Tim Walz Explained

Tim Walz
Order:41st
Office:Governor of Minnesota
Lieutenant:Peggy Flanagan
Term Start:January 7, 2019
Predecessor:Mark Dayton
Office1:Ranking Member of the House Veterans'
Affairs Committee
Term Start1:January 3, 2017
Term End1:January 3, 2019
Predecessor1:Mark Takano (acting)
Successor1:Phil Roe
State2:Minnesota
Term Start2:January 3, 2007
Term End2:January 3, 2019
Predecessor2:Gil Gutknecht
Successor2:Jim Hagedorn
Birth Name:Timothy James Walz
Birth Date:6 April 1964
Birth Place:West Point, Nebraska, U.S.
Party:Democratic (DFL)
Children:2
Residence:Governor's Residence
Eastcliff Mansion[1]
Signature:TimWalzSignature.svg
Branch:
Battles:
Unit:1st Battalion, 125th Field Artillery Regiment
Serviceyears:1981–2005
Rank:Command sergeant major

Timothy James Walz (; born April 6, 1964) is an American politician, former educator, and retired United States Army non-commissioned officer who has served since 2019 as the 41st governor of Minnesota. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 2007 to 2019, and the ranking member of the House Veterans Affairs Committee from 2017 to 2019. Walz was the Democratic nominee for vice president in the 2024 U.S. presidential election.

Walz was born in West Point, Nebraska. After high school, he joined the Army National Guard and worked in a factory. He later graduated from Chadron State College in Nebraska and then moved to Minnesota in 1996. Before running for Congress, he was a high school social studies teacher and football coach. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for in 2006, defeating six-term Republican incumbent Gil Gutknecht.

Walz was reelected to the House five times before he was elected governor of Minnesota in 2018 and reelected in 2022. During his second gubernatorial term, he pushed for and signed a wide range of legislation including tax modifications, free school meals, bolstering state infrastructure, universal gun background checks, codifying abortion rights, and free college tuition for low-income families.

On August 6, 2024, Vice President Kamala Harris announced Walz as her running mate in the 2024 election. Their ticket was defeated by Donald Trump and JD Vance on November 5, 2024.

Early life and education

Timothy James Walz was born on April 6, 1964,[2] in West Point, Nebraska, at Memorial Hospital.[3] His mother, Darlene Rose Reiman, was a homemaker[4] [5] and grew up on a farm.[6] His father, James Frederick Walz, was a teacher and school superintendent who served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War,[7] and had worked in the family's butcher shop as a child.[8] Tim is of German, Swedish, Luxembourgish, and Irish descent;[9] in 1867 his great-great-grandfather Sebastian Walz emigrated to the United States from Kuppenheim, Germany.[10] One of his grandmothers was Swedish American,[11] and one of his great-grandmothers was Irish American.[12] He was raised Catholic.[13]

Walz and his three siblings grew up in Valentine, Nebraska,[14] a small rural town in the north-central part of the state, in an area of farms and ranchland near the South Dakota border.[15] [16] In school, he played football and basketball and ran track. After school, he went hunting with his friends. While Walz was in high school, his father, who was the school superintendent and a chain smoker, was diagnosed with lung cancer. After his father's diagnosis, his family moved to the rural farming community of Butte, Nebraska to be closer to his mother's relatives.[17] [18] During summers, Walz worked on the family farm. He graduated from Butte High School in 1982 in a class of 25 students[19] and then went to Chadron, Nebraska for college.[20]

Walz's father died in January 1984,[21] leaving his mother and younger brother dependent on Social Security survivor benefits for support.[22] He was devastated and drifted from Nebraska to Texas, where he took courses at the University of Houston in East Asian studies and served in the Texas Army National Guard.[23] Then he went to Jonesboro, in northeast Arkansas, where he built tanning beds in a factory and was an instructor in the Arkansas Army National Guard.

Walz returned to Nebraska in 1987 to continue his education at Chadron State College; he participated in student government there and was an honor student.[24] [25] He graduated in 1989 with a Bachelor of Science degree in social science education.[26]

Early career

Teaching

After graduating from Chadron State College, Walz accepted a one-year teaching position with WorldTeach at Foshan No.1 High School in Guangdong, China.[27] He went to teach in August 1989, following the Tiananmen Square protests and subsequent government crackdown in June of that year.[28] [29] [30] Upon returning to the U.S., Walz became a teacher and coach in Alliance, a town of 10,000 in western Nebraska,[31] and in 1993 was named an Outstanding Young Nebraskan by the Nebraska Junior Chamber of Commerce.[32] [33]

While working as a teacher, Walz met his wife, Gwen Whipple, a fellow teacher, and in 1994 the two married. Two years later, they moved to Mankato, Minnesota, in Gwen's home state. Walz worked as a geography teacher and football coach at Mankato West High School. The football team had lost 27 straight games when he joined the coaching staff as a defensive coordinator.[34] Three years later, in 1999, the team won its first state championship.[35] [36]

In 1999, Walz agreed to be the faculty advisor of Mankato West High School's first gay–straight alliance.[37] [38] [39] He felt it was important that as a married, heterosexual football coach and soldier, he could show how different worlds can coexist.[40] For nine years he and his wife ran Educational Travel Adventures,[41] which organized summer educational trips to China for high-school students.[42] [43] Walz earned a master of science in experiential education from Minnesota State University, Mankato, in 2002,[44] writing his master's thesis on Holocaust education.[45] In March 2006, he took a leave of absence from teaching to run for Congress.[46]

Military service

With his father's encouragement, Walz enlisted in the Army National Guard two days after he turned 17. His father had served during the Korean War and earned his education degree with the G.I. Bill; he wanted his son to have the same opportunity.

