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Vice President Kamala Harris is set to hit the campaign trail with her newly-announced running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. Peter Alexander, Garrett Haake, Steve Kornacki and Symone Sanders Townsend join Meet the Press NOW to discuss how his selection will influence the Harris campaign

NBC Analyst: Walz Doesn’t Broaden Democrat Appeal to Blue-Collar Voters

NBC News political correspondent Steve Kornacki said Tuesday that Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate, does not help the Democrat ticket in blue-collar areas and small communities in key Rust Belt states, based on his 2022 reelection performance in Minnesota.

Kornacki appeared on Meet the Press NOW on Tuesday, where he dove into the contours of the 2022 Minnesota gubernatorial race between Walz and Republican Scott Jensen and how it provides insight into whether or not Walz can make inroads with blue-collar and small-town voters that Democrats have “fallen behind” with.

“If you’re talking about boosting the Democrats in Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, you’re talking about, ‘Can you do something in those states where Democrats have lost all that ground?’Looking at what Walz did in Minnesota, you don’t see that value add,” he said…

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