
VP Pick Make a Difference?
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Kentucky political expert on whether Tim Walz will make a difference in November.
University of Kentucky political science professor Stephen Voss says Vice President Kamala Harris’ new running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, could help her in areas of the country where Democrats have been struggling.
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VP Pick Make a Difference?
Clip: Season 3 Episode 48 | 3m 33sVideo has Closed Captions
University of Kentucky political science professor Stephen Voss says Vice President Kamala Harris’ new running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, could help her in areas of the country where Democrats have been struggling.
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And as many diverse fields as possible.
In other news, Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz spent their first full day as running mates and Wisconsin and Michigan running mates and Wisconsin and Michigan today as Kentucky ends are learning more about walls.
Some are wondering what made him stand out from the competition.
University of Kentucky political science professor Stephen Voss says Walls could help Harrison some of the parts of the country where Democrats have been struggling.
struggling.
>> The mess is that you pick a running mate, a vice presidential pick to try to swing their home state VP picks don't actually have that much of a direct impact on any one state.
What they do is help the campaign amplify a message or alter its image with the public more general and VP pick can help in multiple states.
Walz has the benefit of appealing to that.
A working class, the middle class, upper Midwest, Northern European descent population that used to be solidly progressive solidly Democratic and the Democrats have been losing to the Republicans lately.
Hillary Clinton lost because she lost the big blue Wall.
Vice President Harris hopes to win by keeping the big blue wall and waltz is a candidate picked to represent that Upper Midwest area in terms of policy positions, the Democratic Party has been moving left just as the Republican Party has been moving, right?
We're in a more polarized circumstance by the standards of Bill Clinton or even Barack Obama.
Harrison was is going to be a more more left-leaning ticket.
Then we had before, of course, Harrison was will be facing Republican ticket.
That's notably conservative compared to anything we've had before.
More and more voters are caught in the middle choosing between 2 tickets to that are kind of far from where they stand ideologically.
I first was has come out of the starting gate roaring.
You know, he's got good common sense language, man of the people language, including a few cuts, words and dirty jokes thrown in.
He talk sports.
The vibes as they call it.
The walls has brought to the campaign so far have been fantastic.
But it's a it's a mistake to think that voters by November we're going to be making their choices based on superficial on shallow things.
Voters may not know a lot about policy, but in their sloppy way, they are trying to vote for the candidate who's going to deliver policies of a sort.
They'd prefer they may not know much about policy, but the voter may take cues from an uncle who follows politics from the woman who runs their labor association.
Whatever they figure out ways to vote.
Russia went to vote for the candidate whose policy positions are closest to theirs.
Has signed legislation and a lot of legislation that Republicans will use to suggest that he's out of touch on the culture war issues that have been hurting Democrats in middle class and working class areas.
By the time people are voting that walls will also be on the ballot.
Not just the one who's being judged based on style.
So far a much more effective public speaker than JD Vance just in terms of delivering a message of connecting an audience walls is a former teacher.
I think it shows that that he knows how to deliver information in a way that people can process his comic.
Timing is good.
Vance is an awkward public speaker and awkward presentation on stage.
Maybe he can improve that over time, at least out of the starting gate Wall says the stronger message or
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