Walz served in the National Guard for 24 years after enlisting in 1981.[47] During his military career, he had postings in Arkansas, Texas, near the Arctic Circle in Norway; New Ulm, Minnesota, northwest of Mankato; Italy, and elsewhere.[48] He trained in heavy artillery. During his service he worked in disaster response postings following floods and tornadoes and was deployed overseas. In 1989, he earned the title of Nebraska Citizen-Soldier of the Year.[49] [50] After Walz completed the 20 years of service needed to retire from the Guard, he reenlisted instead of retiring, later citing the September 11, 2001 attacks as the reason for his reenlistment.[51] [52] He was able to retire as of August 2002, according to the National Guard.[53] In August 2003, he deployed with the Minnesota National Guard to Vicenza, Italy, for nine months, to serve with the European Security Force as part of Operation Enduring Freedom.[54] [55] He attained the rank of command sergeant major near the end of his service[56] and briefly was the senior enlisted soldier of 1st Battalion, 125th Field Artillery Regiment.[57] Walz's decorations include the Army Commendation Medal, two Army Achievement Medals, two National Defense Service Medals, a Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, and an Army Reserve Components Achievement Medal with five oak leaf clusters.[58] [59] [60]

On February 10, 2005, Walz filed official documents to run for the U.S. House of Representatives.[61] In March, the National Guard announced a possible deployment of around 2,000 soldiers from across the Minnesota National Guard to Iraq sometime in the next two years.[62] Walz said he would deploy if called upon.[63] The National Guard finished processing his retirement paperwork in May, and Walz retired from military service on May 16. He later explained that he retired in order to focus on his campaign for Congress and did not want to violate the Hatch Act, which forbids some political activities by federal government employees.[61] [64] The Minnesota National Guard confirmed that Walz retired two months before his former unit was notified on July 14 of its potential deployment to Iraq. That unit received its mobilization order in August and deployed to Iraq in March 2006, ten months after Walz retired.[65] [66] [67]

During his political career, Republicans, notably Donald Trump Jr., Charlie Kirk, and JD Vance, have used the timing of Walz's military retirement as a smear campaign that has been compared to swiftboating.[68] [69] A National Guard colleague, Joe Eustice, recalled that at the time Walz retired, his unit's deployment was only a "rumor" and not yet confirmed, while his enlisted superior, Doug Julin, said that Walz bypassed his retirement approval, instead receiving retirement approval from two higher-ranked officers.[70] [71] [72] Though he was serving as a command sergeant major at the time of his retirement, Walz's final military rank for retirement benefit purposes is master sergeant, as he had not completed the required academic coursework to remain a command sergeant major before his retirement. The National Guard processed the adjustment of his rank in September 2005, but the effective date was made retroactive to the day before his military retirement in May 2005. A public affairs officer for the Minnesota National Guard in 2018 said it was "legitimate for Walz to say he served as a command sergeant major".[73] A reference to Walz on his official campaign website as a "retired command sergeant major" was later updated to read he "once served at the command sergeant major rank".[74]

Walz did not deploy to an active combat zone during his service.[75] At a meeting about reducing gun violence in 2018, he argued for some kinds of reform, saying, "We can make sure that those weapons of war that I carried in war is the only place where those weapons are at."[76] [77] The use of the phrase "in war" on this one occasion was criticized by Vance. The Harris campaign responded that Walz "misspoke".

Political involvement

Walz became first active in politics in August 2004, when he volunteered for John Kerry's presidential campaign. He was inspired to volunteer in the presidential election after he took a group of students to a George W. Bush rally in Mankato,[78] and was angered by the security team's questioning of his students' politics after they saw a Kerry sticker on a student's wallet.[79] [80] He was appointed the Kerry campaign's coordinator for his county as well as a district coordinator of Vets for Kerry.[81] In January 2005, Walz completed the three-day campaigns and elections crash course at Camp Wellstone,[82] a program run by Wellstone Action, the nonprofit organization Mark and David Wellstone created to carry on the work of their parents, Paul Wellstone and Sheila Wellstone.[83] [84]

U.S. House of Representatives (2007–2019)

