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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Joe Sommerlad

Tim Walz says Kamala Harris picked him as running mate ‘to talk to white guys’

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, who ran as Kamala Harris’s vice presidential nominee on the losing Democratic ticket in last year’s election, has said the former vice president picked him because he could “talk to white guys.”

Speaking at a Harvard Kennedy School forum in Cambridge, Massachusetts, this week, Walz said the campaign had identified appealing to white working class males as a weakness of their candidate and had looked to him to bridge the divide.

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