Kamala Picks Minn. Gov Tim Walz as Her Running Mate

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Before I get into the Tim Waltz business. Look what
I got, Ah, Vanilla Vanilla Noilla Zvia, Vanilla Cola Zivia. Okay,
I like like vanilla coke. Yeah, I'm gonna do a
live taste test. I haven't tried it yet. I saw
it in the and I like Zvia because of the

(00:20):
lack of sugar and whatnot. You know what I mean.
Mmmmm hmm. It's pretty good. It's pretty good. It's not
the exact same, but it's pretty good. I don't have
a problem with it. So there you go. There's another
flavor to add to my repertoire. Tim Waltz didn't have
that one on the Bengo card. What do you think?

(00:42):
What do you think? We kind of we knew it
was down to him and Josh Shapiro, the governor of Pennsylvania.
But Tim Waltz, the governor of Minnesota, is the vice
president nominee along with Kamala Harris, who officially is going
to be the ticket. And it's and it's Waltz, like
like the dance. It's like it's spelled like Christoff Waltz

(01:03):
Ah Christoff. Yeah, a good actor, a bad guy from
a lot of a lot of movies because he's a
great bad guy. Now, if it was that guy, he
might have had the same problem as that presidential candidate
you were talking about a couple of weeks ago. You
don't want any names that are tough to say. Nah, nah,
yeah for the gen pop you know. Yeah. Yeah. What

(01:23):
were they calling him little Timmy or something? Oh? Little Timmy? Yeah.
I was listening to a Clay and Buck and somebody
called it in and said, I live in southern Minnesota
and I'm under Little Timmy's rule or something. Man, if
he talks like that, he must live in way south.
That's why I didn't listen that hard. I was busy

(01:43):
doing my own stuff, you know what I mean. I
don't know. It's kind of a kind of a man.
What does this do for her? What does this do
for the campaign? Well, she's from California. Yeah, he's from
the Midwest. So I'm you know, Minnesota and California are
both voting blue. I can almost like book it right now.
You're not winning one of those states. Would is the

(02:06):
bluest Midwest state? No, Illinois, Okay, it's blue though, Yeah,
I would say Illinois bluer. Yeah, but again, we're talking
mostly urban areas anyway, So Chicago carries that, just like
you know, Minneapolis and Saint Paul Carriett for Minnesota. I mean,
we've never been this split urban versus rule where urban
America almost exclusively. There's not a major city in America

(02:30):
that I think is not at worst purple. Most major
cities are blue as blue as can be. It's just
a matter of the counterbalance between that and Rule America,
and how much of Rule America decides what's going to
end up happening here. You don't pick Shapiro. Shapiro would
have probably, I mean, he's favorably viewed in Pennsylvania. Now

(02:53):
I have to preface this. I don't know how much
he even wanted to do it. I'm sure he did
at least a little bit, because his name was in
the mix until the very end. I don't know how
good of an idea it was for him to, you know,
change the trajectory he's already on, potentially to be a
presidential candidate into the future, potentially to be you know,
a major player in the future in Washington, DC and beyond.

(03:18):
More of a moderate guy. He's the kind of guy
that could possibly greatly excel in the post Trump world
when when things aren't nearly as volatile. You think jd Vance,
who seems to be the heir to the to the
Trump movement, the Make America Great Again movement, you think
jd Vance is like the kind of guy that's going

(03:40):
to keep people locked in the same way that Trump does,
for good or for bad. I just don't think so.
I don't think he's that kind of guy. I think
he's trying to be. Every time he speaks, you can
tell he's trying to kind of convey that sort of
confidence and that sort of everyman type voice. He's gonna
need some catnip, you know, he catnap. He's gonna have

(04:01):
to buy some catnip. What's the why? What's catnip got
to do with it? If he's gonna I'm just saying
long term, I would if I was jd Vance, I
would invest in some catnip because he's got to win
back some people. He's got to win back the childless
cat ladies. I got what. I got what you're saying, Yeah,
don't come after me, Taylor Swift, I hear you. If

