Tim Walz At The DNC, The Harris Agenda, Gen Z Survey
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Former coach tim walls gave the democratic .

convention a pep talk, we got seventy six days. That's nothing that will be time to sleep in your dad. We're gonna leave IT on the beef.

How did he introduce himself?

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In a brief campaign, vice president Harris brought her party, new energy and money, and a clear lead in polling averages. Tonight, SHE addresses the convention and the country. So how does he describe what he would do if elected?

And a new survey of jensie finds that lots of teens don't feel chAllenged and don't think they're being prepared for the future. The big group and optimism between kids planning to go to college and those who are not stay with us, i'll give you the news. You need to start your day.

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That work, tim walls has been a national figure for barely two weeks.

and that's all the time that's passed since vice president Harris chose minnesota s governor as a running man. He is now familiar for his minnesota accent and his mockery of the republican ticket. And last ninety had a chance to tell the country more about who is N.

P. R. Political reporter. Alamo is here to talk about IT all. Good morning. Good morning. okay. So this was tim walls this moment to introduce himself to the nation, a prime time debo. How to do IT.

Well, his speech was part rally and cry for a vice president, Harris, and part introduction. He's an army national guard veteran turned teacher and high school football coach turned politician. But the coach role is the one he leaned into, you know? As he spoke, the crowd chanted and held up signs that said coach walls. He also took through many of the same issues that we hear Harris talk about, but he added his own midd western flair in minnesota.

We respect our neighbors and the personal choices they make. And even if we wouldn't make those same choices for ourselves, we've got a golden rule, mind your own down business.

And there he's talking about protecting reproductive rights of major issue for democratic voters.

Yeah, we heard a lot about neighborliness last night now before he was governor, walls was a congressman. He won as a democrat and a part of minnesota that was deeply red flipped. The republicans, see, what about him? Appeals to voters beyond the democratic base.

Well, walls gives off a different vibe that might appeal to folks outside of democrats orbit. You know, he's a camel wearing gun owner who's into dead rock. And above all, he's leaning into his midwestern roots.

And that's exactly where democrats hope he can excel. You know, in wisconsin, michigan, pensylvania those blue wall states that Harris needs in order to win the White house. And we heard some of that message .

in his speech. This is the part clip and save IT and send IT to your undecided relatives. So they know if you're middle class family or a family trying to get into the middle class, commoner Harris is going to cut your taxes.

There were some heavy hitters on stage last night, former president bill clinton, former speaker Nancy policy. There's also surprised. Appearance from Opera win free. What was I like?

I mean, I was Opera. I mean, I I was in the audience, and the crowd went wild when he walked in.

Please welcome Opera when free.

In her speech, SHE really called for unity when .

a houses on fire, we don't ask about the homeowners race or religion. We don't wonder who their partner is or how they vote IT. No, we just try to do the best weekend to save them.

And you laa Operas. No stranger to talking politics, SHE endorsed ed, former president brack obama, in two thousand and seven, and he kept backing democrats since then. And this is her first appearance at the dnc.

while a lot of the night was about celebrating the Harris walls ticket, IT also has some really serious moments. Tells more about that.

yeah. Earlier in the evening, we heard from the parents of harsh golden g. Polin, a Young american being held hostage by hamas in gaza. IT was a really emotional moment, and the crowd was noticeably moved.

But there was also controversy because leaders of the national uncommitted movement, who have delegates at the convention, had been pushing for a palestinian american to have a speaking spot as well, to also highlight what's happening to the people in gaza. And that request was denied. This is a group that has urged democrats to support a ceasefire in the war and have called for A U.

S. Arms embargo on israel. And this hits at a problem for democrats.

You know, they need every american muslim and progressive voters in order to win. But these are the same voters most turned off by the U. S.

Policy on the war that you, thank you.

Vice president Harris makes her bid to unify the democrats coalition. Tonight.

SHE delivers her convention speech. Her short campaign is allowed Harris to reach this point while saying much less the most candidates have about how he would govern. So where does he take the party now?

Npr White house cores wanted deeping a shiver room has been covering Harris and joins us from chicago 海底。

hey, good morning.

So we know a little bit about her economic plans, but not my jose will vice president heroes layout of vision tonight.

I mean, I think the important point to make here a is that this is still the vice president, right? And she's been number two to president by and for last four years. So his policy agenda has been her policy agenda too.

And they've been locked up on all these major issues. The selection like border security, the economy, reproductive rights and even foreign policy like the war in gaza. But what Harris now has the ability to do is SHE runs her own presidential campaign. I'll be a very short one, is to navigate some of this with a little more authority and to frame IT the way he wants to use the language he wants. And here is being a Younger candidate and biting and bringing in all this energy and money that the party didn't have just two months ago, she's been able to try and frame this election as a choice about the future and what a hero's presidency could build, rather than what trump offers. SHE has a phrase that crowds have now been chanting at rallies and at the dnc this week in chicago, which is we're not going back.

