Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is scheduled to take the stage Wednesday night at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago to celebrate accepting his party’s vice presidential nomination.
The keynote speech on the penultimate night of the DNC gives the second-term governor a chance to introduce himself more fully to voters after Vice President Kamala Harris named him as her running mate about two weeks ago.
Walz, a Nebraska native and former teacher, football coach and congressman, was chosen over a slate of other better-known Democrats, including de facto DNC host Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker.
“The through line … (of the speech) will be that Governor Walz has always been someone who has fought for the vulnerable, who has fought for the needy, who has taken on a special interest for the benefit of the people that he represents,” Harris-Walz campaign spokesman Michael Tyler told reporters Wednesday morning. “And so the American people are going to have an opportunity to see that in prime time tonight, many for the very first time, we’re excited about that.”
The Chicago Tribune’s Olivia Stevens contributed.
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