Elections

On February 10, 2005, Walz filed to run for the U.S. House of Representatives from Minnesota's 1st congressional district.[85] The district consisted mostly of Republican-leaning independents.[86] [87] He had no opponent for the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL) nomination in the 2006 primary election.[88] In the general election, he faced Republican Gil Gutknecht, a six-term incumbent.[89] During the campaign, Walz accused Gutknecht of extending tax cuts to "Wall Street" and sought to tie Gutknecht to President George W. Bush.[90] [91] A centerpiece of Walz's campaign was opposition to the Iraq War, as the war's popularity was declining that year.[87] Walz won the election with 53% of the vote. After his victory, Politico said Gutknecht had been caught "off guard" and Walz had "resolved never to get caught like that himself.... He packaged himself as a moderate from Day One, built an office centered on constituent service and carved out a niche as a tireless advocate for veterans."[92]

Walz was reelected in 2008 with 62% of the vote, becoming only the second non-Republican to win a second full term in the district. He won a third term in 2010 with 49% of the vote in a three-way race against Republican state representative Randy Demmer and independent former diplomat Steve Wilson.[93] He was reelected by comfortable margins in 2012 and 2014.[94] In 2016, Walz was narrowly reelected to a sixth term, defeating Republican Jim Hagedorn, who later succeeded Walz as congressman, by 0.7% (or 2,548 votes), even as his district overwhelmingly voted for Donald Trump in the concurrent presidential election.[13] After that, and as his district trended more Republican, Walz did not seek a seventh term in 2018, instead running for governor.[13]

Congressional tenure

Swearing in at the beginning of the 110th Congress, Walz became the highest-ranking retired enlisted soldier ever to serve in Congress,[95] [96] as well as only the fourth Democrat/DFLer to represent his district. The others were Thomas Wilson (1887–1889), William Harries (1891–1893), and Tim Penny (1983–1995). Even as he represented a district that had usually voted Republican, pundits described Walz's policy positions as ranging from moderate to progressive.[97]

In his first month in Congress, Walz was appointed to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, the Agriculture Committee, and the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee; Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued a special waiver exempting him from the order that barred most freshman members of Congress from serving on more than two committees.[98] [99] That same year he was appointed to the Armed Services Committee.[100] In his first week as a legislator, Walz cosponsored a bill to raise the minimum wage, voted for stem cell research, voted to allow Medicare to negotiate pharmaceutical prices, and voiced support for pay-as-you-go budget rules, requiring that new spending or tax changes not add to the federal deficit.[101]

An opponent of the Iraq war, Walz opposed the Bush administration's plan to send an additional 21,500 troops to Iraq in 2007.[102] But he voted in favor of a bill in May of that year that provided nearly $95 billion in funding for the war through September 30. Walz explained that his vote was to ensure the safety of American troops while also saying he would continue to negotiate a process to pull troops from Iraq.[103] He reiterated his support for ending the war in October, and called on those who opposed the war to "have their voice be heard".[104]

During the economic crisis in 2008, Walz repeatedly spoke out against using taxpayer money to bail out financial institutions; in late September, he voted against the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program bill, which purchased troubled assets from these institutions.[105] Walz released a statement after the bill's passage, saying: "The bill we voted on today passes the buck when it comes to recouping the losses taxpayers might suffer. I also regret that this bill does not do enough to help average homeowners, or provide sufficient oversight of Wall Street."[106] [107] In December 2008, Walz voted against the bill that offered $14 billion in government loans to bail out the country's large automobile manufacturers.[108] In June 2009, he introduced a bipartisan resolution calling on the federal government to "relinquish its temporary ownership interests in the General Motors Company and the Chrysler Group, LLC, as soon as possible" and said that the government must not be involved in those companies' management decisions.[109]

Walz voted for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.[110] As a member of the House Transportation Committee, he saw the stimulus bill as an opportunity to work "with his congressional colleagues to make job creation through investment in public infrastructure like roads, bridges and clean energy the cornerstone of the economic recovery plan".[111] Walz has focused heavily on job and economic issues important to the southern Minnesota district he represented in Congress, which has a mix of larger employers such as the Mayo Clinic and small businesses and agricultural interests. In July 2009, he voted for the Enhancing Small Business Research and Innovation Act, which he called "part of our long-term economic blueprint to spur job creation by encouraging America's entrepreneurs to innovate toward breakthrough technological advancements".[112] [113] Walz urged assistance for hog and dairy farmers who struggled with lower prices for their commodities in 2008 and 2009.[114] Voting for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act,[115] Walz pointed to its strong provisions in support of public school buildings.[116] He is on record supporting legislation to lower tuition costs.[117] In a February 2009 speech, he said that the most important thing to do "to ensure a solid base for [America's] economic future ... is to provide the best education possible for [American] children."[118] Walz has received strong backing for these policies from many interest groups, including the National Education Association, the American Association of University Women, and the National Association of Elementary School Principals.[119]

In February 2008, Walz endorsed the candidacy of Barack Obama in the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries.[120] During the Obama administration, he voted to advance the Affordable Care Act out of the House.[121] [122] Walz was a significant supporter of the STOCK Act, which bans congressional insider trading. Obama signed it into law in April 2012.[123] Walz also met with the Dalai Lama and served on a commission monitoring human-rights in China.[124]

