Jennifer Garner and Queer Eye’s Bobby Berk join Rural Voters for Harris call to celebrate Walz’s pick

Hollywood star Jennifer Garner and Queer Eye alum Bobby Berk joined rural Democratic activists on a Zoom call on Tuesday in celebrating Vice President Kamala Harris’s selection of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate.

The Zoom call, formally called Rural Voters for Harris, took place after Harris and Walz took the stage in Philadelphia for their first rally since he was tapped to join her on the Democratic party’s ticket.

Walz had been slated to make an appearance at the event before the announcement, but instead, Minnesota Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan spoke after his selection and hailed Walz as an opportunity to make inroads with rural voters.

“I know that you shouldn't sleep on seconds in command as lieutenant governor, and what I have watched in Kamala Harris has been just tremendous in inspiring leadership for me and for so many others all across the country,” she said on the call.

A Harris-Walz victory would elevate Flanagan to become the first Indigenous woman to become governor of any state.

“If I do say so myself, rural Democrats always have a way of taking time and opportunity where it's at, and so I'm very excited that on this day, we also get to celebrate historic announcement of Governor Tim Walz joining the ticket with our phenomenal present next president, Kamala Harris,” Anderson Clayton, the chairwoman of the North Carolina Democratic Party who has pushed for Democrats to appeal to Black and brown voters in rural areas, said on the call.

But the biggest stars of the event were celebrities Berk and Garner.

Berk for his part talked about his experience growing up in rural Missouri and his late Republican father.

“I really didn't have any hope that I was going to be able to change the