Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz sat down for an interview with “The Late Show” host Stephen Colbert because the whirlwind marketing campaign attracts to a detailed. The 2 sat down at Johnson Corridor Espresso Home within the Philadelphia suburb of Hulmeville, the place each campaigns have been vying for Pennsylvania’s 19 electoral votes.
Whereas Colbert drank espresso, he made positive to pour the Minnesota governor a cup of Weight-reduction plan Mountain Dew—one thing he and Kamala Harris are famously keen on. Former highschool trainer Walz informed Colbert the “highs” of the marketing campaign included assembly People throughout the nation and attending to see so lots of the former college students who got here out to see and assist him. He added that there actually weren’t any “lows.”
“Not even sharing the stage with JD Vance?” Colbert requested.
“Okay, that was not great,” Walz conceded.
Colbert requested Walz if it “mystifies” him that polling reveals the election is so shut.
“No. It disappoints me, because I think that the choice is so stark. But it’s not surprising. The country is really divided,” Walz defined. “There’s been a group of people out there who figured that out, and I think they’ve done a wonderful job of making people think it doesn’t matter, everybody’s the same.”
Walz pointed to the racism slung at Puerto Ricans by Trump-world within the closing week of the marketing campaign as indicative of the distinction.
The 2 males then joked about guilty-pleasure dad movies that element mundane actions like carpet cleansing and steel lathing. Colbert pulled out a pill to point out Walz a video of somebody restoring a World Battle II-era desk lighter.
Colbert then requested whether or not the previous highschool soccer coach can be keen to provide a closing marketing campaign pep speak utilizing sports activities movie clichés offered on a card by “The Late Show” writers.
Walz was sport.
“All proper, of us, time to dig down deep. We all know that we’re within the closing two minutes of this sport. We’ll give 110%. We all know we’ve to depart it on the sector, as a result of, look, democracy’s at stake right here. We’ve a possibility to deliver this nation collectively. There is not any ‘I’ in ‘country.’”
Each males agreed—that final line was “good.”
“So, look, we’re going to win this thing. We’ve got the best candidate. We got the best quarterback out there in Kamala Harris, we got the best game plan,” Walz continued. “We know their game plan of Project 2025 isn’t going to be good for any of us. And so, creating an opportunity economy, we’re going to put the ball over the goal line. We’re going to win this thing here in the final minute. And then we’re going to celebrate on Wednesday morning with, with our quarterback, President Harris.”
“And we have the meats.”
Walz is simply so nice at this. Right here’s hoping we get to see far more of him as the following vp of the US.