(04:23):
they could do that over again, do they well that
was a clip from twenty twenty twenty one, I know,
and he was on the Tucker Carlson Show. I think
he was just trying to, you know, be like show
off and be a tough guy, you know, say something outrageous. Yeah, Usha,
his wife kind of said that whole thing's kind of
taken a little out of context. I would like to
know how, because he also kind of followed that up

(04:44):
with a completely different thing where he was talking about
how people with children should have like more say or
more count votes that count for more than people that
don't have kids, despite the fact that I pay as much,
if not more, in text money, yet I am not
invested in America? Can you? I just why would you?
Why is that? Are you trying to talk people into
the idea? And we've already established Kamala Harris's adopted children,

(05:07):
so you know, I mean, she obviously I don't think
counts in the matter. But it's like, why is that
the hill to die on here? I don't get why.
And again, maybe there's more to him than that, and
that's just what the media in social media is grabbing
right now. But hey, he's trying so hard to be
the Trump sidekick right now. I need him to be

(05:28):
jd Vance. The real people who can make a difference
as a running mate isn't a sidekick for the top
of the ticket. It's somebody is just being themselves that
can win. Maybe somebody who isn't a big fan of
the big guy or lady. However, though you know who's
not a big fan of childless cat ladies? Who the
butler from Aristocats? Well, huh, that guy had a bunch

(05:53):
of problems, but he's but he's all in for jd Vance.
We can agree on that. Well. I think he got
like put into a like big old trunk and sent
to Africa. I think is how he met his demise.
So he might have trouble getting back for the election.

Speaker 2 (06:07):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (06:07):
I don't think he's I don't think he's around stale.
And by the way, I'm pretty sure that guy was
French anyway, because the whole thing takes place in France,
so you'd have to like, I think he'd be more
concerned with the Olympic Games right now than he'd be
with the American politics. Bottom line is Lady's crazy for
leaving Duchess and all our kittens, all that cash right.
I mean that's probably where we need to start. Give it.

(06:27):
Given your entire inheritance to a cat who probably has
what five years left to live, somebody you have to
adopt a cat. I don't know why did you bring
that up?

Speaker 3 (06:35):
Now?

Speaker 1 (06:35):
All I want to do is talk about that. I
know you know how to get me off track. Yeah.
So does Tim Waltz win the Democrats any of the
independent vote specifically? That's a good question. He doesn't, and
he doesn't win a state for you, like Shapiro could
have won Pennsylvania. Who's nineteen electoral votes? And my question

(06:59):
is who? Like Okay, so you had Meghan d' stallion
who played for Kamala and it was like basically a
concert for Megan with Kamala speaking afterwards. Right, Okay, yeah,
so who plays for Tim Waltz? Are we thinking Mumford
and sons? What are they from Minnesota or something? I
don't know. I'm just thinking you got to go kind
of like alternative indie vibe. You know, you know what

(07:20):
the vibe is going to be. He is going to
play sidekick to Kamala Harris. I think that's why he
was picked. I don't know who's going to play for them.
Maybe they'll just conjure up a hologram of Prince who knows.
But here's what I think, Okay, I think that this
was a mistake that they made. I don't think Tim
Waltz brings a whole lot to the table except being
a good cheerleader. He's great on social media. I think

(07:41):
maybe they think he can win over maybe some of
the younger votes because of how the vocal and how like.
He's definitely better on social media than Shapiro and his
office has been. I don't know how important that is. Obviously,
Trump was able to build his brand on social media
at the same time. I just don't know if there's
much difference between what the campaign looks like before Waltz

(08:01):
and after Waltz. They say, all this chemistry stuff is happening.
They're going to be in Philadelphia, which is, oddly enough,
the state that Jos Shapiro is the governor of, and
they're going to be doing a joint rally and try
to do the best they can to try to do
the best they can to get Pennsylvania to be on
their side. They're going to have to explain that, and
I've seen a ton of people talking about anti Semitism

(08:23):
potentially playing a part in all this, and I will
tackle that part of the equation because, as I talked
about this on my Iowa show earlier today, a lot
of people suggested that that was the real reason. I
will let you know how I feel about that and
why that actually may or may not be the case.
We'll try to do what we always do as many
angles as we can. Next on news radio eleven ten kfab.

