Minnesota Governor Tim Walz officially accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination for Vice President on the third day of the Democratic National Convention (DNC). In his speech, Walz called the nomination “the honor of my lifetime.” Tim began his speech by thanking Vice President Kamala Harris for choosing him for the office.

“It is the greatest honor for me to accept your nomination for Vice President of the United States,” said Walz. Right at the beginning of his speech, the governor of Minnesota also took swipes at former US President Donald Trump and his vice presidential candidate JD Vance. “I grew up in Butte, Nebraska, a town of 400 people. There were 24 kids in my high school class, and none of them went to Yale,” said Walz, referring to the fact that the senator from Ohio went to Yale.

Walz brings up Project 2025

Walz also mentioned Project 2025 while attacking Trump and Vance. “That’s what this is about, the responsibility we have to our children, to each other and to the future we are building together, where everyone is free to create the life they want. But not everyone has the same sense of responsibility. Some people just don’t understand what it means to be a good neighbor. Take Donald Trump and JD Vance,” he said.

“Their Project 2025 is going to make it much, much harder for people who are just trying to live their lives. They’ve acted like they didn’t know about it for a long time. But look, I’ve been a high school football coach long enough to know that and trust me. If someone takes the time to create a playbook, they’re going to use it,” he added.

Walz stands by his identity as a family man and high school football coach

While expressing his love for his children, Walz also used football analogies to express his agenda for the upcoming election. “I haven’t given a lot of big speeches like this, but I have given a lot of motivational speeches. So let me close with that, team,” he said, then began with a metaphor:

“It’s the fourth quarter. We’re down a field goal, but we’re on offense and we have the ball. We’re rushing down the field and boy, do we have the right team. Kamala Harris is tough, Kamala Harris is experienced and Kamala Harris is ready,” he said.

The governor of Minnesota recalled his time in Congress, portrayed himself as a freedom fighter and condemned Republican overreach on issues such as IVF treatment.

“I came back to serve as governor and we immediately went to work to improve the lives of our neighbors,” he said, citing his efforts to cut taxes for the middle class and introduce paid family and medical leave.

“So while other states were banning books from their schools, we were banning hunger from ours. We were also protecting reproductive freedom because in Minnesota, we respect our neighbors and the personal choices they make, and even if we wouldn’t make those choices for ourselves, we have one golden rule: Mind your own damn business, and that includes IVF and fertility treatments,” Walz continued.

At the conclusion of his speech, Walz’s wife, Gwen Walz, and his children came on stage. The family waved to the crowd for a few minutes before leaving the stage and ending the third day, not the Democratic National Convention.

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