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[ cheers and applause ] good evening, philadelphia! good evening! good evening everyone! good evening! oh, it is good to be back in pennsylvania!

so let me say, on behalf of myself and the first second gentleman of the united states, my husband, doug emhoff, thank you for the warm welcome. and let me just say it is good to be here with all of the friends, all of the leaders who are here. i want to thank the former governor ed rendell. senator bob casey who we will reelect this november! senator john fetterman. major parker.

mayor parker. and chairman jamie harrison. and it is so good to be here with your incredible governor josh shapiro. and i will say josh is a dear, dear friend and extraordinary leader. me and i have been spending a lot of time together over the years and i said josh, look, i'm so, so invested in our friendship and doing this together because together with josh shapiro, we will win pennsylvania. we will win pennsylvania. and i thank you josh. i thank you.

so, philadelphia, i launched my campaign for the president of the united states a mere who weeks ago. two week ago and it has been a whirlwind. and the democrats to the national convention finished voting and so, i stand before you today to proudly announce i am now officially the democratic nominee for president of the united states. and so now we have some work to do. we need to move to the general

election and win that. and to all the friends we as need to level set. we are the underdogs in this race. but we have the momentum and i know exactly what we are up against. now many of you know before i was elected vice president or elected a united states senator i was an elected attorney general and before that, elected district attorney. and before that i was a courtroom prosecutor. so in those roles, i took on perpetrators of all kinds.

predators who abused women. fraudsters who scammed consumers. cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain. so hear me when i say i know donald trump's type. so, but, let me just say. let me say. hold on. hold on. hold on.

this campaign, our campaign, is not just a fight against donald trump. our campaign, this campaign, is a fight for the future. it is a fight for the future. and pennsylvania, we fight for a future with affordable housing, affordable health care, affordable child care. paid leave. we fight for a future where we build a broad based economy. where every american has the opportunity to own a home. to start a business. and to build wealth. we fight for future where we bring down prices that are still too high. and lower the cost of living

for america's families. so that they have a chance not just to get by, but to get ahead. we fight for a future where we defend our most fundamental freedoms. the freedom to vote. the freedom to be safe from gun violence. the freedom to love who you love openly and with pride. and, the freedom of a woman to make decisions about her own body. not having the government tell her what to do.

i love you too. so, here's the thing. here's the thing. since the day that i announced my candidacy, i set out to find a partner who can help build this brighter future. a leader who will help unite our nation and move us forward. a fighter for the middle class. a patriot who believes as i do in the extraordinary promise of america.

a promise of freedom, opportunity, and justice, not just for some, but for all. so pennsylvania i'm here today because i found such a leader. governor tim walz of the great state of minnesota. so to those who know him the best. to those who know him the best. tim is more than a governor. to his wife, he is a husband. to his kids, hope and gus, he

is a dad. to his fellow veterans, he is sergeant major walz. to the people of southern minnesota for 12 years, he was congressman. to his former high school students, he was mr. walz. and to his former high school football players he was coach.

and in 91 days, the nation will know coach walz by another name, vice president of the united states! so america, for some folks they are just now getting coach walz's story. he is the proud product of a middle class family in rural nebraska. he is a veteran who served our nation in uniform more than two decades as a member of the army national guard. and he went to college on the

gi bill. he is someone who long before he entered politics worked as a teacher. when coach walz and his wife gwynn moved to minnesota nearly 30 years ago, they both took jobs at the local high school. coach walls taught social studies. gwynn taught english. after school, tim was the linebacker's coach for the football team. where i have heard the stories about he had a knack for using the game of football to teach

life lessons. he saw the potential in kids who sometimes didn't even see it in themselves. under those friday night lights, coach walz motivated his players to believe they could achieve anything. and together, they defy the odds. going from a winless record to the school's first ever state championship.

coach. coach. and, i'll say and i will add tim wasn't only a role model on the football field. coach walz was approached by a student in his social studies class. one of the first openly gay students at the school and was hoping to start a gay straight alliance. at a time when acceptance was difficult to find for lgbtq students, tim knew the signal it would send to have a football coach get involved. so he signed up to be the

group's faculty adviser. and as students have said, he made the school a safe place for everybody. in the high school yearbook, the students voted coach walz, the quote most inspiring faculty member. and as i think everyone here can see, tim walz was the kind of teacher and mentor that every child in america dreams of having and that every kid deserves. the kind of coach because he is the kind of person who makes people feel like they belong

and then inspires them to dream big. and that is the kind of vice president he will be. and that's the kind of vice president that america deserves. so it was coach walz's students who actually helped him decide to run for office. and he served 12 years in congress. representing a purple district as he reached across the aisle to get things done. he was the highest ranking, he was the highest ranking enlisted man to ever serve in the united states congress. and the top democrat on the

veteran's committee. and he was known as one of capitol hill's best marksmen, winning a bipartisan sharp shooting contest year after year. in washington, tim worked to raise the minimum wage. to protect the freedom of workers to join a union. and he cast one of the critical votes to pass the affordable care act. which of course gave health insurance to tens of millions

of americans. i'll tell you when we win, tim and i will continue to make the affordable care act even stronger. now, let's talk about what we are dealing with on the other side. so on that last topic if donald trump gets the chance, he will fend the affordable care act. and take us back to a time when insurance companies have the power to deny people with preexisting conditions. you remember what that was like?

children with asthma. breast cancer survivors. grandparents with diabetes. well governor walz and i will not let that happen. because we believe health care should be a right and not just a privilege for those who can afford it. as governor tim has continued to fight for working families. he secured paid leave for workers in minnesota. and he refused as governor to allow any student in their public schools to go hungry. so he made school breakfast and

lunch free for every child. tim walz and i agree about many things including when our middle class is strong, america is strong. ica is strong. and strengthening the middle class will be my defining goal as i am president of the united states. so pennsylvania, ours is a fight for the future of the middle class. and, it is a fight for freedom. in this moment, we are witnessing a full on attack against hard fought hard won

freedoms and rights. take reproductive freedom. now think about this. donald trump said he wants to punish women. as a result of his actions today in america, one out of three women live in a state where the trump abortion ban. one out of three. some of these bans go back to 1800s. even before women had a right to vote. think about that. tim and i have a message for trump and others who want to turn back the clock on our fundamental freedoms. we are not going back.

