Opinion: Tim Walz Is the Biden That Harris Needs—Same Vibes, Same Base
Kamala Harris has chosen. She has picked Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate and in so doing she has both set the terms for the 2024 presidential election and she has confounded legions of pundits who still do not understand elections roughly 250 years into our history as a democracy.
What is more, not only has Harris made the best possible choice among the excellent options from which she was choosing to run and eventually serve alongside her, she did it confidently and from strength. She did not choose a candidate to placate critics, she chose one to further energize the broad national coalition that is lining up to support her vision of America.
The creation of the Harris-Walz ticket makes starkly clearly the choice Americans will face this November. It presents two career public servants versus to men who have dedicated their lives primarily to serving themselves. (Don’t forget, Donald Trump in 2020 had the least public service experience of any presidential candidate in U.S. history—zero and J.D. Vance has the least public service experience, a year and a half in the Senate, of any vice presidential candidate in U.S. history.) Harris has served the public in every job she has had during the past 34 years and so too has Walz.