Van Jones: Republicans Should Be Scared of Tim Walz

FARAH GRIFFIN: “It could very much work. They’re up against somebody with very, very little message discipline.”
BASH: “And you were not so sure about Walz, you were — you can tell me if I‘m not characterizing your position this morning, right, I‘m sure you will, and — because there were Republicans who wanted Josh Shapiro — or were worried about Josh Shapiro.”
Jones: “The Republicans were scared of Josh Shapiro. Republicans were scared of Mark Kelly. They were not scared of Governor Walz. But they should be. They should be. Because what you just saw night was extraordinary. This was somebody — I‘ve heard from my most conservative friends and my most liberal friends and even my radical friends, everybody‘s like, ‘This guy is amazing because he talks like a normal person about stuff that people really care about and it‘s effective.’ And to David‘s point, Trump was ready to go with strength versus weakness, ‘I‘m strong, Biden‘s weak, give me the job.’ This is not that. This is old and sorry and pathetic and boring and doom and gloom versus young and exciting and fresh and new. That‘s a different fight. It‘s the past versus the future. It’s a completely different fight. The other thing is that Kamala Harris has managed to do something without relying on Donald Trump to do it. She has united this party. We used to say that the only thing that united this party is Donald Trump. She‘s not talking about Donald Trump. She‘s talked about a future you can believe in. She‘s giving people hope. She picked somebody that did not look like her, ain’t from where she‘s from, and they fit together like Legos. It is an unbelievable feeling that‘s sweeping through the country, and Donald Trump is scared and he should be.”