{"id":33590,"date":"2024-08-07T11:12:44","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T15:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=33590"},"modified":"2024-08-07T11:35:27","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T15:35:27","slug":"nelsen-comments-on-harris-vp-pick-walz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/nelsen-comments-on-harris-vp-pick-walz\/","title":{"rendered":"Nelsen comments on Harris VP pick, Walz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In two FOX Carolina News segments airing Aug. 6, Furman University&#8217;s Brent Nelsen explained why Kamala Harris&#8217; VP pick, Minn. Gov. Tim Walz, might appeal to blue collar voters in the 2024 presidential election. Nelsen, the Jane Fishburne Hipp Professor of Politics and International Affairs, said Harris&#8217; selection could make for a tight race between the democratic and republican parties all the way to the end of the election. Learn more in the <a href=\"https:\/\/mms.tveyes.com\/Transcript.asp?StationID=2730&amp;DateTime=8%2F6%2F2024+6%3A22%3A37+PM&amp;u=814822&amp;e=true&amp;t=False&amp;aln=68249578\">6 p.m.<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/mms.tveyes.com\/Transcript.asp?StationID=2730&amp;DateTime=8%2F6%2F2024+10%3A50%3A52+PM&amp;u=814822&amp;e=true&amp;t=False&amp;aln=79080610\">10 p.m.<\/a> broadcasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following Vice President Kamala Harris&#8217; pick for her running mate, Furman&#8217;s Brent Nelsen offers his take on what it means for the upcoming election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":26318,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1569,6,32],"tags":[1874,411,2942],"class_list":["post-33590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fox-carolina","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs","tag-2024-presidential-election","tag-kamala-harris","tag-tim-walz"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33590"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33593,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33590\/revisions\/33593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}