Tim Walz says Trump is 'spiraling down,' pitches Harris' message of change

Source: ABC News

October 21, 2024, 2:20 PM


Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, appearing on ABC's "The View" on Monday, gave a more definitive answer to a question his running mate Vice President Kamala Harris did not have an answer to at first: What policy would he have handled differently from President Joe Biden over the past four years.

Maybe better prepared as a result, Walz said he wished one of their ticket's proposals -- an expansion of Medicare -- "would have been proposed sooner," and later said Harris was "really leaning into these issues" on matters such as the care economy and child care affordability -- a departure from the current administration, which he said are "tackling the issues that they need to."

"Those are pretty big differences, and I don't think that's -- that's a pejorative towards it. There were other issues that were being dealt with. And she's her own leader. She's got her own path, a new way forward," Walz said. "They came out of a pandemic that Donald Trump had left, a mess for an economy with supply chains that were broken," he said in defense of the Biden-Harris administration.

"But I think focusing on this care economy, the two things that the vice president proposed, that I hear everywhere, especially in rural America, is this issue of affordability on child care and the ability of seniors to get health care, protecting that," Walz said.

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