Kamala Harris reportedly chooses Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as VP running mate

Vice President Kamala Harris has chosen Minnesota Governor Tim Walz arsenic her moving mate successful the 2024 statesmanlike election, according to aggregate quality outlets including The New York Times. The quality follows weeks of speculation during an accelerated run since President Joe Biden ended his candidacy and endorsed his VP for the role.

The prime comes weeks earlier the Democratic National Convention and conscionable up of a virtual rotation telephone vote wherever Harris is expected to go the party’s authoritative nominee. Harris volition look successful Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with her VP prime — present expected to beryllium Walz — aboriginal today.

Walz, a erstwhile pedagogue from a bluish state, is seen arsenic having entreaty with Midwest voters and efficaciously shifted Democrats’ messaging astir Trump and his moving mate JD Vance to that of how “weird” they are. He’s cited paid household and aesculapian leave arsenic apical issues for a Harris administration.

Several candidates were rumored to beryllium connected the abbreviated database for Harris’ information based connected factors that could grow the Democratic ticket’s entreaty to plaything voters, peculiarly successful battleground states. Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro and Arizona Senator Mark Kelly were seen arsenic imaginable choices from battleground states, though that brought fears that should Harris get elected, it whitethorn beryllium harder to triumph those seats again successful the lack of a fashionable incumbent. Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear was besides said to beryllium successful the mix, arsenic a Democrat who’s been capable to unafraid a apical spot successful a heavy reddish state. Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer was besides a fashionable sanction successful Democratic circles, but she said she was not “part of the vetting” for the role.