Kamala Harris Chooses Minnesota Governor Tim Walz To Be Vice President

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JAKARTA - Democratic candidate Kamala Harris chose Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as vice presidential candidate.

Kamala Harris chose progressive policy figures and clear speakers from American heart to help win white voters in rural areas, said the people familiar with the election.

Reported by Reuters, Tuesday, August 6, Walz, a 60-year-old US Army National Guard veteran and former teacher, was elected to Republican-leaning district members in the US House of Representatives in 2006 and served 12 years before being elected governor of Minnesota in 2018.fer.

As governor, Walz has pushed for a progressive agenda that includes free school food, the goal of tackling climate change, cutting taxes for the middle class and expanding paid leave for Minnesota workers.

Walz has long advocated for women's reproductive rights but has also shown a conservative trend when representing rural districts in the US House of Representatives, defending agricultural interests and supporting gun ownership rights.

Harris, the daughter of an immigrant from Jamaica and India, has alerted a popular politician from the equator whose home state voted reliably for the Democratic Party in the presidential election, but close to Wisconsin and Michigan, two important battlefields.

The states are considered important in determining this year's elections, and Walz is widely seen as skilled at dealing with white voters in rural areas, who in recent years have voted for Donald Trump from Republican, Harris' rival to the White House in the US Presidential Election November 2024.