During the 2013 federal government shutdown, Walz chose not to accept his congressional pay, instead donating it to hunger-relief organizations.[125] He accused the political Tea Party movement of contributing to the shutdown, calling it "reckless" and "completely avoidable". "No one should be patting themselves on the back about doing the basic work of government", Walz said.[126] In 2016, he voted to condemn UN Security Council Resolution 2334, which called the building of Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories a violation of international law.[127]

Walz was ranked the 7th-most bipartisan House member during the 114th Congress (and the most bipartisan member from Minnesota) in the Bipartisan Index created by the Lugar Center and the McCourt School of Public Policy, which ranks members of Congress by measuring how often their bills attract co-sponsors from the opposite party and how often they co-sponsor bills by members of the opposite party.[128] [129] In early 2015, he endorsed the candidacy of Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries.[130]

In 2017, Walz was floated as a possible candidate for the 2018 special election for the U.S. Senate seat held by Al Franken, even though Walz had already announced his campaign for governor.[131] He declined to run and endorsed Lieutenant Governor Tina Smith after she launched her campaign for the seat.[132]

Committee assignments

Caucus memberships

Commissions

Governor of Minnesota (2019–present)

Elections

2018

See also: 2018 Minnesota gubernatorial election. In March 2017, after Mark Dayton, the incumbent governor, chose not to seek another term, Walz announced he would run for governor.[139] His main opponent in the Democratic primary was originally state representative Erin Murphy, who won the state party endorsement at the party's convention in June 2018.[140] [141] Shortly thereafter, state attorney general Lori Swanson entered the race late in the campaign. Walz defeated Murphy and Swanson in the August primary election with a 41.60% plurality.[142] [143] On November 6, 2018, he was elected governor, defeating the Republican nominee, Hennepin County commissioner Jeff Johnson, 53.84% to 42.43%.[144]

2022

See also: 2022 Minnesota gubernatorial election. Walz sought reelection in 2022.[145] He won the August 9 Democratic primary and faced Republican nominee Scott Jensen in the November general election. On November 8, 2022, Walz defeated Jensen, 52.3% to 44.6%.[146] [147]

Tenure

Walz was sworn in as governor of Minnesota on January 7, 2019, at the Fitzgerald Theater in Saint Paul. He took the oath of office alongside the incoming lieutenant governor, Peggy Flanagan; Minnesota secretary of state Steve Simon; Minnesota state auditor Julie Blaha; and Minnesota attorney general Keith Ellison, all Democrats.[148] Walz spoke about education and healthcare reform in his inauguration speech.[149]

Later in 2019, President Donald Trump appointed Walz to the bipartisan Council of Governors; in 2021 President Joe Biden appointed Walz as a co-chairman of the Council of Governors.[150] In 2023, Walz was named chair of the Democratic Governors Association, a high-profile position that involves supporting other governors in tight races.[151] He stepped down after being selected as Kamala Harris's running mate. Kansas governor Laura Kelly succeeded him as chair.[152]

Police reform and protest response

See also: George Floyd protests in Minneapolis–Saint Paul.

On May 26, 2020, the day after the murder of George Floyd, Walz and Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan demanded justice and called the video of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on George Floyd's neck "disturbing".[153] Walz elaborated, "The lack of humanity in this disturbing video is sickening. We will get answers and seek justice".[153]

In response to riots in Minnesota, Walz partially activated the Minnesota National Guard on May 28, and fully activated it on May 30.[154] President Trump reacted to Walz's actions by saying that he was "very happy" and that he did "fully agree with the way [Walz] handled it ... what [the Minnesota National Guard] did in Minneapolis was incredible". Trump called Walz an "excellent guy".[155] [156] Trump also publicly claimed credit for deploying the Minnesota National Guard; Walz's office said Trump had no impact on Walz's deployments of the Guard.[154]

Several Republicans criticized Walz's initial response to the widespread protests following Floyd's murder.[157] [158] He later responded to the murder by ordering the Minnesota legislature to reconvene for special sessions on legislation for police reform and accountability.[159] After police reform failed to pass the first special session in June,[160] a second special session was held in July.[161] On July 21, the legislature passed police reform legislation. The compromise law includes a limited ban on police from using chokeholds.[162] It bans "warrior training", which dehumanized people, and includes training for peace officers for dealing with people with autism or in a mental health crisis and deescalation training for situations that could turn volatile. It also created a special independent unit at the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension for investigations of fatal police encounters and a community relations advisory council to consult with the Police Officers Standards and Training Board on policy changes. Walz signed the legislation into law on July 23, 2020.[163]

Abortion

See also: Abortion in Minnesota. In January 2023, Walz signed the Protect Reproductive Options Act, which protects access to reproductive health care including abortion, contraception, and fertility treatments in Minnesota. Abortion is legal at all stages of pregnancy in Minnesota.[164] In April 2023, he signed the Reproductive Freedom Defense Act, which banned state agencies from "enforcing out-of-state subpoenas, arrest warrants, and extradition requests" for people who travel to Minnesota for legal abortion, limited the release of related health records,[165] [166] and cut funding for crisis pregnancy centers,[167] organizations established by anti-abortion groups primarily to persuade pregnant women not to have abortions[168] [169] that often share inaccurate or misleading medical information.[170] [171] [172] [167]

