Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Michael steal here is so glad you to
join us on this very special make mint a double
vice presidential pick edition. Kamala Marris. Kamala Harris has selected
her choice to be her running mate. That is Minnesota
Governor Tim Waltz, who was a dark horse. I guess
for some people, not so much for some others. But
it's a good pick. I think it's a solid pick.
A little bit about the governor. He served as a
member of Congress, so I believe about ten years. He
was a family guy, a former football coach who took
his team to the state championship for the first time
in the school's history. He's a command sergeant of major
in the Army National Guard who went on to college
under the GI Bill to serve his nation. He won
his first race in a Reportublican district representing the needs
of farmers uh in rural America. So this idea that
this guy somehow can't connect with western Pennsylvania is a
load of bullshit. And those folks out there, Republican and
Democrat who are pushing up that narrative just don't know
this guy. He is someone I think is going to
be much more connected to Middle America than perhaps even
Josh Shapiro. You know, I think that a lot of
folks misread the tea leaves here a little bit. Josh was.
I liked Josh and had tagged him as a pick.
I liked Mark Kelly especially, had some good vibes about
this particular choice in Tim Waltz. But I think a
lot of folks are overreading the Pennsylvania play here. It's
not that it's not important. Democrats absolutely need Pennsylvania in
order to win. But I think this idea that somehow
this guy who is America's dad, who comes off that way,
you know, tells, you know, crazy dad jokes from Tom
to Tom, is willing to go toe to toe against
adversaries and has a connection to farmland America to rule
America that he's not going to be able to translate
in a state like Pennsylvania. I think people are just
sort of whistling crazy. Right now, Let's see what this
ticket does. Clearly, the Vice President saw something in him
that made her feel very comfortable, that made her feel
that on day one, should anything happen to her, God
for bid, he could step into the oval and run
the country and I think those are important attributes for
any of these candidates, and I think all of them
that she considered probably would fit that bill. But I
also believe that this idea that somehow this individual would not,
you know, settle out with a lot of Americans is
kind of misreading particular tea leaves with respect to what
he can do. Is a lifelong Midwesterner who speaks Midwestern right,
and he has a way I think, you know, to
translate that which he did as a high school teacher.
You mean to tell me this guy doesn't know how
to talk to young Americans, won't know how to convey
sentiments about what their administration would do, but more importantly,
what's at stake for the country. You know. You know,
Governor Watson, his family struggle, struggle for years with fertility challenges.
He can speak to those issues as well. So it's
not just being pro choice. It is about being pro family,
wanting to start a family and being unable to do so,
and having that conversation on the heels of the Dobbs decision.
You know, this is a guy who's been in a
fight for a lot of Americans who are long forgotten,
whose voices aren't often heard, and I think the Vice
President Kamala Harris has made not just a wise choice,
but an intriguing one, because already you have Republicans like JD.
Vance out here spearing a more stupid narrative, you know, saying, quote,
they will not have picked Shapiro frankly because of anti
Semitism in their own caucus, in their own party. The
far left doesn't like the fact that he's a Jewish American.
That's just stupid. It's race baiting and it's stupid. It
has nothing to do with him being Jewish or not
being Jewish. It has nothing to do with anything other
than the fact that right now JD Vance sounds stupid
and crazy in that, you know, this is the same
crew that, had they picked Shapiro, would have talked about
Shapiro being anti Israel. So it just you just got
to know what you're dealing with here, people, and stop
and stop falling for the crazy. You know the other thing,
you know, this idea that somehow this picket makes this
ticket to progressive is another bullshit narrative. If you want
to go and play the ideological game, have at it.
But at the end of the day, for me, This
is a race between Kamala Harris and Tim Waltz against
a populist, a fake populist, authoritarian oriented dictatorship. Want to
be ticket of Trump and vance. Not a complicated scenario,
nor pick for me, nor I hope for a lot
of Americans. When you look at Tim Waltz's record in Congress,
the last thing you can say it was progressive. You
look at his record as as governor, feeding kids, is
that's a progressive idea? Okay? I think I think they're
conservatives who benefited from those school lunch programs, in those
morning morning breakfast programs in Minnesota public schools. So I
think we just need to be a little bit more
smart about throwing around the term and understanding what it is. Yes,
does he call himself a progressive. He does, But as
he says, if if you know, defending a woman's right
to decide make her own choices over what will happen
to her body is progressive. Otherwords, that's that's actually more libertarian.
But we don't want to get into that. Fine, let's
have those debates, but let's not get stuck on stupid
in the face. So, the the very eminent threat of
Donald Trump and JD Vans. I love the setup with
the vice presidential picks. I think you've got you know,
the hillbilly ellergy against the real hillbilly and that's going
to be fun to watch. So, you know, when it
comes to how this plays out, the race has been set.
The games afoot. The convention is next for the Democrats.
Will see what happens there. I suspect they will, you know,
do a marvelous tribute to the to the President Joe Biden,
and then very very forthrightly hand over this race to
Kamala Harris and her now pick for Vice President, Tim Waltz.
Come Labor Day. This race will be one for the ages,
and what's at stake is nothing short of how we
see ourselves as a nation and which leader is best
positioned to take us into the future as either free
and an open society or a dictatorship. But you know what,
do I know you ultimately will make that decision. So, folks,
I'm excited for the race ahead of us. I hope
you are too. I'm encouraging everyone to go out and
get themselves registered to vote if they aren't, and to
get engaged in this campaign. You can't afford to sit
on the sidelines here. Your choice is stark and clear.
The decision is yours, as the founders intended. And now
you've got to go out do your homework, be smart,
be engaged, and elect the future. In the meanwhile, I'm
going to go make mine a double, so i'll see
you out on the hustings. Take care,