{"id":108169,"date":"2024-09-29T02:47:48","date_gmt":"2024-09-28T19:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=108169"},"modified":"2024-09-29T02:47:48","modified_gmt":"2024-09-28T19:47:48","slug":"tim-walz-heading-into-the-vp-debate-spotlight-minnesota-governor-is-fighting-nerves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=108169","title":{"rendered":"Tim Walz: Heading into the VP debate spotlight, Minnesota governor is fighting nerves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-editable=\"content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-reorderable=\"content\">\n<p>\n    <cite class=\"source__cite\"><br \/>\n      <span class=\"source__location\" data-editable=\"location\"\/><br \/>\n      <span class=\"source__text\" data-editable=\"source\">CNN<\/span><br \/>\n        \u00a0\u2014\u00a0<br \/>\n    <\/cite>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1ldm6w7000l26nnb24v9abt@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/09\/24\/politics\/fact-check-tim-walz-project-2025-donald-trump-jd-vance\/index.html\">Tim Walz<\/a> is telling people he\u2019s just as nervous about facing JD Vance as he was the\u00a0Sunday afternoon\u00a0in August when he warned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/09\/27\/politics\/harris-southern-border-arizona\/index.html\">Kamala Harris<\/a> in his running mate interview that he was a bad debater.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1ljx6th00073b6mm8dgcp8b@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Maybe more\u00a0nervous, according to multiple people who\u2019ve spoken to him.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1ljx6th00083b6mp3aezreb@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            And the pressure is even higher, when for the first time in modern campaign history, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/08\/15\/politics\/vance-walz-vice-presidential-debate\/index.html\">vice presidential debate\u00a0Tuesday<\/a> is likely to be the last marquee event before Election Day. With many voters still saying they don\u2019t know enough about Harris, it could be up to Walz to help convince them to trust a vice president he barely knew himself before she picked him.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1ljx6th00093b6ml0w4pdpe@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Talking to the aides who have coalesced around him in Minnesota and\u00a0other supporters, Walz constantly comes back to how worried he is about letting Harris down, according to close to a dozen top campaign\u00a0staffers\u00a0and others who have been in touch with the governor and his team.\u00a0He doesn\u2019t want <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/politics\/president-donald-trump-45\">Donald Trump<\/a> to win. He doesn\u2019t want Harris to think she made the wrong choice.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1ljxnkc000g3b6mdexs9ta2@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            He feels genuine contempt for and confusion over what he views as\u00a0Vance\u2019s abandonment of\u00a0their common roots, and for flipping so many of his positions to fit with Trump. The digs he takes at Vance by saying he didn\u2019t know many Midwesterners who went to Yale are a glimpse into his anxiety that his opponent learned to be a sharp debater there, according to people who know Walz.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1mbdlyf000b3b6md083n98s@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            And aides insist this isn\u2019t just about setting expectations.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1lrb1xb00003b6mrdrwfpmz@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cHe\u2019s a strong person,\u201d said Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who\u2019s known\u00a0Walz\u00a0since they were each first elected to Washington in 2006. \u201cHe\u2019s just not a lawyer-debater type. It\u2019s not like he was dreaming of debates when he was in first grade.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1ljx6th000a3b6mm5727o5o@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Walz is\u00a0confident in\u00a0Harris\u2019\u00a0vision. But the governor\u00a0fears he won\u2019t make his case as well as he needs to, according to people who have been speaking with him.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1ljx6th000b3b6mmi0zrv9s@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cHow\u2019s debate prep going?\u201d one person at an exclusive high-dollar\u00a0fundraiser asked Walz as he stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows in megadonor Alex\u00a0Soros\u2019\u00a0penthouse living room in Manhattan\u00a0on Monday.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1ljx6th000c3b6monpl1zkg@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cAs teachers, we are trained to answer the question, and we train our students to answer the questions,\u201d the person recalled Walz saying. \u201cThat\u2019s not how this goes.