(08:44):
Emery Sunger on news Radio eleven ten kfab. He basically
goes through what he does or his a little bio
for him. My dad was in the Army, and with
his encouragement, I joined the Army National Guard when I
was seventeen. I served for twenty four years. I used
my benefits to go to college and become a public
school teacher. I coached football and taught social studies for

(09:05):
twenty years, and I tried to teach my students with
small town Nebraska taught me respect, compromise, and service to country. Yeah.
So I guess I don't know the facts because I'm
not in Kamala Harris's brain or in the campaign leaders

(09:26):
with their brains are thinking. Tim Waltz. Why you would
pick Tim Waltz is because you want to hang out
with somebody that you get along with. And apparently, even
though they didn't know each other, Harrison Waltz get along
really well, like they have good chemistry together. He knows
what the role is. The role isn't to try to
elevate himself. The role is to be a good cheerleader

(09:47):
and support system while being a Caucasian male who was
sixty years old, which makes a difference. They kind of had,
like and I read a ton of different stuff over
the last few weeks. Once we kind of knew Kamala
harr who is going to try to slide in and
be the nominee, that they kind of needed to go
the opposite of identity politics. If they wanted there to

(10:08):
be a viewpoint of stability or that they care about everyone,
they needed to go the opposite way. All the identity
politics they needed are within Kamala Harris specifically. Now there's
a level of identity politics with a guy like Tim Waltz,
but it's his geographical location doesn't really help his background.

(10:30):
His military background, I guess could be of use because
he and JD. Vance both now kind of add a
military element to what the two parties have. Right, So
if you're a veteran or somebody who cares about people
having somewhat military experience in the executive branch, which I
do think can be of great use, well, now you

(10:52):
have two Well each of the vice president candidates are
people who have served our country in the military. So
there's that too. One thing I don't think it was
was anti Semitism. Now I know that there's a push
for this. There's a great push for this from people
saying if she would have picked Josh Shapiro, she would
have lost Michigan, where there's a ton of Arabic Americans

(11:15):
or Muslim Americans or whatever you want to talk about,
who are not fans of how close to the United
States are to Israel, and that Israel's committing genocide against
Arab people in Palestine, and you know the drill. I
don't think that's the case. And here's why Kamala Harris
is already married to a Jewish man. Josh Shapiro is

(11:36):
a decent human being. And even if a place like Michigan,
which would be probably the only of the swing states
that you could say, yeah, that might take a downturn
based on the fact that the vice president's Jewish heritage
could hold them back. Think about how racist that is,
by the way, think about if you put, like, oh,
if we put an African American person or a gay

(11:56):
person or insert inert identity here, insert label here, that
just being whoever whatever you want to label that person.
If people are just like, oh, no, I can't vote
for them. You lost me because you selected somebody of
that background or that heritage, it would be absolutely shunned
by everyone in this country, except apparently that we would

(12:19):
have to realistically talk about a Jewish person not getting
the same type of benefit of the doubt right now,
because Jewish people are associated with Israel, and enough far
left radicals think that Israel is bad, it's a really
sad thing, and that is anti Semitism at the forefront. However,
I don't think that's what's happening here. And even if
you did think that you could lose Michigan if you

(12:41):
selected somebody like Josh Shapiro who is Jewish, you would
win a bigger state in Pennsylvania. Is that a fair trade?
I think it would be to know you've won Pennsylvania
versus Okay, we might lose Michigan. I think that the
trade that you would make if you're the Democrats. However,
the more you look at it, the more that John Shapiro,
I think, would sound better, look better, become kind of

(13:02):
the star of the show in a way. Not that
he's like that charismatic. He's not like Gavin Newsome that
really would take a lot of the cameras away from
the top of the ticket. But he's the kind of
speaker that I think a lot of people will listen
to and saying, Wow, why isn't that guy running for president?
That would be bad for the Harris campaign. Shapiro also

(13:22):
seems to be quite moderate in his perspectives and in
his policies. That's kind of the opposite of what the
leanings are of Kamala Harrison, Tim Waltz for that matter.
They kind of align a lot more with the way
that they see the future of the nation, whereas Josh
Shapiro much more moderate. He kind of falls more into
that old school Democrat style, the kind of style that

(13:46):
Joe Biden kind of ran himself on before he had
to really cater to the far left. Having that kind
of clash, even if it would deliver you the state
of Pennsylvania, Maybe isn't the best situation, not just for
the imagery of having a vice president seems to be
much more capable than the presidential candidate, but also you

(14:07):
have that situation where you have a person that would
govern very differently in their principles and their priorities. At
something else to think about. If you've got thoughts on
this selection, you got thoughts on how this may shake
up the race. I do have a map up of
what people think might end up happening and maybe the
keys to victory for either party. We'll talk about that.

