Vice President Kamala Harris has tapped Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, capping a historically compressed v
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz arrives at a press conference near Target Field on June 24, 2024, at ahead of the U.S. Gymnastics Olympic Trials in Minneapolis.
"He’s a smart choice if they deploy him in two specific ways," said Blois Olson, a political analyst for WCCO radio in Minneapolis-St. Paul."Send him to rural areas to counter the polarization and the idea that only Republicans can win there. And have him keep the deep left base satisfied, which could be an issue with a very moody voting bloc."
Now that he is Harris’ running mate, we are on the lookout for claims by and about Walz to fact-check — just as we are for Harris and former President Donald Trump and his vice presidential pick, Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio. Readers can email us suggestions to When he was elected to Congress, Walz represented a district that had sent Republicans to Washington for 102 of the previous 114 years, according to the Almanac of American Politics.
Still, Walz’s three-week meteoric rise on the national scene stemmed after calling Trump, Vance and other Republicans in their circle"weird.", Walz predicted that Harris would win older, white voters because she was talking about substance, including schools, jobs and environmental policy.
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