure island where like in Pinocchio’s Pleasure Island, they just wet their Lampwick’s and dunk them into lakes of misgendered democrat donkey dung.Like General MacArthur’s old soldiers who never die, they just fade away,,, so should the memory of corrupt Bill Clinton who needs take his pet Harpy home and both just fade away,,,For Good!
Its sick how many lies they shove, and the media PUSHES those lies, like gospel.
The Marxist Democrat party has down absolutely “ZERO” for the middle class since BHO won the election in 2008. Differently ZERO during the made up pandemic lock down. No wonder there are so many dem czars, preplanned restrictions set in motion. Especially by the EPA. All to ruin the middle class.
wow, trying to rush your typing , leads to errors .
The democrats including Harris Will only help the so called underprivileged. Like Biden said if you didn’t vote for him You’re not black. She will not help all people.