“We have the most pro-union, pro-worker President in the history of this country, and I say that as a union member,” Walz said. “So when we talk about building this country from the bottom up in the middle class as Joe Biden talks about, it’s about unions, it’s about personal freedoms, it’s about addressing our biggest issues and it’s about taking care of our littlest Americans.”

“The perfect Frankenstein Monster created by the Heritage Foundation,” Walz stated. “I read it (Vance’s book: Hillybilly Elegy) because I come from a town of 400. I had 24 kids in my graduating class, 12 were cousins. I know a little bit about small towns and his dismissive, derogatory approach to how he viewed it. It’s not a cultural bias that people had, it’s decades of policies against people like him…that gutted many of our small towns.”