so let me say about tim walz, he has shown up to stand against these attacks long before he stood on the stage with me. after roe was overturned he was the first governor in the country to sign a new law that enshrined reproductive freedom as a fundamental right. with tim walz by my side i am president of the united states and we win majorities in congress, we will pass a bill to restore reproductive freedom

and i will proudly sign it into law. tim walz has also defended the sacred freedom to vote. as governor, he signed the most significant expansion of voting rights in minnesota in over 50 years. and with governor walz's help, we will pass the john lewis rights act and the freedom to vote act. we are going to get it done. so tim is a hunter. and a gun owner who believes as the majority of gun owners do

that we need reasonable gun safety laws in america. so as governor, he expanded background checks. and increased penalties for illegal firearm sales. and together when we win in november, we are finally going to pass universal background checks, red flag laws, and an assault weapons ban. through his work, he really does shine a light on a brighter future.

that we can build together. in his state, he has been a model chief executive and with his experience, i'm telling you, tim walz will be ready on day one. in fact, when you compare his resume. shall we? to trump's running mate. well, well, well, some might say it's like, it's like a matchup between the varsity team and the jv squad.

so pennsylvania, ultimately in this election, we each face a question. what kind of country do we want to live in? a country of freedom, compassion, and rule of law. or a country of chaos, fear, and hate. and here is the beauty of our democracy. we each have the power to answer that question. we each have the power to answer that question. the power is with the people.

we love our country and i believe it is the highest form of patriotism to fight for the ideals of our country. that is how we preserve the promise of america. and after all, the promise of america is what makes it possible for two middle class kids. one a daughter of oakland, california. who was raised by a working mother. the other, a son of the nebraska plains who grew up

working on a farm. it's the promise of america. because only in america, only in america is it possible for them together to make it all the way to the white house. only in america. only in america. only in america. that's right. that's right. that's right. so coach walz and i may hail from different corners of our great country, but our values

are the same and we both believe in lifting people up, not knocking them down. we both know the vast majority of people in our country have so much more in common than what separates themselves. when we look at folks we see in our fellow americans neighbors, not enemies. not enemies. so my promise to you is this. our campaign will reach out to everyone. from red states to blue states. from the heart land to the coast in rural urban suburban

and tribal communities. we are running a campaign on behalf of all americans. and when elected we will govern on behalf of all americans. and so with tim walz by my side and with all of you at our side, let us fight for the promise of our future. and with that, i ask pennsylvania, are you ready to make your voices heard? do we believe in freedom? do we believe in opportunity? do we believe in the promise of

america? and are we ready to fight for it? and when we fight, we win! and now, welcome the next vice president of the united states, tim walz! wow! thank you. wow. thank you philadelphia. thank you madame vice president for the trust you put in me.

but maybe more so, thank you for bringing back the joy. aisle thrilled to be on this journey with you and doug. this incredible journey. pennsylvania, i know you love this, but my god, what a treasure you have in josh shapiro. holy hell can this guy bring the fire. he can bring the fire. this is a visionary leader. i also have to tell you, everybody in america knows when you need a bridge fixed, call that guy. and i think sometimes we forget and you see people a little one dimensional. but seeing a guy who cares so

deeply about his family. a man with compassion, vision, and i'll have to tell you this, i know this from experience. there is no one you would rather go to a springstein concert in jersey with than him. than that guy. oops. and i can't wait for all of you. and america to get to know my incredible wife gwynn. a 29 year public school educator. don't ever underestimate teachers. and our two beautiful kids, hope and gus. i couldn't be prouder to be on this ticket. and to help vice president harris become what we all know

is very, very good for us to think about. next president of the united states of america. from her first day as a prosecutor. as a district attorney. attorney general of the great state of california. a united states senator, and vice president of the united states, vice president harris has fought on the side of the american people. she took on the predators, she took on the fraudsters. she took down the transnational gangs, she stood up against powerful corporate interests and she never hesitated to

reach across the aisle if it meant improving people's lives. and i want all of you to know this. she does it all with a sense of joy. i know a little something about that commitment to people. i was born in west point, nebraska. i lived in butte. a small town of 400. where community was a way of life. growing up i spent the summers working on the family farm. my mom and dad taught us, show generosity toward your neighbors and work for a common good. my dad served in the army during the korean war. with his encouragement at 17, i joined the army national guard.

for 24 years i proudly wore the uniform of this nation. the national guard gave me purpose. it gave me the strength of a shared commitment. to something greater than ourselves. and just as it did for my dad. and millions of others, the gi bill gave me a shot at a college education. my dad was a teacher. my brothers and sisters and i followed in his footsteps. three out of four of us married teachers. what we did for nearly 20 years i had the privilege of teaching high school social studies and

coaching football. including winning that state championship. don't ever close the yearbook. but it was my students. they encouraged me to run for office. they saw in me what i was hoping to instill in them. a commitment of common good. a belief that one person can make a difference. so in 2006, 2006, i took a leap and i ran for congress. and because high school teachers are super optimistic i was running in a district that had one democrat since 1892. well, my neighbors graced me with an opportunity to represent them in the united states house of

representatives. i'm proud of the work we did there together. i worked across the aisle on veteran's issues, agriculture, and rural economies. i learned the art of compromise without compromising my values. and now, as governor of the great state of minnesota i bring those experiences to bear in tackling the challenges that are facing our great state. minnesota strength comes from our values. our commitment to working together. to seeing past our differences, to always being willing to lend a helping hand. those are the same values i learned on the family farm and tried to instill in my students. i took it to congress. and to the state capitol. and now, vice president harris and i are running to take those very values to the white house.

now, donald trump sees the world a little differently than us. first of all he doesn't know the first thing about service. he doesn't have time for it because he is too busy serving himself. again and again and again. trump weakens our economy to strengthen his own hand. he mocks our laws. he sows chaos and division. and that is to say nothing of his record as president. he froze in the face of the

covid crisis. he drove our economy into the ground. and make no mistake, violent crime was up under donald trump. that is not even counting the crimes he committed. >> you know, some of us, some of us. some us in here are old

enough to remember. some of us are old enough to remember. when it was republicans talking about freedom. it turns out now, what they meant was the government should be free to invade your doctor's office. and minnesota, we respect our neighbors and their personal choices they make. even if we wouldn't make the same choice for ourselves, there's a golden rule. mind your own business. these guys are after my heart. that feels good. thank you. that includes ivf and this gets

personal for me and my family. when my wife and i decided to have children, we spent years going through infertility treatments and i remember praying every night for a call for good news. the pit in my stomach when the phone rang and the agony when we heard the treatments hadn't worked. so it wasn't by chance when we welcomed our daughter into the world, we named her hope. when the vice president and i talk about freedom, we mean the freedom to make your own health care decisions. and for our children to be free to go to school without worrying they will be shot dead in their classrooms.

