Walz boasts he’s not ‘in the pocket’ of organized labor: ‘I am the pocket!’

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) boasted on Monday that he’s “the pocket” of unions, as he and Vice President Harris court support from the critical voting bloc in several "blue wall" states to mark Labor Day.

“Republicans came up to me in one of my campaigns and they said, ‘Tim is in the pocket of organized labor.’ I said, that’s a damn lie. I am the pocket,” Walz told the crowd at Laborfest in Milwaukee.

“And I told them, if you want to attack me for standing up for collective bargaining...