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1ljwa6w00003b6mtwxn7oh1@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            In long sessions that have gone late into the night and through weekends, Walz and his team have been balancing managing the Minnesota governor\u2019s headspace, watching videos of Vance and holding mock sessions with stand-ins for the moderators, with Pete Buttigieg playing\u00a0the Ohio senator. (Though the Transportation secretary is\u00a0not going as method as\u00a0Harris\u2019\u00a0Trump stand-in\u00a0did\u00a0and growing out a beard.)\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1ljzjor000r3b6m45xf5rg7@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The plan for Tuesday night, several people involved\u00a0told\u00a0CNN, will be to largely skip Vance and go right at Trump \u2013 but\u00a0to\u00a0also squeeze the\u00a0senator between his attempts to appeal  to\u00a0undecided\u00a0voters and the always tricky task of satisfying America\u2019s most prominent audience of one.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1ljzbab000n3b6m4n61ylw5@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            If they get their way, Trump will be triggered into a storm of anger, jealousy and pique as easily as he was when Harris poked him\u00a0at\u00a0their debate. Their goal is for Walz to lean into his likability to hammer Vance over \u201cProject 2025\u201d and for \u201cselling his soul to Donald Trump,\u201d as Walz put it at another\u00a0New York fundraiser.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1ljzbab000o3b6mwp6eobsx@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            People involved say Walz may even try a line that originated when Harris was\u00a0preparing for a vice presidential debate\u00a0before Joe Biden dropped out: asking Vance what promises he made to Trump so\u00a0the former president wouldn\u2019t send an angry mob\u00a0after him\u00a0with a gallows, like Mike Pence experienced on January 6.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1ljzbab000p3b6mzfz9l99g@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Walz and his team want\u00a0commonsense\u00a0indignation to come across, according to several in the know. Their worry is that Vance is going to eviscerate the governor\u2019s hand-to-his-heart,\u00a0dad-joke\u00a0persona and make Walz come across as either a moron or a raging bull, or even an out-of-whack liberal vouching for another out-of-whack liberal.\n    <\/p>\n<div data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/image\/instances\/cm1lkutcl00013b6mxtj4ic9h@published\" class=\"image image__hide-placeholder\" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-name=\"GettyImages-2169745128.jpg\" data-component-name=\"image\" data-observe-resizes=\"\" data-breakpoints=\"{\" image--eq-extra-small=\"\" data-original-ratio=\"0.6666666666666666\" data-original-height=\"1600\" data-original-width=\"2400\" data-url=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-2169745128.jpg?c=original\" data-editable=\"settings\">\n<div class=\"image__container \" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-breakpoints=\"{\" image--eq-extra-small=\"\">\n       <picture class=\"image__picture\"><source height=\"1600\" width=\"2400\" media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-2169745128.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"1600\" width=\"2400\" media=\"(min-width: 960px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-2169745128.jpg?q=w_1015,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"1600\" width=\"2400\" media=\"(min-width: 480px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-2169745128.jpg?q=w_1160,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"1600\" width=\"2400\" media=\"(max-width: 479px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-2169745128.jpg?q=w_680,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-2169745128.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill\" alt=\"Attendees listen to Walz speak at a campaign rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, on September 5, 2024.\" class=\"image__dam-img image__dam-img--loading\" onload=\"this.classList.remove('image__dam-img--loading')\" onerror=\"imageLoadError(this)\" height=\"1600\" width=\"2400\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"subheader inline-placeholder\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/subheader\/instances\/cm1lk0ms7000t3b6mdae0w6en@published\" data-component-name=\"subheader\" id=\"making-people-feel-joyful-and-hopeful\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n        Making people feel \u2018joyful and hopeful\u2019<br \/>\n<\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1ljyy8b000l3b6mong285gg@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Traditionally, running mates serve as attack dogs.