by the way as you heard, i was one of the best shots in congress. but in minnesota, we believe in the second amendment but we also believe in common sense gun violence laws. vice president harris' idea of freedom is a ticket for education to be that ticket to the middle class. not crippling debt. air that is clean. water that is pure. communities that are safe. a place where we settle our political differences not with violence but with our votes. and that's what this election is about. what direction will this

country go in? we're not going back. well donald trump would sure take us backwards, let's be clear about that. and don't believe him when he plays dumb. he knows exactly what project 2025 will do to restrict our freedoms. to rig the economy to help the super rich. if trump gets a chance to return, he's going to pick up exactly where he left off four years ago. only this time, it will be much, much worse. raising costs on middle class family. he will repeal the affordable care act. no doubt about it. he will gut social security and

medicare. and when somebody tells you, they believe him. he said he would ban abortion across the country. and he will do it. whether congress is there or not. donald trump is not fighting for you or your family. he never sat at that kitchen table like the one i was at wondering how to pay the bills. he set his country club up in mar-a-lago wondering how to cut taxes for his rich friends. and i got to tell you. his running mate shares his dangerous and backward ayenta for this country. backward aagenda for this country. jd vance was the architect.

like all the people i group up with in the heart land, jd went to yale. wrote a best seller trashing that community. come on, that's not what middle america is. and i have to tell you, i can't wait to debate the guy. that is if he is willing to get off the couch and show up. you see what i did there.

i got to tell you, winning out, just an observation of mine that i made. i have to say it. you know it. you feel it. these guys are creepy and yes. just weird as hell. that's what you see. that's what you see. so you know it's out there, so say it with me. we aren't going back. we are not going back. we are not going back. so we got 91 days. my god, that's easy. we'll sleep when we're dead.

over those next 91 days and every day in the white house. i'll have vice president harris' back. every single day. and we'll have yours. you know how this works. go over to kamalaharris.com. get on board. because we need you. freedom to make our own choices. this leader. this compassionate, careful, joyous leader believes in each and every one of you.

my god, you came here tonight. you said you love this country and you are not coming back. going back. she believes in the opportunity for every single person to join the middle class. she believes in the promise of america. we just got to fight. we just got to fight. because as soon to be president harris says, when we fight, we win! thank you philadelphia. thank you vice president, god bless america!

the democratic presidential ticket. vice president kamala harris. her newly announced running mate, the governor of minnesota, tim walz. their respective spouses. america's first ever second gentleman doug emhoff. and gwynn walz. 29 year public school educator in minnesota.

they are speaking at a capacity crowd. might be a beyond capacity crowd at temple university in philadelphia. campaign tells us there are more than 12,000 people. at this event. you know we are not going back. before the two of them spoke, this crowd went absolutely bananas for josh shapiro who came very close to being named the vice presidential running mate himself. the crowd went bananas as shapiro gave a rip roaring speech before this very, very fired up crowd. then the nominee herself, kamala harris gave remarks in detail introducing america to a figure popular in his home state, but not widely known outside of it. vast majority of americans saying today in the instant polling then upon his

selection, as her vice presidential running mate, vast majority of americans say they don't have an opinion of him because they do not know him. she taking the time today in her remarks to introduce him in detail and then her newly announced running mate himself giving the kind of speech that shows why she picked him. two of them together appearing as a ticket for the first time right now. they will do multiple swing states in a fast moving very condensed tour for the rest of this week including in wisconsin and michigan tomorrow. multiple swing states before the end of this workweek. tim walz was born in small town nebraska. grew up on a family farm. his father was in the army. he would lose his father when he was only 19 years old. his father died of lung cancer. walz himself enlisted at 17 and served 24 years in the national guard. he retired at command sergeant major.

that is a big deal. he would become the highest ranking enlisted soldier ever to serve in the united states congress. while he was there, he chaired the veteran's affairs committee. before he got to congress, he spent several years teaching high school social studies and teaching high school football. he took his high school football team from winning precisely zero games. what's the opposite of undefeated? but they were that. so winning the state championship for the first time in the school's history in his remarks today. governor walz expressing uncontrollable pride in that fact saying never close that yearbook. he served 12 years in congress. he was elected in a rural, relatively conservative district in minnesota. one he said that had been represented by a democrat precisely once since the 1890s before he won that street as a democrat. he ousted an incumbent

republican in order to get that seat. he was reelected five times. after he left that seat in congress to run for governor in minnesota, it went back to being a republican controlled seat. when he was elected governor in minnesota in 2018, he won by a lot. he won by more than 10 points. when he ran for reelection four years later in 2022, he not only won by a lot again, but when he was reelected as governor of minnesota in 2022, democrats also held onto the state house, they took over the state senate. that won the democrats a trifecta in minnesota government for the first time in a decade. having that trifecta in minnesota state governor allowed him as governor of that state to start rising as a democratic star with what will eventually be a national profile. his rise in national democratic politics, we saw the strength of his i think perceived moderation. particularly as a member of

congress. coupled with what he was able to get passed in policies but also his personality. his practicality. his likability. his appeal to all sorts of different constituencies. cross party appeal in his purple state. his record as minnesota governor includes extending background checks for gun purchases and a red flag law includes passing paid family medical leave. free breakfast and lunch to all minnesota school kids. protecting abortion rights as soon as roe v. wade was overturned by the supreme court. by donald trump's appointees on the supreme court. tim walz signed a law in minnesota to codify in that state the protections of roe v. wade into state law. and now he is kamala harris' running mate. the campaign says that they have raised thus far already

