Businessman Mark Cuban — known in part for his participation in the ABC program “Shark Tank” — is expressing support for Vice President Kamala Harris’ selection for her running mate in this year’s general election: Minnesota Democratic Governor Tim Walz.
“On the @tim_walz choice, I think people who don’t like it are missing the lesson of the switch to Harris,” Cuban argued on X, formerly called Twitter. “She went from worst to first as people got to know her. It’s not a reach to think the same thing will happen with Walz. People are tired of the ideologues and hate from both parties. They want to vote for normal people they can relate to. Walz can sit at the kitchen table and make you feel like you have [known] him forever. That’s an incredible skill these days.”
Walz’s background includes time in the National Guard, as a schoolteacher, and in Congress. As governor of Minnesota, he became known in recent years for presiding over the implementation of a raft of progressive policy, from universal free school lunches to gun reform including an expansion of background check requirements for transfers of firearms. And just very recently, he helped kickstart the campaign messaging that declares Trump and close allies of the latter to be just plain “weird” in the most straightforward sense — off-putting and out of place in power.
Harris and Walz are quickly taking to the campaign trail, starting with a Tuesday event taking place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania — what became a key state in the 2020 presidential election that put Biden in the presidency. And after that, Harris is hitting what one report said would be a total of seven states, focusing on areas where Democrats have either narrowly prevailed recently or fell just short of an electoral win. Trump’s public schedule, meanwhile, shows just one forthcoming rally appearance for the ex-president — in Montana.
