Valley Democrats and Republicans react to Walz as Harris VP pick

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- The caller antiauthoritarian summons for the 2024 statesmanlike run is complete: Harris-Walz.

Supporters see Dezie Woods-Jones.

She's the president for Black Women Organized for Political Action and helped run for Vice President Harris erstwhile she ran for legislature successful 2016.

Woods says Harris needs idiosyncratic not lone qualified for vice president, but idiosyncratic she clicks with.

"I deliberation what was important for maine is that Kamala picked idiosyncratic that she truly felt compatible with," said Woods-Jones.

The Minnesota politician Tim Walz, passed infrastructure investments, chopped taxes for moving families and passed a instrumentality to supply paid permission to families successful his state.

First Vice Chair of the Fresno County Democratic Party, Marsha Contant, says those policies marque him a bully acceptable for the antiauthoritarian ticket.

"He's been precise pro-choice and precise favorable towards IVF," said Contant. "He's a proponent of weapon safety, weapon regulations and helium was not ever that way, but astatine immoderate constituent that changed for him and helium has supported that and he's pro LGBTQ rights."

Former Valley Republican Representative, Connie Conway agrees Walz apt aligns with Harris agenda, but knows not everyone supports Walz.

"My idiosyncratic opinion, we each similar each different heavy down inside. It's conscionable a question of policy, truthful we don't hold with policies and Governor Waltz whitethorn beryllium precise fashionable successful Minnesota, possibly the majority, though I've seen immoderate that are not successful favour of his policies," said Conway.

Conway adds for her, what's astir important is simply a summons that cares astir the Central Valley.

"We're not the richest spot successful California. So it's important to Republicans and Democrats. So I'm hoping that we instrumentality to policy, and we instrumentality to issues that are important to the Central Valley," said Conway.

As the dial turns guardant astatine the telephone slope advocates accidental the enthusiasm is for Harris-Walz volition turn astatine the ballot box.

"She wants not lone idiosyncratic who tin assistance present again votes, and surely situation those radical who person been connected the enactment -- to look astatine the existent options that they present face," said Woods-Jones.

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