more than $20 million today just since kamala harris announced his place on the ticket. former president barack obama praising tim walz as harris' quote ideal partner. watching these remarks tonight from the nominee, from presidential nominee, vice president harris, and from her running mate selection tim walz, i do think that we are seeing another no drama moment in the democratic party. i don't think there are aggrieved constituencies mad about this happening. there are people pulling for people on that short list. but i think tonight, he is showing what he bring to the table. what he brings to the ticket. >> yeah. today marks kamala harris' first big decision which she would carry four years into the presidency and it went really well. the decision looks good on substance and the speech was a home run. there were times when you just

need a whisky. we have all had those times covering the news cycles. but there are other times. >> go ahead. >> there are other times where the best thing for you is some gatorade and a good long run. and i think the party has had these debates and these moments and these freak-outs but harris is handing off, this is america's dad. america's football coach. >> she called him coach walz. >> america's teacher. and the teacher that is cool enough without trying to be cool. but then when people are i was reading about this today and it came up on the stage. when people are singling out other classmates because of their identity or who they are, this is the person who comes in and leads. that is actually really cool. cool in a deeper way. and you get this impression

from him. this is someone who accorded himself tremendously well. and that gatorade and that run and that healthy uplifting vibe. his record, liberal without being strident. strong without being overly bombastic. kind in the traditional sense of the world. and this is i don't really do dog whistles so i swear this is not a dog whistle but you got a reminder of why this is not a coastal big state blue state ticket. yes, he is from a blue state. but we talked about the district he is from and the way he represents which has a heart land thing going on. heart land is not necessarily left or right. so you are reminded why kamala harris' first big decision, whatever you heard about me, i know how to get things done. i know how to lead. i'm bringing on someone from another background that doesn't mean compromising on your core

beliefs either. >> i think you just learn politics in the rooms you are in. and comedians talk about the room. you are given jokes and the people are in that room and you do it over and over and you find out what hits and what doesn't. we have seen donald trump do that with his crowd. that is a collaboration between donald trump and the maga faithful. >> that is how he learns his policies. >> that's how he learns what they are. and this is a guy whose room has been, he has been working as a teacher in a rural school district. and then in the state of minnesota, statewide level, and again, a state that is a blue state. but can be a battleground state. donald trump came very close to yoinking it away in 2016. i think you get this from him and josh shapiro does as well. this is barack obama's 2004 convention speech. just like patriotic pluralism. a vision of an inclusive

society where we stand up to bullies and look out for people and we are all bound together and we mind our own business and that is a way of talking about a certain set of what to me are genuine liberal policies in an open hearted way that is not wrapped up in hard to understand jargon. and i think he just does it real well. >> so, in 2008, working for the mccain campaign, you watch the obama campaign and there's just something cellular about momentum and winning. and they have this cellular winningness going on. and you brought up the whiskey and i think we were all together five-and-a-half weeks ago covering the debate. it was the moment, you were the first to come on the air. it was brutal. i think we should be as unsparing with what we are seeing here. it is the vibe of winning.

it is momentum, pure and simple. vice president kamala harris is not flawless. i don't think she would say she is flawless, but she is running a flawless campaign. she has not made one single mistake. and i think democrats like to say but she will. she might not. republicans have nominated trump three times. she is running a flawless campaign and this choice even eight hours ago wasn't as obvious as it is now. he made a couch joke for pete's sake. for all the universality of his appeal. he is also unafraid. they are unapologetic in their sort of policies and morals and the things they can fight for. but they are totally approachable. they have plenty of neighbors that wear maga hats and he picks up their paper and brings it to their door and they are his friends and there has been

a hunger for that. and i think she had another, winning also, is about stringing together one good news cycle after one good news cycle and she has done that every single day. includes today. >> absolutely. the line i wrote down from coach walz, thank you for bringing back the joy. >> that was his opening line. >> and i think that is part of what it is. i have gotten so many text messages from people who have been locked in this cycle of terror and fear about what is to come. this fear of fashionism that is legitimate. >> that is private, joy! sorry. i'm sorry. >> i can't with you. i can't. but the reality is i think a

lot of people have forgotten how fun campaigns can be. i actually enjoyed working on campaigns back in the day. because there was something about it that was the civic mindedness of it. the camaraderie of it. and the certain aspect of it that is fun though the stakes are big. and i think that with donald trump, he's got this kind of stale act that isn't new. it isn't fresh. he is doing the same he did in 2016 and 2020. it is wrapped up in the things he wants to do to us. they want to drag us back to the 1950s . they want women to get married and have babies and they want ten-year-olds to have kids. he wants ten-year-olds to have lunch. it is a simple midwestern values thing that president obama and barack obama did in his campaign. you can see he is an exotic figure. trump is again using his whole middle name. but you know what he is? a normal guy you would play basketball with. so is this guy and that is a

powerful thing people forget. it works. it works for joe biden. he said i will just bring back normal. i will not do all these wild things. i don't poo in a gold toilet. this is like comfortable, normal and joyful. >> if you look at for americans discovering there is a person named tim walz today which is a huge portion. >> just to be clear. >> huge portion of democrats. they are learning this is a guy who is a straight white guy from the midwest who talks like he is from minnesota because he is from minnesota. he grew up on a farm. his dad was in the army. he did 24 years in the national guard. a command sergeant major which is a big freaking deal. a high school social studies teacher. his wife was the english teacher. he was the football coach. he ran in a conservative district. seen as a centrist.

had an a rating from the nra and was the champion congressional sharp shooter and when parkland happened, when the parkland shooting happened and his daughter was 17 years old and he is a lifelong gun owner, he decides he needs to evolve on that issue and decides he will pass common sense gun safety laws. what does he do running for governor that year? he makes that change and then he turns around and he donates to charity every dollar the nra had ever donated to him over the course of his career when he was an a rated nra democratic moderate from a red leaning district. now he has an f. and he wears it as a badge of honor. >> what the harris campaign is saying. what she is saying with this, is this is america and it is inviting.