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1lk1kho00133b6mirbwxxmt@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            For the\u00a0past\u00a0six weeks of calibrated campaign appearances, Walz has been more emotional support animal\u00a0for his party \u2013 whether, according to people who\u2019ve been with them, that\u2019s\u00a0Harris\u00a0feeling buoyed by his energy and vindicated by voters\u2019 reactions to her pick (she was the one who suggested calling him \u201cCoach\u201d as they got ready for their first joint rally) or the voter who waited half an hour on a rope line last week for a fist bump and walked away squealing to a friend, \u201cThat\u2019s\u00a0all I needed.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1lk1dvl000y3b6msnfzuyfs@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cPeople assume that he is a walking permission structure for rural, exurban,\u00a0White\u00a0male hunters,\u201d said a senior campaign aide. \u201cYes, for the 1 or 2 points of those we want to move. But it\u2019s much deeper than that: He\u2019s a\u00a0walking permission structure for people to feel joyful and hopeful themselves.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1lk1dvl000z3b6mld77k7fh@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            That appears to be working: whether it\u2019s the Human Rights Campaign\u00a0black-tie\u00a0gala in Washington, where his remarks drew tears from many at the high-priced tables (he changed into his tuxedo in the convention center bathroom after flying in wearing a sweatshirt)\u00a0or the\u00a0stuffy gym\u00a0at the conveniently named Freedom High School\u00a0in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where people like retired federal government worker Ana Gallardo\u00a0said\u00a0they\u00a0loved\u00a0Walz even if they\u00a0couldn\u2019t\u00a0say why.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1lk1dvl00103b6miexc60ee@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Asked to name her favorite thing about the governor she\u00a0was so thrilled to see, Gallardo paused.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1lk1dvl00113b6mid950q2f@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cI really don\u2019t know,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m going to listen closer today.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"subheader inline-placeholder\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/subheader\/instances\/cm1lk24lc00153b6muqk6klq3@published\" data-component-name=\"subheader\" id=\"what-walz-highlights-about-harris-and-what-he-is-careful-not-to\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n        What Walz highlights about Harris \u2013 and what he is careful not to<br \/>\n<\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1lk17h8000w3b6mvpdgvzez@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            With his 12 years in the House and\u00a0nearly\u00a0six\u00a0so far\u00a0as governor, Walz has more government experience and a deeper record than many men who\u2019ve\u00a0served as president. But he\u2019s leaned into the feeling of being a guy who just wandered in\u00a0wide-eyed\u00a0to find thousands of people cheering for him and his name on the logo.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1lk36ox001a3b6mo02br6kd@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Jamming this guy into a campaign that\u00a0Harris\u00a0had to\u00a0suddenly\u00a0take\u00a0over, with different\u00a0camps\u00a0among the staff competing for dominance, has been tricky. While some on the campaign have been eager to milk as many different appearances and fundraisers as they can out of an\u00a0unexpectedly\u00a0in-demand running mate, others have questioned why he is not being kept focused on the necessary basics of appealing to\u00a0White\u00a0men in what aides on the day he was picked were calling the \u201cBlue Walz\u201d states.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1lk36ox001b3b6mvx8sowf6@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            This also plays out in day-to-day engagement: a governor who until six weeks ago was one of the most eagerly accessible Democratic politicians in the country and\u00a0who\u00a0essentially manifested himself as the running mate\u00a0with\u00a0a few spicy TV appearances has done only a few interviews since being picked, all lower profile. He doesn\u2019t take questions from reporters and rarely comes to chat off the record on his campaign plane.\u00a0Aides declined requests for even a brief interview with CNN.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1lk36ox001c3b6mqquitth8@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            As they monitor how Vance has been fencing with reporters in Q&amp;As after his\u00a0many\u00a0events,\u00a0Walz\u00a0aides know their approach risks Walz getting rusty.