Environment

In early 2023, Walz signed a law requiring Minnesota to obtain all of its electricity from wind, solar, and other carbon-free sources by 2040, phasing out the climate-warming pollution generated by coal and gas-fired power plants, in addition to a variety of other measures to preserve and expand peatlands, forests, pollinator habitats, electric vehicle charger networks, access to home weatherization, embedded emissions cuts in buildings, green banking, and green-collar worker apprenticeships.[173] [174] [175] "As I sign this legislation, communities from one end of our state to the other are looking at months of rebuilding after an extreme weather event exacerbated by climate change", Walz said in June, after catastrophic flooding devastated parts of the state. "This is a measure that will help protect our environment and get the clean energy projects that are going to help fight climate change in motion."

Walz implemented California's stricter tailpipe emissions standards for cars,[176] and set a goal of 20% electric vehicles as a share of all cars in Minnesota by 2030.[177] Some environmentalists have criticized the state government for a lax approach to regulatory capture in the agricultural[178] and iron processing[179] sectors.

Infrastructure

In 2023, Walz signed a bipartisan $2.6 billion infrastructure spending package that funded numerous union construction jobs focused on repairing roads, bridges, and other essential infrastructure.[180] [181] Other projects funded included a new fire hall in Dilworth, Minnesota, a water treatment plant in Mankato, and $78 million for the state veterans' home in Hastings, Minnesota. Soon afterward, Walz signed into law HF2887, which provides $9 billion over the long term to transportation projects, including reforms to climate impact considerations and transit infrastructure permitting.[182] [183] [184]

In May 2024, Walz signed and implemented a bipartisan energy permitting reform bill.[185] [186] Some environmentalists criticized him for fast-tracking the expansion of the Line 3 pipeline and overseeing a vigorous response to the indigenous-led Stop Line 3 protests, marked by allegations of police brutality.[187] [188] [189]

Education

After schools closed in 2020 due to COVID-19, Walz was cautious about reopening them, which aligned closely with the concerns of teachers, who were hesitant to return to in-person learning due to fear of contracting COVID-19. According to Nat Malkus of the American Enterprise Institute, Minnesota schools remained remote longer than the national average during the 2020–21 school year. Malkus ranked Minnesota 19th out of 50 states for the duration of remote learning, adjusted for student enrollment.[190] Between 2017 and 2022, Minnesota fourth-graders' test scores decreased from 10 points above the national average to 4 points above.

In 2023, Walz and the state legislature approved increased spending on K-12 and early education. At the end of the 2023 legislative session, he signed a bill allocating $2.2 billion in additional funding for K-12 education, amounting to about $400 more per student annually than previous levels.[191] The bill also linked state education funding to inflation, addressing a long-standing request by school administrators. With the package, Walz helped make permanent a funding program to supplement child care worker wages by $316 million.[192] He signed a bill that gave all students free school meals regardless of income.[193]

Also in 2023, Walz signed into law the Minnesota Reading to Ensure Academic Development Act (the READ Act), with the goal to have "every Minnesota child reading at or above grade level every year, beginning in kindergarten, and to support multilingual learners and students receiving special education services in achieving their individualized reading goals."[194]

In August 2024, Walz had announced nearly $10 million to support Minnesota's special education workforce with The Education Pipeline grants, awarded by the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE). The program will support and train special education teachers in over 35 districts, charter schools, and cooperatives.[195] Walz said:[196]

Cannabis

Walz advocated for the legalization of recreational cannabis as governor of Minnesota.[197] [198] [199] As a candidate for governor in 2017, he said: "We have an opportunity in Minnesota to replace the current failed policy with one that creates tax revenue, grows jobs, builds opportunities for Minnesotans, protects Minnesota kids, and trusts adults to make personal decisions based on their personal freedoms."[200] In 2022, he proposed the creation of a Cannabis Management Office to develop and implement the "regulatory framework for adult-use cannabis" in Minnesota.[201] [202] [203] On May 30, 2023, he signed into law House File 100 to legalize recreational cannabis in Minnesota, which went into effect on August 1, 2023.[204] [205]

Medical debt

In June 2024, Walz signed the Minnesota Debt Fairness Act.[206] Among other things, the act prevents health care providers from denying medically necessary treatment because of outstanding medical debt and prevents medical debt from affecting credit scores.[207]

Native Americans

In 2019, Walz issued Executive Order 19-24, which requires state agencies to create and implement tribal consultation policies to guide their interaction with tribal nations in Minnesota. In November 2021, he signed the "Government to Government Relationship with Tribal Governments" bill, which codified the order into state law.[208] In 2022, Walz appointed attorney Tadd Johnson to the University of Minnesota Board of Regents, the first Native American appointed to the board since it was established.[209] In August 2023, Walz signed an education bill that included education of Indigenous cultural heritage for all students.[210] In September, he signed the return of parts of Upper Sioux Agency State Park land to the Upper Sioux Community.[211] In December, Walz became the first Minnesota governor to visit all 11 tribal nations in the state.[212] In 2024, he appointed Melanie Benjamin of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe and Johnny Johnson of the Prairie Island Indian Community to the nine-member Minnesota Racing Commission.[213]