we talked about the zoom calls which can be different constituency groups. it is half a joke but also very real. and you are bringing these people together. democrats spent many years on defense on so-called conservative issues including national security. or safety. or wearing a darn flag pin. i'm all for celebrating america in i way you choose, but all of the right wing flag pin theater is very different from what harris is saying today is this is also america but it has certain values and you can have compromise orientation without compromising your values. it is different than it being right wing performative. >> who is weirder? if you are debating whether you are weirder or they are

weirder, he is what jd vance pretends to be. >> the other thing is because the country is not particularly divided on abortion, 76% of americans thought roe was properly decided. all the republicans have had the last ten years is cultural division. he erases it all in a 40 minute speech. gone. >> i think, watching the democratic party work through itself in the last three weeks or so, again, i keep coming back to this motion of pluralism. when you talk about there are different constituencies, democracy is about attaching across all the lines of difference. we are trying to build a multiracial democracy. we have only been one since the voting rights act. it's so hard to do. they fall apart left and right. and here you have this moment

on stage. parents both immigrants. from different traditions. she grows up in oakland. he is from a totally different part of america. and, there they are on stage like stitching together this coalition that is the pro democracy coalition, got all different lines. >> the word for that is diversity. >> that's what it is. >> we are different types of people from different places who share the values that we all have an equal say and all try to do the best for our families. senior senator from minnesota is amy klobuchar. she is good friends with the new vice presidential pick on the democratic side. and it is not just from their time serving in government together in minnesota. their families go way back. senator klobuchar's husband is from the same town where

governor walz used to teach high school. on new year's day this year, the klobuchars hosted tim and gwynn walz at their house for lunch. when governor walz's son gus was born, amy klobuchar's mother-in-law brought the walz family a chicken parm dinner. in other words, they are close. joining us now is democratic senator amy klobuchar. thanks for being here. it's a pleasure to have you here. >> thanks for giving me the street creds from the heart land. i loved your remark about the whiskey. if we are downing a whiskey, it is out of celebration, he did it in a room full of philadelphia eagles fans. he walked there as a major vikings fan and they embraced him. he did it without a cookie cutter speech. his acknowledgment of his respect and friendship with josh shapiro, josh shapiro's beautiful speech before that.

laid to rest some of the disunity arguments. and his genuine love for the vice president and the way he took down donald trump. we know he took a winless high school football team and made it into a state champion. >> let's pretend we are not on tv. i would say, so, senator klobuchar, because even if we were not on tv, i would call you that. senator klobuchar, tell me what tim walz is really like. i know what his persona is as a politician. i have watched his speeches. i have watched his key press conferences. i have watched him on tv making the case. what is he like as a guy? what would you tell me if we

weren't on tv? >> what i think a number of you would like, he is good with strong women. gwynn is a really strong woman. his lieutenant governor is strong abandoned addiction he has worked with me well. if he thinks he did something wrong, he will call you and say it. he is blunt and to the point. secondly, you see how kind he is. he is someone that genuinely cares about people. when i found out i had breast cancer and announced it, he was one of the first people to call me. that is why he is able to bring independents, moderate republicans and democrats into this strong coalition. and then you just see a different guy standing up there as a candidate. it shows kamala harris' strength that she says this is a good guy. and a strong guy. the fact that he is the winner

of the sharp shooter contest in congress, great. the fact he stood in a deer stand in minnesota in 10-degree winters for hours, great. the fact he stood up for gun safety and he has stood up for lunches and breakfasts for school, that is great. you see someone who gets the mission. the fact he was so fluid and ad libbed. didn't act nervous. didn't act scared or scripted. that is quite amazing and extraordinary for a first major rally like that. i know. i have been at these things and he is able to go out there and be himself which i think is the first test of any candidate off the grid and he passed with flying colors. >> we talk about the fact so many americans are learning about him for the first time. they are learning it is pronounced walz and not waltz. so people are learning the

first things about him. and there is sort of a race to define him. particularly by the republicans. by his opponents. you heard democrats marvel he is a choice to unify the democratic coalition. moderates. there is a lot in his record that suggests moderation. but also progressives. outspoken support from people like bernie sanders and aoc. you are hearing on democratic side, this very balanced perspective on where people should put him. saying for the americans hearing the descriptions and caricatures of him, how do you see him in terms of where he falls on the line between conservative and liberal?

>> as a moderate, and someone who has been attacked for that, let me make the case, his congressional district. he is the second democrat in 100 years to win it and he won it over and over again. part of that is he didn't shy away from his votes for the affordable care act. he went out and did town hall meetings with a former republican senator who he recently lost. and they did it together and they stood up for the affordable care act. tim walz did that. he is someone that says what he thinks. i think america has seen that. if you have seen him on television, the last few weeks, he is not afraid of to do that. we need more of that in our politicians and not less. and he is someone who reaches out. he was on a mission when he signed up as age 17 as many do in the heart land. he was on a mission when he taught his kids and brought those kid along with him and his football team and he was on

a mission when he governed our state during the pandemic. when you have a clear north star to follow, like tim walz had, all this criticism and saying you are too right and too left, it just fades away because you know you are doing it for the right reason. >> senator klobuchar, if vice president harris and governor walz are elected in november, and they become the president and vice president of the united states, you are going to be among one of the best connected people in american politics because of your friendship with both of these leaders. and your own leadership in the state of minnesota. are you going to stay in the senate or want to be secretary of state or something? >> i am in the senate. and actually, i'm going to farm fest tomorrow morning. you may not be there, rachel, in southern minnesota but i'm doing my job and i look forward to working with both of these. as both of them pointed out, it

is 90 days. 90 days of hard work. 90 days and you can put anything aside during that time and get to work. and that is our message right now. that this is for the soul of our nation. this is for the future of our nation. and i just love that we have this new joy and new zest with this team and i just can't wait for the convention and to get through november. but we will do this as those pointed out, with positivity. and we will have some fun along the way. he is someone who loves to campaign and have fun and joke around and i can't wait to bring that back into our politics. as you can see from some of his jokes today, he is more than ready to take on jd vance in his own terms. >> absolutely. i don't even know how to talk about the couch line yet. >> we are not going there. we are not going there.