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1lk36ox001d3b6mde992vt9@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Their hands are tied, multiple people involved acknowledge:\u00a0The\u00a0vice president\u2019s staff doesn\u2019t want a contrast that would highlight how few unscripted events Harris has done.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1lk36ox001e3b6mrlt2p1l5@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Walz, though,\u00a0has reminded staffers that he wasn\u2019t the\u00a0head football coach back in Minnesota. He was the assistant coach and defensive coordinator, and that\u2019s the experience he\u2019s turning to now.\n    <\/p>\n<div data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/image\/instances\/cm1ll4tq200033b6meyf9a3af@published\" class=\"image image__hide-placeholder\" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-name=\"GettyImages-2168154703.jpg\" data-component-name=\"image\" data-observe-resizes=\"\" data-breakpoints=\"{\" image--eq-extra-small=\"\" data-original-ratio=\"0.6666666666666666\" data-original-height=\"1600\" data-original-width=\"2400\" data-url=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-2168154703.jpg?c=original\" data-editable=\"settings\">\n<div class=\"image__container \" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-breakpoints=\"{\" image--eq-extra-small=\"\">\n       <picture class=\"image__picture\"><source height=\"1600\" width=\"2400\" media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-2168154703.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"1600\" width=\"2400\" media=\"(min-width: 960px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-2168154703.jpg?q=w_1015,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"1600\" width=\"2400\" media=\"(min-width: 480px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-2168154703.jpg?q=w_1160,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"1600\" width=\"2400\" media=\"(max-width: 479px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-2168154703.jpg?q=w_680,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-2168154703.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill\" alt=\"Vice President Kamala Harris and Walz visit with members of the marching band at Liberty County High School in Hinesville, Georgia, on August 28, 2024.\" class=\"image__dam-img image__dam-img--loading\" onload=\"this.classList.remove('image__dam-img--loading')\" onerror=\"imageLoadError(this)\" height=\"1600\" width=\"2400\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1lk36ox001f3b6mqxsdd46d@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Walz\u00a0very deliberately \u2013 and without being told by Harris or her inner circle \u2013\u00a0never asks a crowd to elect him vice president. He never talks about what he\u2019d do on the job. He doesn\u2019t even talk about electing \u201cus\u201d or what a Harris-Walz administration would be. He talks about Harris, how important it is to get her into the White House and how excited he is to see what she\u2019ll do on the job.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1lk36ox001g3b6msaoemksr@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cThe guy is reclaiming old White dude masculinity away from toxicity,\u201d said one person who\u2019s spoken with Walz often since he was picked.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1lk36ox001h3b6m4x8nc84u@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            To Adrian Fontes, the Democratic secretary of state in Arizona, that\u2019s the difference between what he calls the \u201cmachito\u201d of the Republican ticket and true machismo, in a way that he believes will ripple well beyond the people who look and sound like Walz.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1lk36ox001i3b6mvynfy3yi@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cTim Walz epitomizes the Latino dad. He loves his family. He loves families generally. He\u2019s got a good sense of humor. He\u2019s warm. \u2026. He\u2019s just there to support, and he takes great pride in the success of others,\u201d Fontes said. \u201c\u2018Machito\u2019 \u2013 it\u2019s less mature. It has sort of to do with the big trucks and the loud music version of the Latino men. And there\u2019s plenty of those guys out there, don\u2019t get me wrong. But we grow out of that pretty quickly.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1mbfetz000e3b6mx7nqww4x@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Fontes said that\u00a0distinction\u00a0is reinforced by \u201cthe physical appearance that this is sort of a dad here who\u2019s super proud of his daughter.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1lk36ox001j3b6mjbbzf5zf@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Walz\u00a0has maintained that relatable demeanor, even as he seems to still be wrapping\u00a0his head around how much his life has changed \u2013 and might even more<strong>.<\/strong>\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1lk36ox001k3b6mj5hx3r5o@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cWhat\u2019s it been like the past six weeks?