2023 legislative session

The 93rd Minnesota Legislature, in session from January 2023 to May 2024, was the first legislature to be fully Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party-controlled since the 88th Minnesota Legislature in 2013–2015. It passed several major reforms to Minnesota law, including requiring paid leave, banning noncompete agreements, cannabis legalization, and environmental issues, tax modifications, codifying abortion rights, universal free school meals, and universal gun background checks.[214] The Star Tribune called the session "one of the most consequential" ever in Minnesota; Walz called it the "most productive session in Minnesota history". While Walz signed almost all legislation passed by the legislature, he vetoed a bill intended to increase pay for rideshare drivers, his first veto as governor, saying that it did not strike the right balance.[215] [216]

National politics

In February 2019, Walz endorsed the candidacy of Amy Klobuchar, Minnesota's senior U.S. senator, in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary.[217] In August 2020, he endorsed the candidacy of Democratic nominee Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris.[218] In October 2023, Walz publicly supported Biden for reelection and dismissed U.S. Representative Dean Phillips's announcement of a run for the Democratic nomination for president, saying, "It's not going to be relevant, and we'll just move on."[219] [220] [221] In July 2024, Walz was among 20 Democratic governors who met with Biden at the White House after the first presidential debate. Walz said the debate was a "bad hit" for Biden's campaign.[222]

2024 vice presidential campaign

See main article: Kamala Harris 2024 presidential campaign and 2024 Democratic Party vice presidential candidate selection.

On July 22, 2024, Walz endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris after incumbent president Joe Biden withdrew from the 2024 presidential race.[223] After a rapid selection process in which the Harris campaign also vetted Kentucky governor Andy Beshear, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, Arizona senator Mark Kelly, Illinois governor J. B. Pritzker, and Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro[224] (with Shapiro, Kelly and Walz the only three to be interviewed by Harris in person[225]), Harris announced on August 6 that she had chosen Walz as her running mate.[226] [227] [228]

The Democratic National Committee certified Walz's candidacy the same day it was announced.[229] His selection was praised by an ideologically diverse group of politicians, including progressive Democratic representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, centrist independent senator Joe Manchin, and moderate Republican former governor of Maryland Larry Hogan.[230] Walz is credited with first publicly describing Donald Trump and his running mate JD Vance as "weird". The term became a popular meme, especially with young people, and has been widely used by Democrats.[231] [232] [233] [234] No more than a day after Walz was named Harris's running mate, his political opponents nicknamed him "Tampon Tim" for his 2023 signing of a Minnesota law that mandates that menstrual pads and tampons be provided free of charge in public schools "to all menstruating students in restrooms regularly used by students in grades 4 to 12". Walz's political supporters responded favorably to the nickname and the law,[235] and the editorial board of the Minnesota Star Tribune published a defense of the initiative.[236]

On August 21, 2024, the third day of the 2024 Democratic National Convention (DNC), Walz officially accepted the Democratic nomination for vice president.[237] He has leaned into his Midwestern values and rural American background as a contrast to his opponents.[238] As of October 2024, Walz had a +2.8 favorability rating.[239] The vice-presidential debate was held on October 1 at the CBS Broadcast Center in New York City.[240]

The 2024 VP debate was considered a polite and policy-focused event in which Walz and JD Vance agreed with each other on many issues.[241] According to a CBS viewer poll after the debate, Walz was only slightly behind Vance by a margin of 1 percent, on the question of who won the debate.[242] However, several political pundits declared Vance the winner, including columnists from The New York Times,[243] and the The Wall Street Journal[244] .

Political positions

Walz has been described as holding both moderate and progressive policy stances.[245]

Abortion

Walz supports a legal right to abortion,[246] and has a 100% rating from Planned Parenthood.[247] The National Right to Life Committee, an anti-abortion organization, gave him a rating of zero. In a March 2024 interview with CNN's Kaitlin Collins, he said, "my neighboring states have tried to criminalize women getting health care", and characterized their policies as "a health care crisis", adding that states need to "trust women to make their own health care decisions" and to "understand that abortion is health care". Also during the interview, he said, "I think old white men need to learn how to talk about this a little more. And I think the biggest thing is: listen to women."[248] [249]

Education

As governor, Walz has announced funding for special needs workforce projects. He signed into law the Minnesota Reading to Ensure Academic Development (READ) Act. The act requires school districts to use evidence-based practices to teach reading.[250] Politico wrote, "Walz set out a 'care economy'-driven agenda that prioritized everyday education concerns".[251]

Walz also signed legislation requiring public schools to provide free breakfasts and lunches to all students, giving financial aid to public schools for households earning less than $80,000 a year, and increasing K-12 education spending by $2.2 billion.