>> thank you. senator amy klobuchar, great to have you. much appreciated. thank you. lawrence o'donnell. what did you make of the rollout of tim walz and kamala harris today for the first time? >> about the couch line. >> oh god. >> i have nothing so say about it. because the perfection of the line is people who get it get it and it still makes sense to people who don't. so i have been not realizing this. but i have been sitting around american politics and the spectator section mostly most of my life. waiting for the democrats to actually have a message on the issue of abortion. something other than this term pro choice which okay. i get it. all the language that has been a kind of stiff language around

it. they have it. it's mind your own business and they just got it from their vice presidential nominee and not a single politician in the history of the subject has ever come close to that particular message on that crucial issue which is more crucial in this election than in any election we have ever had before. he found it. and everybody was searching for it for decades. there were word smiths hired. is there a way to say this? is there some plain spoken way to say this? well, the high school teacher football coach is going to come up with it for you. >> and the crowd immediately shouts mind your own business. >> it will go all the way across the bumper. that is the most astonishing single phrase contribution i have ever seen of vice presidential candidate

contribute to a campaign. if you think about what did the vice presidential candidates say in any election. most of the time you can't think of a single word they said. this is a remarkable start for someone who has not been on the national stage tonight. the democrats have never chosen a vice presidential nominee who hasn't been on the national stage before. kamala harris ran for president. joe biden ran against her. joe biden ran for president. john edwards, joe lieberman. al gore. these were all national reputation democrats before you ever heard them open their mouths as a vice presidential nominee. this is the first time we have

seen this. >> i have been on this text change for the last couple of days with fellow d triple c congressional alumni from 2006. which is the year that tim walz was elected. >> that was part of the democratic national party. >> that year was the year that rob emanuel was the chair and we wanted to win back the house. tim walz was running in this race. and watching this was just a reminder that sometimes you overcomplicate politics right? you overcomplicate. the last couple of days, weeks, all of our friends, people were texting with have their white boards. how will this help us electorally? what will happen here? it is really about how you make people feel. maybe he was their kid's

teacher and i think that is part of why vice president harris picked him. how he made her feel. watching him today, that is how he made people in the crowd field. it is really who can connect. >> some of the policies stand alone. he is a likable person. i am not just talking midwesterner, i mean the utter humorlessness of donald trump. right? and we saw a little bit of this with the republicans trying to make it a negative thing about kamala harris.

they are set out to be a research project to see if there is tape of donald trump laughing ever. the instant response from the trump campaign is tim walz will unleash hell on america! and it's so funny. i have a friend i was texting with at the time who came out and said tim walls is so funny. if he is good at this, he will release a recipe for a hot dish. that is called unleash held. he punctures the humorlessness of trump. >> i will put sort of nominate for second place his contributions to the trump frame. i think he is scary. he is turning doj into something it has never been. he talks about shrinkage.

he talks about shrinking trump. and trump probably at some level likes that we are all afraid of him. likes that we cover what he is going to do. that is his power. walz has talk about the need to shrink him. bring him down to size. sort of stat there through all 11 hours of it. he brings him right down to earth. and sort of a political gravitational way. >> he said it himself. he said in the speech, the talk in which, the interview in which he said they are period. he said they have no real power. and that is the only power they have. they are also just weird.

and you said wait a minute, the way we have been thinking about trump and his power, he doesn't have it yet. at the moment, he is just like a weird guy in mar-a-lago with classified documents in the bathroom that has this odd friend that wants to. >> ban birth control. >> and he hates women with cats and no kids? what are you doing? you are making a demon out of unmarried women with pets. so bizarre. beyond the fact they have project 2025. that if enacted would turn the whole country into mississippi. they are a bunch of weird, angry, humorless men who don't seem to like anybody else. >> and tim walz walls them off from the supporters. he makes clear he is just talking about the candidate. >> that's right. it turns out having the skills

of having managed a high school lunchroom for 20 years turns out to be exactly the right skills to bring to bear against running a campaign against that particular republican. a historic night. really important night in the 2024 election. the democratic ticket is now set. there is a lot more to say about it. a lot more people to talk to. stay with us. don't go anywhere. >> and now, welcome the next vice president of the united states, tim walz. united states, tim walz. ♪ (music plays) ♪ from this can't miss moment... ...to this hello new grandpa moment... ...to that whatever this is moment. your moments are worth protecting against rsv. if you're 75 or older or 60 or older

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office. in minnesota, we respect our neighbors and their personal choices that they make. even if we wouldn't make the same choice for ourselves, there is a golden rule. mind your own business. these guys are off my heart. that feels good. thank you. >> in that moment, seeing vice president harris be like oh yeah, i picked the right guy. this is good. the harris walz campaign rally. pennsylvania of course is a critical part of their path to winning the white house. they held their first rally tonight in philadelphia, pennsylvania, pennsylvania seemed quite happy to have

them. pennsylvania state representative malcolm tweeted this picture of governor tim walz today. look how happy the pig looks holding a baby pig in a state fair. he wrote i personally look forward to seeing tim walz at every pennsylvania state fair his schedule will allow. joining us now is the pennsylvania state rep malcolm. he is now running for general in the great commonwealth of pennsylvania. representative, great to see you. thank you so much for being here. >> happy to be with you. >> you have seen a lot of politics in your young life. what is your assessment of the reception that pennsylvania and philadelphia tonight gave to the ticket, gave to governor walz who a lot of people are meeting for the first time this very evening? >> the last time a presidential candidate tried to do a rally

like this, in my district here, the seats were just as empty as his promises . tonight, what you saw was a fired up crowd of people who heard not just a campaign message. but they heard a vision for a future in this country where every single person can be treated with dignity and respect. where you can have a job that pays you a dignified wage. be treated, given benefits if you happen to be hurt at that job. know you are not lying to your kids when you look them in the eyes and tell them the future is going to be a little bit better for them than it was for the last generation. what we have seen, with obama, we heard a message of hope an change. with president biden, we heard about restoring the soul of america. with tim walz and kamala harris, what we are hearing from this vice president and future president is a message of freedom and joy. that is what you saw in this rally today. so much joy.

