{"id":30027,"date":"2024-08-07T17:58:37","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T14:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=30027"},"modified":"2024-08-07T17:58:37","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T14:58:37","slug":"harris-picks-minnesota-governor-tim-walz-as-running-mate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/07\/harris-picks-minnesota-governor-tim-walz-as-running-mate\/","title":{"rendered":"Harris Picks Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as Running Mate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kamala Harris picked Tim Walz as her running mate Tuesday, opting for the Minnesota governor as the partner most likely to complement her in a historic &#8211; and bruising &#8211; bid for the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Walz had been on a shortlist with a string of other Democratic figures seen as broadening Harris\u2019s appeal as she sprints into the contest against Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Aiming to make history as the first woman president, Harris &#8211; already a trailblazer as the first female and first Black and South Asian vice president &#8211; has little time before Election Day on November 5.<\/p>\n<p>Expectations had always been that Harris would pick a white man to balance the ticket &#8211; and the kind of Democrat who can help counter attacks from Republicans that she is too far to the left.<\/p>\n<p>Walz fits that description as a 60-year-old Midwesterner with a folksy manner from a state that could be light years from the coastal elites of California, where Harris comes from, or the East Coast.<\/p>\n<p>The duo will hit the campaign trail immediately, launching an intense, five-day swing through battleground states starting Tuesday in the biggest prize, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>Fresh from securing the official Democratic nomination overnight, Harris can now head to the national convention in Chicago in two weeks in total control of her party.<\/p>\n<p>In a campaign that is barely two weeks old, the 59-year-old former prosecutor has obliterated fundraising records, attracted huge crowds and dominated social media on her way to erasing what had been Trump\u2019s growing lead in polls over Biden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies\u00a0 Kamala Harris picked Tim Walz as her running mate Tuesday, opting for the Minnesota governor as the partner most likely to complement her in a historic &#8211; and bruising &#8211; bid for the White House. Walz had been on a shortlist with a string of other Democratic figures seen as broadening &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30029,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30027\/revisions\/30029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}