Guns

Walz is a gun owner and supports increased regulations on firearms.[252] While in Congress, Walz was a strong supporter of gun rights and was endorsed by the NRA Political Victory Fund (NRA-PVF) multiple times, receiving an A grade from the organization.[253] [254] Following the Parkland high school shooting in 2018, he denounced the NRA in a Star Tribune opinion piece, and announced that he would donate the equivalent of all of the campaign contributions the NRA-PVF had given him—$18,000—to the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund.[255] As governor, Walz expressed support for gun regulation.[256] In 2023, he signed into law a public safety bill that establishes universal background checks and red-flag laws in Minnesota.[257]

Israel–Hamas war

Walz condemned Hamas's October 7 attacks in Israel.[258] He ordered flags to be lowered to half staff in the following days.[259] After the 2024 Minnesota Democratic presidential primary, in which 19% of voters cast "uncommitted" ballots, Walz took a sympathetic view toward those doing so to protest President Biden's handling of the war in Gaza, calling them "civically engaged".[260]

Of the protests against U.S. funding of the war in Gaza, Walz said: He supports a ceasefire in Gaza.[261]

Labor and workers' rights

In 2023, Walz signed a law banning captive audience meetings and non-compete clauses.[262] [263] The law also mandates paid sick leave for employees and increases safety inspections and ergonomics requirements to reduce the risk of repetitive strain injuries for warehouse, meatpacking, and healthcare facility workers.[262] It also grants workers some of the strongest protections against wage theft.[262] In October 2023, Walz joined the striking United Auto Workers' picket line.[264] He is a former member of two teachers' unions, the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers.[265] Addressing the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees in August 2024, Walz said, "It's not just a saying, it's a fact: when unions are strong, America is strong."[266]

LGBTQ rights

Walz supports LGBTQ rights, including federal anti-discrimination laws on the basis of sexual orientation. In a 2009 speech, he called for an end to the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy.[267] Walz voted in favor of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act[268] and the Sexual Orientation Employment Nondiscrimination Act. In 2007, he received a 90% grade from the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest LGBTQ rights organization. In 2011, Walz announced his support for the Respect for Marriage Act.[269] [270] As governor, Walz has signed a number of bills that support the LGBTQ community. In 2023, he signed bills that banned the practice of conversion therapy and protected gender-affirming care in Minnesota.[271]

Veterans' issues

Having served 24 years in the Army National Guard, as a freshman in Congress Walz was given a rare third committee membership when he was assigned to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.[272]

Walz was the lead House sponsor of the Clay Hunt Suicide Prevention for American Veterans Act,[273] which directs the Veterans Administration to report on veteran mental health care and suicide prevention programs. It also gives the VA permission to provide incentives to psychiatrists who agree to join the VA medical system.[274]

Personal life

Walz and Gwen Whipple met while working as teachers in Nebraska. Their first date was at a movie theater and a Hardee's. They married on June 4, 1994.[275] Tim, who was raised Catholic, became a Lutheran after marrying Gwen.[276] He has called himself a "Minnesota Lutheran"[277] and identified Pilgrim Lutheran Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, a congregation in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, as his family's parish.[278] [279]

Walz's younger brother, Craig, was a high school science teacher in St. Charles, Minnesota. Walz's older brother, Jeff, was a former assistant principal at a middle school in Citrus County, Florida. Walz's older sister, Sandy Dietrich, is a former teacher from Alliance.

Walz was arrested in 1995 on a driving under the influence charge in Dawes County, Nebraska.[280] He pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of reckless driving, and his driver's license was suspended for 90 days. He stopped drinking alcohol after the incident.[281]

The Walzes underwent fertility treatment at Mayo Clinic for seven years before their children were born.[282] [283] Their daughter, Hope, was born in 2001 and their son, Gus, in 2006.[284] Walz and his wife named Hope after their emotion about their pregnancy.[285]

Hope graduated from Mankato West High School in 2018 and Montana State University in 2023.[286] She works as a ski instructor at Big Sky Resort and at a homeless shelter in Bozeman, Montana. Hope has appeared in social media campaign ads for Walz. Historian Kate Andersen Brower considers this role unique for a vice-presidential campaign.[287]

Gus attends Saint Paul Central High School. As a teenager he was diagnosed with non-verbal learning disorder, ADHD, and an anxiety disorder.[288] Hope and Gus appeared onstage at the 2024 DNC, where their tearful cheering from the audience went viral.[289] That videos of Gus became popular for representing neurodivergence was termed the "Gus Walz effect".[290] [291]

The family lived in Mankato, Minnesota, for nearly 20 years before moving to Saint Paul upon Walz's election as governor.[292] Walz and his wife sold their home when they moved into the governor's residence in 2019. According to financial disclosures made while he was in Congress, which a spokesperson for his 2024 campaign confirmed, they have owned no stocks or securities. Their pensions are their only noteworthy asset.[293] As of 2024, Walz has a modest financial profile. He owns no businesses and lists no income besides his salary as governor and his wife's teaching salary. The Walzes reported income of $166,000 on their 2022 tax returns. This places Walz among the least wealthy people ever to run for vice president.[294]