(14:28):
You can call us with your thoughts at four h
two five five eight eleven ten. Four h two five
five eight eleven ten News Radio eleven ten kfab Let's
go ahead and get to Karen on the line. Hello, Karen,
welcome to the show.

Speaker 2 (14:40):
Hi. How are you.

Speaker 1 (14:42):
I'm good? How are you?

Speaker 2 (14:43):
I'm doing okay? As I told your producer, I we
have a local station here in Fremont that I listen to,
especially over the noon hour, and the noon host had
some interesting information about Tim Wall's background and the thing

(15:10):
that really stood out to me. I don't know how
much it will affect people's reason for possibly considering him.
He was over a twenty year veteran in the Army

(15:31):
National Guard.

Speaker 1 (15:32):
Yeah, so he actually served in the Nebraska Army National
Guard as well before he moved to Minnesota, and he
has twenty four years of service. Now. I know a
lot of people who want to be critical of that.
His National Guard is not active duty the whole time,
but that is still impressive. He reached a rank of
command sergeant major. I do think that his military experience
played a small part at least. Jade Vance also has

(15:56):
military background, so he's able to kind of bring that
to the other side. So I do think Karen that
at least a little bit that had something to do
with their selection.

Speaker 2 (16:06):
I wouldn't be surprised because there will be a lot
of people that will think, oh, he's a veteran.

Speaker 1 (16:17):
Yeah no, and I think that you can absolutely say
that and am I cancel out with both guys having
some of that experience as vice president. But I do
think it adds a little credibility. I think they're thinking
that it will add credibility to their ticket to have
some of that experience. So that's not a complete foreign
language to the people who are in charge. So I

(16:37):
think it's a good point. Karen, thanks so much for
calling it.

Speaker 2 (16:40):
You're welcome.

Speaker 1 (16:41):
All right, let's go to Rick on the line. Rick
is on our phone line. Rick, welcome to the show.

Speaker 3 (16:45):
Thank you. I haven't been listening much lately, but just
what I've heard the comments go on, they're planning on
rigging this election, so they want to get their most rough,
evil people in place because they know they're going to
steal it. And it doesn't matter who's in there. So

(17:07):
the globalists have to have sure pupplets in place so
they can decimate this country because that's their goal. They
got to turn us into a third world nation.

Speaker 2 (17:19):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (17:20):
Okay, Rick, Not sure what I can do with that
information if you share Rick's opinion I and Rick has
a complete right to that opinion. I don't. I don't.
I don't know if that's uh, I don't know. I'm

(17:44):
a little bamboozled. Sorry, Like I don't. I'm not in
the camp that I don't think that there's a lot
of people who are actively trying to destroy the country,
make it a third world country. I don't know what
the gain of that would be for them. That doesn't
mean they're competent. I think they're plenty incompetent, InCom incompetent

(18:07):
at a lot of their jobs. Kamalo certainly has proven
that she was incompetent in multiple gigs before she was
elevated things to identity politics by Joe Biden to be
the vice president. However, if you believe that they want
the most corrupt people involved, and you think Tim Walls
fits into that category, I don't have enough information specifically
to tell you that you know he's not. What I

(18:28):
can tell you is that he's going to be a
pretty easy target for the Republicans because as far left
as you know, his ideologies may be, whether or not
you know, you want to think about his background in
the military, or him being from Nebraska originally, or anything
like that. I think he's going to be a lot
easier to try to take down considering how much turmoil

(18:49):
happened in Minnesota under his watch as governor. Bob's on
the phone line four two, five, five, eight eleven ten, Bob,
thanks for the call. What do you got on your mind?

Speaker 4 (18:57):
You're welcome. I agree. I mean the lady that called
her or that just called the things that just because
he's a twenty year National Guard. Bet there's a lot
of wackles in the National Guard and and and well.

