Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz accepted the Democratic Party’s official vice presidential nomination Thursday in a speech at the party’s national convention in Chicago, where he said the November election would be a fight for freedom.
“We are all here for one simple reason: We love this country,” the candidate said on the third night of the convention. “This election is about freedom,” he said, referring to reproductive freedom and the freedom to be free from gun violence and to live as one sees fit.
Walz focused much of his message on the problems and needs of the middle class and the most disadvantaged, speaking about his humble origins and growing up in a rural Nebraska village with a population of just 400.