Kamala Harris names her vice presidential running mate

Kamala Harris has selected Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to be her running mate in the race to be the next president.

The name was released by CNN on Tuesday.

The pair will now embark on a whirlwind tour of battleground states, scheduled to kick off with a rally in Pennsylvania on Tuesday and continuing through Michigan and Arizona.

Harris became her party's presumptive presidential nominee Friday after it was announced she had secured enough votes. It is expected she will become the official candidate at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago at the end of August.

Harris' announcement comes after former President Donald Trump, who ditched his previous Vice President Mike Pence after the two fell out in the wake of the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, selected Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) as his running mate.

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Vance, a venture capitalist who previously opposed Trump before being elected to the Senate on a MAGA platform, has seen a rocky rollout, with intense media scrutiny on his support for a total abortion ban and his attacks on childless women, which included him suggesting that parents should get extra votes for every child they have.

Harris' VP selection sets the stage for an intense battle between the two tickets leading up to the November election.