MSNBC host Rachel Maddow said that the network’s fellow hosts, reporters and commentators gave Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz a round of applause and cheered for him during his Democratic National Convention (DNC) speech on Wednesday night.
“I had no idea it was going to be like that,” Maddow said Wednesday night after Walz formally accepted his party’s nomination for vice president. “The room in here, in terms of our little crowd at MSNBC mothership, everybody got out of their seats and started stamping and clapping.”
Former football players from Mankato West High School, where Walz once coached, appeared on stage Wednesday night at the DNC to support him in a moment that was being widely shared online.
After Walz finished his speech, Maddow said that the moment was electrifying for her and other MSNBC hosts in the room.
“I was probably …