>> the polls in pennsylvania show essentially a tied race. a very tight race. between the democratic and republican tickets. a lot of people looking at the importance of pennsylvania. looking at the tightness of the polls in pennsylvania. thought that was a good reason to put governor josh shapiro on the ticket. he was not chosen as the running mate. but he gave a speech that took the bark off the trees. what do you make about the prospects for harris and walls in pennsylvania, how those might have changed since president biden abandoned his reelection bid. but also, since this new running mate has been announced? >> this is like how do you pick an ice cream scoop. the vice president had a ton of good options but only she could answer the question about who she needed to help her advance a bold agenda to make life

better for people. but what i'm excited about in this entire process is that the entire country got to see the bench of democratic rock stars and of true american statesmen who are doing important things. listen, i'm excited that folks got to know josh shapiro who is my good friend. we just passed a budget, the single larger budget k-12 history. how we deal with pharmacy benefit managers. a complicate thing to say. we will lower the cost of prescription drugs in pennsylvania. we are making so there are feminine hygiene products in all of our schools. kids can get a free lunch. a lot of people got to hear that. but you can take governor walz to any part of the commonwealth right now. and he would get a reception just like this.

and i will let you in on something. i said to governor walz and vice president harris before the rally, if he goes to that first state fair, i better be women. he said yes, he is ready to go. so i'm looking forward to it because we have a message here as democrats that i think works in every single corner of the commonwealth. it is why you are seeing this race be in a position where yes it will be close but i feel like the momentum is on our side. >> state representative malcolm kenyata, great to talk to you. >> you too. stephanie ruhle, i have not asked you what you thought about this. what did you think? >> it is tough to find any flaw in it. i'm obviously always focused on the economy. tim walz and kamala harris are perfectly aligned because it is all about the practical care economy. for people going well this midwestern guy, does he know

big business? you have target, 3m, united health care. all based in minnesota. when the expanded child tax credit expired on a federal level, he passed it on a state level. we have all seen the videos this week. him surrounded by kids. he did it in minnesota, free breakfast and free lunch. his platform is about dignity. that aligns with what kamala harris is trying to say. that everyone should live their lives socially free, financially secure, and physically safe. they are completely aligned and he has done it in minnesota. >> minnesota has triple a bond rating. one of the top ten states in the country for business. they are rated the best state in the country for health care. he calls the state the best state in the country to raise

kids. and that's his guarding star as governor. when they ask your opinion about him, are you able to look at his record and about what is happened as the state, as a two term governor and told the business community they have something that appealed in him. >> i can show them donald trump. it was less than a week ago, jamie diamond, ceo of jp morgan who tried to give every single possible olive branch to donald trump to be a human. he wrote an op ed saying we need both candidates to come together. we need unity. we need to stop with the name calling and he didn't call out donald trump and today, donald trump is on his social media platform saying the most awful ridiculous silly insults of every elected democrat.

so it is getting harder for them to be anti. the thing to be kerned about. if you are kamala harris or tim walz, this tech community is real. yes, there are some backing her but this elon musk universe is real. just yesterday, that court ruling against google calling out google for being the monopoly, it very much is. you will see a ground swell of money. get behind donald trump. because the idea that these massive tech companies are now being called out, like yes, google is the only search engine out there. because they are the only one, no one else can get in the game. be prepared. we could see a lot of big quiet money get behind donald trump. even if they hit his guts. because they are afraid that they are about to be called. >> happy. they are number three on the happy index. >> that helps. >> what about the corn dogs?

>> tim walz's daughter. clay masters, we are all i think going to school. some of us knew more than others about governor walz. but tell us what is unsurprising to you? >> it is not surprising to see him playing to his midwest roots. he grew up in a small town in nebraska. and it is a very small town in nebraska. i'm a nebraska native who can verify how far away he was from lincoln and omaha were located. i'm traveling in his old congressional district right now doing some reporting at a farm trade show. you heard senator klobuchar talk about it. this is his district. there are a lot of politicians who are here speaking congressional candidates. governor walz was supposed to speak tomorrow. he has bigger things going on

now obviously. but you see a lot of trump hats. you see a lot of, i talked to a lot of people who were not happy governor walz was the one selected. one person said to me maybe that means that they can take him away from us in minnesota. but i think it is important to point out there was a blue dog democrat way he was seen as a member of congress. you saw the really change as rachel pointed out a moment ago, just in the way that when they got the trifecta of the house, senate. passing all this sweeping legislation protecting gender affirming health care. abortion, providing no cost public school lunches. legalizing recreational marijuana. you really saw just him playing to the very progressive base that seems to be what vice president harris has really

latched onto. >> clay, when he comes across as temperamentally moderate, is that in your view sort of the lingering effects of the upbringing you are talking about and his time served as the more blue dog democratic caucus? >> yeah. certainly he had a much more moderate base to play to. i spoke with congressman brad who represents this district now. a republican who said he talks to people who used to tell him that he was a much more moderate person. you. not to mention the unrest

following the murder of george floyd. their question of how long it took the national guard for walz to call them in. so you are going to see these kinds of things includeing the way he handled covid. so i think you are going to start seeing these tag lines coming out from the trump campaign as we move into the next few days. >> clay masters, minnesota public radio senior political reporter. thank you so much for spending some time with us tonight. rachel? >> everybody who has been on the tim walz beat in minnesota is about to need a new data plan on your phone. because everybody in america as lawrence was saying earlier, this is the vice presidential pick who does not come from a place of already having a national profile. and so minnesota political reporters, if you have ever served going back to 2006, you are about to become very, very in demand. soon after joe biden said he wouldn't go for reelection and

endorsed kamala harris for the nomination, we quickly saw harris energizing the democratic coalition. energizing the democratic base. and specifically, energizing younger voters. one very articulate member of that generation talking about what is going on with young voters is parkland activist david hogg. we will speak to him in a moment. get his reaction to the choice of tim walz in this roll-out. as a ticket at this block buster rally in pennsylvania. that's all ahead when we come back. stay with us. come back. stay with us. >> to husband fellow veterans, he is sergeant major walz. nt m. to the people of southern minnesota for 12 years he was

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covid crisis. he drove our economy into the ground. and make no mistake, violent crime was up under donald trump. that's not even counting the crimes he committed. >> you see vice president harris trying to hold it together and not smile too broadly at that. moments later in the speech she had to try even harder to keep it together when this happened. >> like all regular people i grew up with in the heartland, jd studied at yale, had his career funded by silicon valley billionaires, and then wrote a best seller trashing that

community. come on! that is not what middle america is. and i've got to tell you, i can't wait to debate the guy. that is, if he is willing to get off the couch and show up. so -- see what i did there? >> vice president harris is like -- i am having a hard time not laughing. her face when anybody makes that joke. has been when we

fight when we win, tim walz introducing himself to the country tonight as a fighter obviously one with a somewhat wicked sense of humor. and that brings us to our next guest, david hogg you know as a survivor of the parkland shooting and an activist for gun safety ever since. after vice president harris announced governor walz as his running mate, david hogg wrote about walls his record, his record as a gun owner and a hunter who was nevertheless been willing to face down the nra. david hogg saying, quote, tim walz is a gun safety champion that can bridge the divide and he is the leader as governor when he made the courageous and principled decision to give back the nra's contributions after the shooting in parkland. we are beyond excited to get to work to help with the harris- walz ticket in the white house. let's go with 4o. young people are fired up like i have never seen to vote in this election and governor walz is turbocharging that. and my friend joy read.

