Minnesota Governor and vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz showed up unannounced at the Pennsylvania Democratic National Convention delegates breakfast Monday. His purpose? President Joe Biden’s much-anticipated (with a mixture of trepidation and horror) speech will happen Monday evening, and Governor Walz wanted to inform the Pennsylvania delegates that this was their chance to say “thank you.”
Yes, I know — that’s enough to provoke dry heaving in and of itself. But it gets better.
“We get an opportunity tonight to say a thank you to the best president of my lifetime that I’ve been able to witness, to someone who’s delivered time and time again, someone who made the selfless act of handing that torch to an incredible leader,” Walz said.
His speech was sandwiched between the state’s Gov. Josh Shapiro and other high profile governors: JB Pritzker of Illinois and Gretchen Whitmer of…