Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has formally accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination to be Kamala Harris’s vice president, giving the keynote speech on the third night of the party’s national convention.
Standing on the stage in Chicago, he spoke to party leaders and voters while his family cried and his son Gus shouting “That’s my dad!” as the nominee came on stage.
Tim Walz’s kids tear up: “That’s my dad!” pic.twitter.com/xfw3C2aI9N
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Walz’s speech was a familiar one, hitting many of the same notes he has been hitting since he was selected by Harris to be her running mate in this truncated campaign season. He spoke about their party’s policies being “neighborly” – caring for each other, helping folks out, etc. – and criticized his opponents.
But the speech was also notable in that it kept up with the party’s talking point of the…
