Can Tim Walz help Kamala Harris win the election in the Midwest? Here's what we know about the newly-named vice presidential candidate.
And Walz, Harris's choice, has been at the forefront of the attacks on Republican Donald Trump, labeling him “weird” during a July appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” NBC News noted. The characterization stuck among Democrats.During a fundraiser for Harris on Monday in Minneapolis, Walz said, according to The Associated Press: “It wasn’t a slur to call these guys weird. It was an observation.
Trump won Michigan and Wisconsin in 2016, and although he lost four years later he is focused on the states again during this campaign. And he is eyeing Minnesota too. The area is seen as critical to a presidential win for Harris. As governor, he also had to respond to sometimes violent protests that followed the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer in 2020. Republicans said he was too slow to deploy the National Guard after requests from the mayors of Minneapolis and St. Paul.
A Nebraska native, Walz has a folksy style that matches his background as a former high school social studies teacher, football coach and Army National Guardsman. He served in Congress in an agricultural district in Minnesota and won re-election in the district even as it swung to Trump in 2016.
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