>> thank you very much, my friend. i am now joining us is the aforementioned david hogg, the founder and president of leaders we deserve, march for our lives cofounder, and former parkland student. david hogg. last time i had you on my show you predicted stumped for, pitched for, you were the big pitch fan for tim walz. how happy are you and how happy , i like to call on the internet kid, that is because i am old. >> i have not been this happy in years. honestly, it is such a breath of fresh air to feel hope. right? we just, everybody in america know somebody like tim walz. he was the guy who was always there to help you, whether this change your oil, whether it is fixing a lawnmower or whether it is helping fix our democracy. he is always there for us and at the same time, everybody in america knows a jd vance but we stay away from him because he is weird, right? tim walz is always there and he is not a politician. he is a teacher, he is a

veteran, he is a coach and he is a father. the biggest endorsement i saw by far the give me so much confidence wasn't just what other people were saying about him, but it was actually the videos that i saw governor walz with his daughter when he was doing a psa, for example, about fighting distracted driving and how genuine the relationship was. his own daughters endorsement of his and the relationship that they have was all that i needed to know to get behind him two weeks ago when i started going crazy on twitter talking about him constantly, to the point that people were asking me if i was paid by governor walz. the fact of the matter is, i wish i was because i would have made a lot of money. but i wasn't, i was just genuinely love the man. i saw him speak at the nebraska state democratic convention and he brought me so much hope. i remember texting people back in february. i said walls, i'm not making this up, they were texting me said back in february i was saying that walz would be an amazing vp. i did not expect that in this

election season, though. and it feels so good to have hope. >> yeah. is this about, you know, as far as vice president harris, is this about her listening? there was a very strong, it is not just internet-based but use movement for tim walz. and that was very clear who young americans wanted, who young voters wanted. that what this is about? that younger voters like yourself, gun reform activists like yourself feel listened to by the vp? >> i think that is certainly part of it but also comes down to the fact that like he is not just a twist to make sure that we don't do any harm. more than anything he is a great choice. he is so, so experienced between the fact that his district or congress, trump won that district by 15% and he still won there and he won over six times in that deeply red district and he has been an extremely successful governor. the reason why young people were behind him is because of that experience and the track record. young people want somebody who has delivered and can get this done. that is what tim walz has shown

over and over again, along with his incredible early support of things like younger candidates that are out there running to that i thought were so supportive of him and leaders we deserve or helping to get young people running for office to help to reinforce that his boat around the boat to get other young people devote for down ballot so they turn out and vote. i know that while this is the party of kamala harris, obviously, and tim walz and chuck schumer and nancy pelosi and joe biden it is also march for our lives former organizing director and so many other so if anybody wants to support us in that effort they can go to leaders we deserve.com because we are grassroots wanted, our candidates don't take money, we just run a race in houston, texas that we spent $300,000 on and our candidate there became the youngest person by 62 votes, every single vote in these elections count, folks. you can please support us at

leaders we deserve.com point >> david hogg, you may not have any coins on the table but the moral victory is yours, my friend. you were the predictor of this vp nominee, thank you so much. >> i'm so happy. >> he is very good at what he does. >> he is very good. big secret that we want to let you in on at msnbc is that we all have our various skills and things that we bring to the table as msnbc hosts. but the only one of us who is truly connected, truly has like a bat phone on which he can call the most powerful people in the world is the reverend al sharpton who joins us now. rev, i want to ask you what you thought of the rollout tonight but i want to ask you what the real powers that be are saying about this choice because i know the most powerful people in the world call you for advice. >> yes, joy does call me. >> [ laughter ] >> i thought the rollout could not have been better. when you see that crowd. i mean, donald trump has got to be going crazy because this is

legitimately a packed house after she did the same thing in the same arena in atlanta that he was complaining about empty seats. but i think it is not only the crowd, it is the enthusiasm, it is the energy that we have not seen probably since '08 that is really bringing people together across age groups, gender, and race. when you look at tim walz, announced this morning. and i was sitting right in this room, with nancy pelosi on morning joe, the immediate thing i thought about, here is a guy who came as a blue dog congressman who when george floyd happened and the family called me and i flew into minneapolis, in a pandemic, they were right, he was dealing with all of the violence and at the same time people were saying, did you hear reverend, what the minneapolis d.a. said? we don't know if we are going to get a fair trial. called governor walz and then

it was he that talked to the d.a. to step aside and he pointed keith ellison as a special prosecutor. i do not believe we would have got the convictions, probably the few police, as much as that tape evicted, and we had tapes before, keith ellison had not been the prosecutor, that would not have happened without governor walz. then during the trial, a young man was killed in brooklyn center, minnesota. about 15, 20 miles up and not only did he denounce the killing , he came to the funeral. i introduced him to speak and he gave a proclamation to the family and he says i am pro- police, i am pro-law- enforcement but we have got to stop this killing of black kids. this is what he said. so a man with that kind of balance i think is the right man to be on this ticket because this is the balance that kamala harris has. you have to remember, though. the republicans always ran as the law and order candidate.

here you have people that have been a prosecutor, that have been pro-police running against a man with 34 felonies that i would suspect he has got to call his parole officer to get permission to go to the neck city to campaign because you have got to report in. and, by the way, he has got to stop in september to be sentenced right here in manhattan. so how is that the law and order candidate? you have got a candidate with felonies as the president and you have a guy that is running for vice president that we don't know what he is because he doesn't know what he is. >> a real hole in republican self-awareness today when they briefly started criticizing governor tim walz for restoring voting rights for felons like that was a terrible thing. anybody convicted of a felony shouldn't be allowed to vote, they say, before they then look around and realize who they are nominee is and whether he should be allowed to vote. rev, thank you very much. happy to have you here. are covered on this vessel night continues