The 2024 presidential race is heating up as Vice President Kamala Harris locked in Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate. While relatively unknown to the rest of the country, Walz has risen to prominence in the Midwest as a political figure who pushed forward historic efforts to expand child tax credits and called out the effects of Trump-era tariffs on rural farmers in the region. As the Harris-Walz ticket continues gaining popularity against former President Donald Trump and his running mate JD Vance, Rachelle Akuffo, Ben Werschkul, and Rick Newman break down both sides’ agendas and how they may impact the overall economy.

Wolfe Research's head of US policy and politics, Tobin Marcus, also joins the Capitol Gains crew to analyze the influence of vice presidential candidates in elections and how Harris’s campaign will differ from both her own and Biden’s 2020 campaigns. He explains that vice presidential picks have benefits in their home states, but not necessarily on a national level. As Harris’ agenda, Marcus explains, “The question in large part is going to be how successful she is in pivoting away from some of those policy positions that she took in 2019 and 2020… If she were to run on her Democratic primary campaign platform from 2020, which included decriminalizing border crossings and fracking and Medicare for all, among others, that would be, I think, politically toxic and a short loser.”

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