'Get off the couch and vote': Ex-Republicans launch new ad welcoming Tim Walz to race

The "Never Trump" group the Lincoln Project released a new ad Thursday using the speech Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) made the night he was named Vice President Kamala Harris' running mate.

Mashing up videos of American flags and the images of a joyful Harris and Walz, the Lincoln Project contrasted it with videos of Donald Trump making an angry expression and the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Walz's voice plays over it, promising things will be "much worse" if Trump's elected again.

"We aren't going back," his voice rings out over music.

"Coach needs you to get off the couch and vote," said the Lincoln Project in the video, referring to Walz's past as a high school football coach, and to a jokey reference the governor made earlier this week to an untrue rumor that circulated about his opponent, J.D. Vance, and a couch.

The video earned a huge response from followers of the group on X.

"Tim Walz is the Coach America Needs!!!!" said commentator Kurt Bardella.

See the video below or at the link here.

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