Tim Walz, a.okay.a. America’s dad, dropped by The Every day Present on Monday, the place he advised host Jon Stewart that there’s room for everybody beneath the Kamala Harris–Walz ticket—even former Republican vice presidents like Dick Cheney.
Stewart kicked off his dialog with a urgent political query: Why are his beloved New York Giants doing so terribly this season? The Minnesota governor had a solution: “They need to have stored Saquon,” Walz mentioned—referring to former Giants operating again Saquon Barkley, who now performs for the Philadelphia Eagles. “Pay the cash.” Walz’s thought spurred a couple of audible unfavourable reactions from the reside studio viewers, however Stewart in the end agreed with the state-championship-winning former highschool soccer coach.
The 2 shortly moved on to actual political dialog. A vocal critic of Cheney throughout his tenure as George W. Bush’s vice chairman within the early aughts, Stewart was skeptical of Walz and Harris’s determination to tout Cheney’s help and marketing campaign alongside the previous VP’s eldest daughter, former Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney. “The Cheney factor—do we actually have to do this?” requested Stewart. “It goes broader than that,” replied Walz. “Look: Bernie Sanders, Dick Cheney, Taylor Swift.” Right here, Stewart pushed again: “What nation did Taylor Swift get us to invade?”
Nonetheless, Walz made a case for why the Cheneys’ endorsement of Harris and Walz is an effective factor for the Democratic ticket. “I do know it’s exhausting to think about, [but] there’s a variety of people nonetheless deciding what they’re gonna do…. The parents I’m speaking to…they’re people which are most likely—they’re Republicans, they usually say it,” mentioned Walz. “A Republican introduces me in Omaha—he mentioned, ‘I can’t stand with this man anymore. That’s not the get together of Reagan. This isn’t freedom.’ No matter it could be, it’s a variety of these people which are looking for permission to get off the MAGA stuff and transfer over. In order that they’re nonetheless listening. They’re discovering a method.”
Walz emphasised what number of Republicans really feel they now not have a spot within the GOP and are actively on the lookout for a substitute for Donald Trump. “For lots of ’em, they’ve by no means crossed over that line,” he mentioned. “And you’ll say it about Liz Cheney and Dick Cheney and a few of those who did present some braveness to cross over; they don’t agree. These are people that have been advised…‘I’m traditionally Republican, I’m gonna vote Republican.’ However they don’t have a house anymore. And I believe for lots of instances, they hear the noise that’s on the market. However that’s why I’m on the market speaking to ’em.”
Whereas Stewart heard out and in the end agreed with Walz, he nonetheless took some pictures at former VP Cheney. After Walz spoke at size in regards to the significance of gun management, Stewart discovered a sly approach to reference the time when the elder Cheney by chance shot searching associate Harry Whittington within the face whereas quail searching. “One of many actual first {qualifications} of being a vice chairman is clearly rifle security,” Stewart quipped. “I can’t consider a vice chairman in latest reminiscence that used a shotgun irresponsibly.”
“It doesn’t imply they agree with us,” mentioned Walz of the Cheneys’ endorsement. “We’re not gonna take their overseas coverage selections and discussions, you already know, and implement these.”
Stewart had a one-word reply for the VP candidate: “Promise?”
