Tim Walz has accepted his party's nomination for vice president, using his Democratic National Convention address to thank a packed arena for "bringing the joy" to a US election transformed by the elevation of his running mate Kamala Harris. / (min cost $ 0 ) or signup to continue reading "We're all here tonight for one beautiful, simple, reason: We love this country," he said as thousands of delegates hoisted vertical placards reading "Coach Walz" in red, white and blue. Walz described his upbringing in Nebraska and teaching and coaching football in Minneosta and told the crowd, "Thank you for bringing the joy to this fight.
" "While other states were banning books from their schools, we were banishing hunger from ours," he said. In a dig at his Republican counterpart, JD Vance, he added, "I had 24 kids in my high school class, and none of them went to Yale." When Walz talked about the difficulty conceiving his daughter, Hope, she made a heart with her hands and held it over her chest.
His son, Gus, wept watching his dad speak and at least once shouted, "That's my dad!" "I haven't given a lot of speeches like this but I've given a lot of pep talks," Walz said. He also drew on his time as a football coach. "It's the fourth quarter.
We're down a field goal, but we're on offense and we've got the ball. We're driving down the field, and boy do we have the right team," he said. "Kamala Harris is tough, Kamala Harris is experienced, and Kamala Harris is ready.
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