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Harris’s VP pick emphasizes his labor background at LA event and says Trump and Vance ‘waged war on workers’

Tim Walz held his first solo campaign event since being selected as Kamala Harris’s vice-presidential nominee on Tuesday, rallying union members in Los Angeles and denouncing Donald Trump’s record on labor rights.

The Minnesota governor’s appearance, at an event hosted by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, was the first in a five-state fundraising campaign as Walz ramps up support for the still-young Democratic ticket.

Speaking to thousands of union members in a darkened auditorium, Walz said he and Harris will support workers by bringing collective bargaining and other protections to “every state in the union”. The 1.4-million-member union has endorsed Harris.

“We know exactly who built this country,” Walz said. “People in this room built the middle class.”

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

And they built it on rock n roll, right?

[–] Viking_Hippie 8 points 5 months ago

Only the city. The countryside was built on bluegrass, and the suburbs were built on muzak.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 5 months ago

This man is speaking my language and I like it.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The more I see of this guy the more I think we're meeting a future US president.

[–] Viking_Hippie 13 points 5 months ago

Yes! Could we skip the current candidate in favor of him? If we can do it once..

(~80% joking)

[–] Hobbes_Dent 20 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Knee deep in the hoopla.

(Before you downvote, it's a song reference and I'm pro-Walz, not some dig at the workers who built our countries).

[–] dhork 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

We built this city on Rocky Road

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Macaroni plays the mamba

[–] tetrachromacy 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

We built this kitty

We built this kitty a scratching post

[–] Nuke_the_whales 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Slaves? I like the guy but this country wasn't built by union labourers, it was built by violent forced labour.

[–] Bernie_Sandals 10 points 5 months ago

The country when it was founded? Yeah maybe, slave labor was really important for the southern economy, but by the time that most of the country was actually being built, it was being built by union members.

[–] MediaBiasFactChecker -4 points 5 months ago

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