\u201d he said at the beginning of his speech in Pennsylvania. \u201cPretty strange.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1lk36ox001l3b6mml3olzxd@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Up on the 36th\u00a0floor of the InterContinental Hotel\u00a0in Manhattan\u00a0in a suite where most of the seats were filled by billionaires and the refreshments were a thick wooden box of macadamia nut cookies and brownies kept under a glass dome,\u00a0Walz\u00a0deflected when one of the hosts said how excited she was to have the next vice president with them.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1lk36ox001m3b6mtjjnhkof@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cThat still sounds really weird,\u201d he said, shaking his head.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1lk36ox001n3b6mnzonjv1y@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cI know, but we\u2019ve got to keep saying it,\u201d she said.\n    <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"subheader inline-placeholder\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/subheader\/instances\/cm1lk3gnn001p3b6mxx2oi4vp@published\" data-component-name=\"subheader\" id=\"behind-the-scenes-and-on-the-stump\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n        Behind the scenes and on the stump<br \/>\n<\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1lk2fya00183b6m80384hfo@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Behind the scenes, the man who goofs around through doughnut shops and convenience stores can also be the\u00a0harder-nosed politician who won a longtime Republican\u00a0US\u00a0House seat by hustling around a district that didn\u2019t have its own major media market.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1lk4cyw001u3b6mvgwpxpsn@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Walz, according to people familiar with the internal discussions, was the one whom <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/09\/03\/politics\/jimmy-mccain-decries-trump-arlington-appearance\/index.html\">Jimmy McCain<\/a>, the late\u00a0Sen. John McCain\u2019s son, first reached out to when he wanted to endorse Harris.\u00a0Walz\u00a0was the one put on the phone with Joe Manchin when the West Virginia senator was demanding to talk to Harris as a pre-condition for\u00a0an\u00a0endorsement. (Manchin has since said he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/09\/24\/politics\/joe-manchin-not-endorse-harris-filibuster\/index.html\">was not endorsing Harris<\/a>.)\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1lk4jiw00203b6mhac8l3sr@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Walz\u00a0has also,\u00a0according to people who have been talking with him, been the conduit for former House colleagues and labor leaders, including conversations with firefighters\u2019 union president Ed Kelly that the\u00a0Harris\u00a0campaign is optimistic will soon help land an endorsement.\u00a0Or he\u2019s the one calling digital influencers to thank them for their posts about the campaign.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1lk4cyw001v3b6me7u2oe0z@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Walz spent part of a recent weekend replacing the seals on the washers and dryers in the house he\u2019s living in while the governor\u2019s mansion in St. Paul is being remodeled. Inspired to learn as they met a marching band on their August bus tour\u00a0in Georgia that Harris had played\u00a0the\u00a0French horn in high school,\u00a0Walz has mused to aides that that who they really should be going after is high school band kids and alumni \u2013 trust him, he says, that\u2019s the group with the best-organized infrastructure and email lists in a school.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1lk4cyw001w3b6mobijbvka@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Whatever Walz does, no one on his staff or\u00a0Harris\u2019\u00a0believes he can move the needle much\u00a0during Tuesday\u2019s\u00a0debate, especially\u00a0not\u00a0with a line or two. More than anything over those 90 minutes in the CBS studio\u00a0in New York, his aides\u00a0just want him to keep giving off that feeling of joy and reassurance.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1lk4cyw001x3b6mccjvdqii@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            To Tim Ryan, the former Ohio congressman who was lauded for his\u00a0performance in\u00a0two\u00a02022\u00a0debates against Vance in a\u00a0Senate race he went on to lose, that\u2019s the advice he relayed to Walz\u2019s team without talking to his old House colleague directly.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1lk4cyw001y3b6mal4toqju@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cIf I was Tim, I wouldn\u2019t be the least bit intimidated by (Vance),\u201d Ryan told CNN. \u201cJust be who you are. 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