Vice President Kamala Harris, who is Democrats’ torchbearer for this year’s presidential election after the withdrawal from that race of President Joe Biden, announced this Tuesday that she selected Minnesota Democratic Governor Tim Walz to be her running mate.
“It is the honor of a lifetime to join @kamalaharris in this campaign. I’m all in. Vice President Harris is showing us the politics of what’s possible. It reminds me a bit of the first day of school. So, let’s get this done, folks! Join us,” said a social media post from Walz on Tuesday that was approaching two million views on X (formerly Twitter) before even two hours had passed.
Harris and Walz will be facing Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), whose time in elected office begins and ends with his current, unfinished Senate term that he won in 2022 with public support from Trump.
The Democratic duo, meanwhile, is quickly returning to the campaign trail, with a multi-state sweep planned for coming days starting with a Tuesday night Pennsylvania event. Based on his publicly available schedule, it appears that Trump will personally be appearing at just a single campaign event in coming days: a rally in Montana, which is not highly populated compared to some other states and was not particularly close in recent presidential elections, spurring some circulating questions about expending campaign energy there in what could turn out to be another close race.
Since Harris moved to the front of the Democratic Party’s efforts this year, support already started absolutely pouring in, including in the form of hundreds of millions of dollars in fundraising. Harris also quickly started racking up endorsements from Democratic Party figures who might have challenged her for the nomination in Biden’s absence, swiftly dashing any real prospect of serious intra-party turmoil after Biden’s withdrawal.
