The real problem with Tim Walz’s white guy code speak

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How do you do, fellow white people? Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) says hello!

The former vice presidential candidate recently told an audience at Harvard’s Kennedy School that former Vice President Kamala Harris chose him as a running mate because of his uncanny ability to connect with the average Caucasian cisgender dude. “I could code talk to white guys — watching football, fixing their truck,“ he explained. “I was the permission structure to say, ‘Look, you can do this and vote for this.’”

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