Vice President Kamala Harris selecting Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to be her running mate on Monday caused NBC's cast of characters to gush with praise. Throughout the coverage, Walz would be called a “moderate” who can win over Republicans and a "progressive" who can appease Muslim and Arab voters upset with President Joe Biden on Israel while also being lauded for looking “like a lot of dads,” while the Harris-Walz ticket was described as a “beautiful mosaic.”
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Later still, presidential historian Michael Beschloss gushed of Walz, claiming his selection disproves the idea of Democrats being coastal elites and hyping his ordinary physical appearance, “The point I'm making is that for anyone who wants to say the Democrats are coastal elites and they’re urban and they’re in the cities in the, and they cannot talk to anyone else. As you know, Lester, I come from Illinois, and all I can tell you, I don’t know Tim Walz, but he looks like an awful lot of public school teachers I had in school, and also like a lot of dads.”
Holt followed up, “I am wondering what the model is for Vice President Harris. Obviously she understands her relationship with President Biden, but what will we look for to see how she is reflecting on that relationship and previous president-vice presidential relationships.”
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