Speaker 1 (19:09):
Bob, I think there's a lot of Bob, there's a
lot of whackers just in the military in general. If
we're gonna, we shouldn't even stop exactly.

Speaker 4 (19:16):
So, So if you're gonna, if you're gonna consider voting
for him because because of that, take a look at
his record. He supports I believe he supports Dampon's and
boys restrooms. He supports uh under age eighteen to you know,
have the sex change operation. Yeah, he's way left, Yeah, left,

(19:37):
twenty year National Guards isn't gonna make a bit of difference.

Speaker 1 (19:40):
Yeah, yeah, thanks Bob. I appreciate the call, you know,
and I don't disagree with that. But again, I'm we
got to talk about obviously from where Bob or Rick
are sitting at, and most conservatives are gonna, you know,
listen to, you know, anything that comes out that could
be viewed as a positive and try to debunk that.
There's gonna be positives and eggs about every single time
out there, no matter what the record of him. We know,

(20:04):
if you follow politics at all. There are a lot
of things about Tim Wats that it just doesn't jive
with anything that rule America, doesn't jive with anything that
conservative America really believes it. He is not that kind
of guy. He is definitely very far left. However, you
got to look at it with the goggles on that

(20:24):
you're an independent voter. Let's pretend like you don't have
all these strong convictions about I'll just use some of
the examples that we just heard from Bob there, the
trans situation right where he thinks it's not a big deal.
If you know, a fifteen sixteen year old wants to,
you know, start making a transition to a different gender,

(20:44):
they should have the ability to do so. The tampon's
in the boys bet reshrooms. I've read that as well,
you know, just to be in an effort to be
what they would consider to be as inclusive as possible.
As crazy as that sounds to like people who are
truly conservative, like we talk about that here on the show,
and it's just kind of like that doesn't make a
whole lot of common sense to us. However, there are

(21:05):
plenty of people that they feel like that is the
right thing to do. Those are the Democrats. Those are
the far lefty Democrats. They do exist. There are people
that think that that's okay. There are also independents that
couldn't care less about that as a subject. I'm not
saying I don't care about it, but what I'm saying
is sometimes we have to think for the If you're thinking,

(21:27):
why would Tim Wantz be the VP nominee, you got
to think they need to win independent voters, specifically independent
voters in swing states. That would be the whole point, right,
If you're trying to support sa Kamala Harris to win
voters in these swing states, you're thinking from an independent perspective.
They're not thinking about Bob, or about Rick, or about

(21:47):
me or probably you two. They're not thinking about you.
They already know you've made up your mind. They're thinking
about the people that, yeah, the transgender young person thing
like it doesn't do anything for me. Playing the Muslim
national or Muslim prayer or whatever in public squares and
stuff like that doesn't do like. They don't care that
much about it. There are people like that. They could

(22:10):
very well. Look very specifically at the military experience twenty
four years in the national guard and that be enough
of a positive for them to be like, you know what,
that adds quite a bit of credibility to Kamala Harris's campaign.
There are independent voters that will think that. Okay, so
just because we don't think that doesn't mean that there

(22:31):
aren't people that do think that. And that's what we're
trying to kind of figure out so we can understand
very specifically what the story is on why they would
select a guy like Tim Waltz instead of somebody like
Josh Shapiro, who would have made you would think a
lot more since in him bringing Pennsylvania probably to the
table and just a level of decency and moderation to

(22:54):
a race that doesn't really have a whole lot of that.
We're going to talk a little bit more about this
so stick we'll get to the phones as well as
we talk more about Tim Walls, Governor of Minnesota, becoming
the vice president nominee for Kamala Harris. More on the
Way on news radio eleven ten kfab. Emri Sunger on
news Radio eleven ten kfab. We have Joe on the

(23:17):
phone line. Joe, welcome to the show. What's up?

