The Harris campaign posted a video to its YouTube channel this afternoon showing Harris and Walz discussing their upbringings including the music they listened to and what it was like growing up in different parts of the country.
Walz said he loved Bruce Springsteen and Bob Seger. Harris said she loved Aretha Franklin and Prince.
Walz explained that his father died when he was 19 as a result of chain smoking. He spoke about life afterward and the importance of programs that help prevent people from dropping into poverty.
“After he died, my mom was a stay-at-home mom,” Walz said. “She became our rock, and now she had to go out and get work because the medical bills broke her and Social Security and Social Security survivor benefits, we’re fine pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.”
Harris talked about how her parents were active in the Civil Rights Movement and how that partially inspired her to become a lawyer. She also said that when she was in high school, she found out her best friend was being molested by the friend’s stepfather and Harris said she had to come live with them.
“It was the first time that I realized how not everyone can take their safety for granted and what we should all feel as a sense of responsibility to protect people from harm,” she said. “That’s why I decided to become a prosecutor.”
Harris said she specialized in child sexual assault cases and she said she created a unit focused on children who were being abused.
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