Danny Shaw, professor of international affairs offers his insight about the current election taking place in the United States.
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00:00So, Tim Walz, first of all, he is, as we were saying early in this show, he is the vice
00:07presidential nominee and he is the running mate in the formula with Harris.
00:12He is also representing a more traditional way, he is, you know, the head of his family,
00:19he has his two children conceived using in vitro, so he is also an advocacy for the reproductive
00:27rights, not only of the women in terms of abortion, but also in terms of the families
00:34and the possibilities for families, for American families to conceive.
00:38Also, I want to stress this because now it comes an element that could be dual, because
00:44first of all, Minnesota was the state that saw the, sadly and terribly, the killing of
00:51George Floyd back in May, the 25th of May, 2020, and we saw the other face of a country
00:59that was stuck in a pandemic.
01:01We saw the racism and the police brutality broadcast firsthand, you know, we saw it on
01:07a screen, we saw the protests that erupted there, and that started the protests nationwide
01:16because we saw it went coast to coast in the U.S., the protests for the George Floyd killing.
01:23And that took the votes from Trump, so that's one thing, okay, on that matter, but there's
01:29also something that is waging now on Tim Walz, because he was the governor back then, in
01:35that moment, and he was late, you know, in taking action regarding this case, in taking
01:42action in the protest matter, in the issue of police brutality, in taking, you know,
01:49maybe action and being proactive in terms of justice, and that is waging on him, and
01:55it's dangerous for Kamala Harris because she is presenting herself as a black woman that
02:02is running for the President of the United States.
02:05So there is this dual element that him being the one carrying this weight on his shoulders,
02:13okay, and now presenting himself as the almost progressive white elite politician that accompanies
02:21a black woman.
02:22So, Danny, can you elaborate a little bit more on that?
02:25Yeah, I mean, I never heard Kamala Harris even mention the issue of policing and racial
02:33profiling and police brutality.
02:36The George Floyd torture and police murder sparked an uprising across the United States,
02:44an estimated, I think it was 16 million Americans participated in different protests after watching
02:51that heinous nine-minute traumatizing video, sucking the life out of this human being.
02:59And despite the demonization of George Floyd that came from Fox News and the like, no human
03:06being deserves to be treated in this type of cruel manner.
03:11I think your points about Tim Walz really add up.
03:16He's another individual who really played into this liberal, hollow, vacuous identity
03:23politics agenda, all types of talk and rhetoric with very little to show for.
03:29So that's the team that they try to put out there.
03:33So far, according to what we're seeing, the American people are not really buying it.
03:39But again, it's too early right now to know how it'll play out.
03:45What we did see with Tim Walz and J.D. Vance in the vice presidential debate, because Trump
03:52is such a vitriolic, quote-unquote, controversial individual and really gets off on an anti-politics,
04:00insulting the Democrats, which a lot of people love to hear.
04:05I can't help but chuckle myself when we heard the vice presidential debate.
04:12Both VP candidates were very sure to be as civil as possible.
04:17They wished each other's families well.
04:20J.D. Vance expressed a type of human sympathy because Tim Walz's family had gone through
04:27this and that.
04:28So they were really trying to tone down the rhetoric, because at the end of the day, the
04:33U.S. ruling class needs unity.
04:35If there is too much strife, like, they do benefit from all the algorithms based on strife.
04:42They do want to pump it up to a certain point.
04:45But after Trump was nearly assassinated back in June, look how quick Biden was to publicly
04:51call him.