Speaker 5 (23:20):
Yeah, So, I mean it's kind of funny. You know,
everybody wants to talk about you know, Tim Walls, and
you know he's from Minnesota and all this, but even
in his own state, he is wildly unpopular. Outside of
Minneapolis and Saint Paul, I grew up in Northwest Iowa.
Still have many friends that are in Minnesota, and I've
been talking to a lot of them today and outside
of Yeah, really, outside of the big city in Minneapolis, wildly,

(23:43):
wildly unpopular. And when it comes to the difference between
Walts and Shapiro, I truly think the Democrats could not
afford to tick off the far far left, who are
extremely anti Semitic and actually nominated Jew. They just couldn't
afford to do it. And that's why we're here, and
that's why they've shot themselves in the foot.

Speaker 1 (24:05):
Yeah, Joe, No, I appreciate the call. Thanks for giving
us that insight today.

Speaker 5 (24:09):
Thanks.

Speaker 1 (24:10):
Yeah. I mean, I hate to think that that's a factor.
I really do. Enough people are saying, well, and even
if it's not true, it's a big target for Republicans.
I mean, the Republican Donald Trump and JD. Vance and
anybody that's by proxy campaigning for them, is they are
one hundred percent going to do everything they possibly can

(24:32):
to put this giant target on the fact that, well,
Josh Shapiro didn't get the nominee because he is Jewish
and they didn't want to have a Jewish vice president.
Until Josh Shapiro himself comes out and says that that's
not the case because obviously he's very pro Israel and
he also happens to be a Jewish person very publicly.

(24:55):
I think until he says something, there's going to be
a big target on the Harris campaign about that. Now.
I don't know how far they're going to even go
to acknowledge those questions, but as we know, more often
than not, they just try to pull the wool over
our eyes and not make and make sure that we're
not paying as close attention as we they think we are,

(25:16):
And that's our job to continue to ask those questions. Now, again,
I think that the personality clash or the fact that
Shapiro is more moderate and not nearly as far left
as a person like Waltz would be. And I believe that,
you know, rule versus urban it's just how powerful is
your urban area a place like Nebraska, a place like Iowa,

(25:38):
the rest of the state can really offset when it's
an entire state thing, Nebraska having that districts that splits off,
which could be quite a big factor here. I think
that's important to note. There's a website called two seventy
to Win. It kind of goes through and uses a
lot of different polls and polling to try to figure

(25:59):
out what the scoreboard would look like if the polls
are accurate. Right now, they think that North Carolina and
Georgia have definitely leaned enough to the Republicans that they
don't even have those as question marks anymore. They only
have five question marks Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arizona, Wisconsin, in Nevada
in that order. As far as how many electoral votes

(26:22):
are available now, the Republicans, according to their score sit
at two hundred and fifty one. Nineteen electoral votes would
be enough based on the scoreboard now, if they do
have Georgia and North Carolina in the bag like this
would suggest they only need nineteen more votes in the
electoral college to win. Well, that means winning Pennsylvania, which

(26:43):
guess what is exactly nineteen electoral votes. Winning Pennsylvania would
give the Republicans the victory and the White House. If
that were to hold up, that doesn't even count Arizona.
Nevada was consint of Michigan. That might be why Philadelphia
is the first place to come. Harrison tim Waltz are
doing a joint rally today. She announced him as the

(27:04):
VP today. He is going to be up there with
her today in Philadelphia. They're going to need to win Pennsylvania,
not just to help them win, but also to prevent
the Republicans from finding a way to win. Because even
if the Republicans are able to win, say Nevada and Wisconsin,
two of those battleground states that they don't necessarily have

(27:25):
locked and loaded, that's not enough to get to that
two seventy. Pennsylvania by itself is enough to get to
two seven. So it's an interesting dichotomy and something that
will be continuing to watch and see if the Tim
Waltz addition to the ticket makes a whole lot of
difference in the way that people are perceiving this race.
I tend to think that it probably will not, but

(27:45):
time is going to tell. Certainly is giving the Republicans
plenty of different targets to go after. With the addition
of Waltz to that ticket. Not a great day if
you're an employee of Kellogg's here in Omaha's they found
out that it's closed down. Many many jobs going to
be lost here in Omaha in the coming months. We

(28:05):
are going to talk about that, get a little bit
of analysis as to how this happened, why it happened,
and what's next. And we'll do that when we start
the three o'clock hour and moments stick around. My name's
Emri Songer. Thanks so much for listening right here on
news Radio eleven ten KFAB