Divine walls right pick for the Democrats.
And if so, why?
First of all, choice for every candidate.
It's hard to evaluate from the inside.
For instance, chemistry plays a role.
Are they going to get along well and actually govern
well during the campaign?
But I have to say from the outside,
Waltz is a strong pick.
And the main reason I say that is because the
1st test for one for one of these choices is
credibility.
Could people see this person as the vice president of
United States,
potentially president next year? And Tim Walz was the only
finalists.
Josh Shapiro didn't have this,
who is not only had served it in the state
government,
but also in the federal government.
He had experience as an executive,
but also foreign policy experience,
federal experience serving in Congress.
So he was strong in that regard.
And I think voters are going to look at this
as a serious pick by Kamala Harris,
not some strategy to win an election,
although I think it will help her in in this
way.
But someone who says that she's serious about leading,
that she could have good judgment and do a good
job potentially as president.
Well, I like what Chris is saying,
Mallory, but it's a little egalitarian.
She better have made the pick because she's got a
head towards winning because that's what it's all about.
You can't govern if you don't win.
Do you believe Walls can stand up
to Vance and the withering criticism that is going to
come his way?
Look, I absolutely do. I think that a lot of
people within the Democratic Party really started waking up to
who Tim Walz is within the last few weeks.
And the more you get to know him,
the more you love him.
This is a guy who could relaunch Car Talk if
he wanted to.
He can help you fix your Jeep.
He can talk to you about football.
He can play cornhole and he's led on a lot
of policies.
Watching here in Michigan, we look at Minnesota as a
neighboring state with the Democratic trifecta.
And we're in awe sometimes of the things that they've
been able to get done there with their narrow majority,
like paid leave, which is something that we've been working
on that I know is a priority for the vice
president.
And if I can, I want to go back a
little bit to some of the earlier conversation because my
mom
is a voter in Bucks County,
Pennsylvania. And I was talking to her last week about
this and Shapiro is incredible.
But I can tell you as a voter in a
swing county,
in a swing state, she was afraid of losing him.
So I think that there is a huge opportunity with
the fire that we saw coming from Josh Shapiro united
around this ticket to turn out Pennsylvania with Tim Walz,
with the vice president, get everybody in Michigan on board.
I, I think this is just a slam dunk of
a party that has not been this united in a
very,
very long time. So, brother Pollock,
it's been a minute. Good to see you.
The, you guys are excited about this too.
You say these are a couple of crazy lefties.
Kamala Harris showed you who she is by picking a
guy who's just as left and then some.
Oh, and by the way,
she doesn't like Israel. That's what this pic means.
Also. Why do you guys see advantage in this?
Well, conservatives believed that Donald Trump dodged a bullet in
a figurative sense this time because they were much more
reluctant to face Josh Shapiro
in a general election. Pennsylvania being an important swing state
and Josh Shapiro being young,
dynamic. You saw him on stage today.
As you mentioned, he upstaged the two people on the
ticket.
And conservatives are glad to be facing Waltz.
Walsh has a couple of problems.
One of them is the state of Minnesota,
and that state is losing residents.
It has other problems, like the 2020 riots which began
there.
The mayor of Minneapolis blamed the governor for not preparing
for the riots,
for the violence. And then,
of course, Kamala Harris solicited bail funds for people who
were arrested during the riots.
So you can expect that to come up over and
over again.
But Minnesota also lags behind the rest of the nation
in economic growth.
So there's not much that he's done for Minnesota economically
and in terms of policy.
And that's where I think the Trump campaign needs to
focus is on policy.
Kamala Harris doesn't even have any policies on her website
yet more than two weeks into joining the race.
The other problem he has are really,
it's a more telling aspect of his choice,
but he's not really the future of the Democratic Party.
You can say what you like about JD Vance,
but Trump sent a signal that in picking him,
the Republican Party wants to stay a populist party,
a party of the working class.
And Tim Wallace is not going to be a future
contender for president.
He's not going to run at the end of four
years or eight years.
He's made that clear according to reporting.
So we're not really getting a picture of where the
Democratic Party is going.
I think he was chosen to pacify various different factions
in the Democratic Party.
There is of course the anti Israel faction that did
not want Josh Shapiro and he doesn't offend them.
He has good relations with Ilan Omar and the Somali
community in his state.
So I think that he's really more of a coalition
pick to keep the party together that doesn't really reach
out to independent voters who are really going to make
the difference in this election.