But none of that is very specific. I mean, how come?

Yeah, just last week, in a speech from north CarOlina, Harris talked about her agenda on lowering costs, the cost of groceries and prescription drugs and housing, giving people who are trying to owner home credit to help them, expanding the child tax credit, helping families with newborn e babies. These kinds of things are top issues for heroes. And there has been interest and questions about what here is foreign policy or criminal justice policy would look like. But so far, what she's put out is not like a detailed agenda that republicans have put forward.

But why hasn't SHE layed all that out?

Will look partly a matter of time, right? This is a very truncated presidential campaign. We could see more policy as the weeks go on. But currently this is a strategy that I mean, according to dug saucy, he was a former visor to former president doll clinton.

If you're lying now too much specifics, IT does give the other side of something to shoot at.

And south and told me that the most successful candidates, you know, connect with voters emotionally than intellectual is more important that Harris lays out to voters who he is and the value SHE stands for. So these broader visions for the country that Harris has been talking about, he says, makes more sense from a political strategy perspective rather than laying out policy papers, right?

Although voters may want to know exactly what her policies are in terms of her speech tonight, then what are you expect to hear from her?

I mean, keep in mind, this is you still a presidential campaign and and Harris is very new to the county and to a lot of voters. So a lot of this is going to be biographical explaining who SHE is, her story, and you'll be talking about her time as a prosecutor, the criminals SHE took on in california. And there's also gonna be elements of patriotic m here. And of course, that contrast to Donald .

trump and as deep. sure. And thank you.

Thank you.

Don't know about cheer household, but my kids are getting ready to return to school, and new survey finds that many teenagers do not feel chAllenged in school. They worry there not being prepared for the future. Npr cory Turners been looking at the results Carry. Good morning.

Good morning, Steve.

Which group of kids are we talking about?

We are talking about genie. So these teens and Young adults between twelve and twenty seven, although I am just going to focus on those who are now in middle and high school. So this survey is part of A A relatively new project from gale and the woolton family foundation and too quick disclosures or Steve walton is a funder of npr. And I have a genser in my house who I love very much same.

So we get but call IT straight. Go ahead.

The big headline for me from this surveys, the genee teens are feeling less engaged by school. Nearly every measure of school engagement on the survey declined this year compared to last year. For example, big drop in how many students say they recently learned something interesting at school. Now obviously, kids are not always gona love school, but a ten point drop in one year among the same kids.

That's worrying something happened according to this survey that makes them feel they're getting less out of the experience. What's behind that?

Well, it's not entirely clear. Uh, one thing that caught my eyes though, is a big engagement divide between teens who say they planned to go to college and those who don't. So of those planning to go to college, which is about half of genes, e tees, the overwhelming majority say they have a great future ahead. They're optimistic, but more than foreign ten gensec students say they don't have college plans, and they are a lot less optimistic. Now obviously, there are a bunch of reasons for this gap, but this is not because you have to go to college to feel .

good about the future. There is a kind of path that feels clear to many people of going to college and getting a good job um maybe a little less so in the other way. But what are the reasons behind the optimism?

Well, I think part of the problem here, Steve, is schools aren't doing a good job laying out that path. The students who say they don't want to go to college say their k twelve schools aren't helping them. Imagine the lives they do one.

For example, only about forty percent of non college bound gencer say they feel chAllenged in class in a good way. Um they're also less likely in college valentines to say there's an adult at school who makes them feel excited about the future or even encourage use them to pursue their dreams. Part of the problem, these teams say, is school staff spend a lot of time talking about college, but not alternatives. Here's aquino sy. He's a senior education researcher at gale.

Even the kids were like, I don't want to go to college. What are they hearing the most about college? We're not talking them about a to ships, in turn starting a business, entrepreneurial aspirations, jobs that don't .

require a college degree. Now, Steve, in school's defense, I should say this miss match was largely born out of good intentions, wanting kids to believe college can be for yeah.

And this is part of a big national discussion. People emphasize that your life is much Better. You make more money over time if you have a college degree. But do educators need to change their message for the large number of americans who just aren't gonna go to college?

I mean, I will say there has been a lot more talk in recent years about what's called career and technical education. IT was a big priority under president trump, under president biden. I should also say ministry of the tim walls, vice president Harris running mate, last year eliminated the need for a college diploma for three quarters of his state's government. Child, yeah. Still, this survey makes clear, lots of teams want to dream big just without college, and schools need to do Better by them.

Npr education corresponded correct. NER, thanks for the insights story. You will, Steve, and good luck to the kid.

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