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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Ed Pilkington in Chicago

Tim Walz channeled grit and empathy at the Democratic national convention

“You might not know it, but I haven’t given a lot of big speeches like this,” Tim Walz said demurely towards the end of his keynote Democratic national convention address on Wednesday night.

The moment reeked of understatement. The look on his face, the way he raised his white eyebrows as if he were apologizing, the shrug of his shoulders. Even the phrase “big speech”.

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