Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz hit the stage at a labor union convention in southern California on Aug. 13, touting his teaching background and pro-worker message in his first solo appearance since joining the Democratic Party ticket last week.
“The vice president and I, we know exactly who built this country. It was nurses, it was teachers, and it was state and local government employees that built this nation,” Walz said in a Los Angeles ballroom filled with thousands of members of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) union.
“People in this room built the middle class. That’s not just a saying, it’s a fact: when unions are strong, America is strong.”…