The family has a Labrador retriever named Scout. They got the dog after the 2018 gubernatorial election; Walz had promised he would get Gus a dog if he won. Scout was a rescue from a Minnesota nonprofit, Midwest Animal Rescue and Services.[295] Walz's cat, Afton, went missing in August 2023. He adopted another cat, Honey, in December 2023.[296]

He is a distant cousin of Nebraska state senator Lynne Walz.[297]

Awards and decorations

Agriculture

In 2017, Walz was one of 33 U.S. senators and representatives to receive the Golden Triangle Award from the National Farmers Union for "demonstrated leadership and support at the federal policymaking level for family farmers, ranchers and their rural communities".[298]

Military

Walz's military awards and decorations include:

Army Commendation Medal
Army Achievement MedalOne oak leaf clusterArmy Reserve Components Achievement MedalFive oak leaf clustersNational Defense Service MedalOne service star
Global War on Terrorism Service MedalArmed Forces Reserve Medalwith silver hourglass deviceArmed Forces Reserve Medalwith M device
NCO Professional Development RibbonArmy Service RibbonReserve Components Overseas Training RibbonThree oak leaf clusters
Minnesota Good Conduct Medalwith silver starMinnesota State Active Duty RibbonOne oak leaf clusterMinnesota State Service RibbonOne oak leaf cluster

See also

Further reading

External links

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Notes and References

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  37. News: Slater . Joanna . Brulliard . Karin . August 9, 2024 . In a hostile era, Tim Walz stood up for students' Gay-Straight Alliance . August 9, 2024 . Washington Post . en-US . 0190-8286 . August 9, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240809224240/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/09/walz-gay-alliance-high-school/ . live .
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  88. News: September 14, 2006 . Vote totals in races for which final results were not available Tuesday night: U.S. Congress . . Minneapolis, MN . B7 . . July 31, 2024 . August 6, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240806132543/https://www.newspapers.com/article/star-tribune-results/152354731/ . live .
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  91. News: Gutknecht is out as voters send Walz to Congress . . November 8, 2006 . August 9, 2024 . August 16, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240816064447/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-albert-lea-tribune-gutknecht-is-out/152923205/ . live .
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  94. Web site: Democrat Tim Walz re-elected to Congress in southern Minnesota, defeating GOP's Jim Hagedorn . . . November 4, 2014 . November 8, 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141108200955/http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/281552131.html . November 8, 2014.
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  99. Web site: January 19, 2007 . Committee limit waived, Walz appointed to veterans panel . August 12, 2024 . Rochester Post Bulletin . en . August 7, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240807125256/https://www.postbulletin.com/news/committee-limit-waived-walz-appointed-to-veterans-panel . live .
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  226. News: Ferguson . Dana . August 6, 2024 . Harris taps Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240806161103/https://www.npr.org/2024/08/06/nx-s1-5057604/tim-walz-harris-vice-president . August 6, 2024 . August 6, 2024 . NPR.
  227. News: Korte . Gregory . Wingrove . Josh . August 6, 2024 . Harris Taps Minnesota's Walz in Appeal to Blue-Collar Workers . . August 8, 2024 . August 9, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240809045231/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-06/tim-walz-is-kamala-harris-vice-president-pick?embedded-checkout=true . live .
  228. News: Samuels . Ben . August 6, 2024 . Kamala Harris Taps Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as Running Mate in 2024 Election . . August 8, 2024 . August 7, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240807011036/https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2024-08-06/ty-article/.premium/reports-kamala-harris-taps-minnesota-governor-tim-walz-as-running-mate-in-2024-election/00000191-2794-d642-a9d5-b7d448330000 . live .
  229. Web site: Nazzaro . Miranda . August 6, 2024 . Harris, Walz officially certified as Democratic nominees for president, vice president . August 6, 2024 . The Hill . en . August 7, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240807012723/https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4814861-harris-walz-democratic-nomination/ . live .
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  231. News: Amiri. Farnoush. August 6, 2024. How Tim Walz became beloved by young voters with a message that the GOP is 'weird'. Washington, D.C.. Associated Press. August 7, 2024. August 6, 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240806235210/https://apnews.com/article/kamala-walz-vp-weird-trump-gen-z-f9d718890c3ca907f42dba5934075382. live.
  232. News: 'JD Vance is fu****': Tim Walz memes take over Internet as Harris announces VP pick. August 7, 2024. The Times of India. August 6, 2024. August 7, 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240807171212/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/jd-vance-is-fu-tim-walz-memes-take-over-internet-as-harris-announces-vp-pick/articleshow/112324991.cms. live.
  233. News: Racker . Mary Ann . Akers . Mini . August 6, 2024 . Meet Tim Walz, Harris' VP Pick Who First Called Trump 'Weird' . August 6, 2024 . The Daily Beast . en . August 7, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240807172047/https://www.thedailybeast.com/meet-tim-walz-harris-vp-pick-who-first-called-trump-weird . live .
  234. News: 'These are weird people on the other side,' Walz said in one MSNBC appearance. 'My God, they went after cat people — good luck with that. Turn on the internet and see what cat people do when you go after 'em. It would be funny if it wasn't so sad,' he said in another . Kamala Harris chooses Tim Walz as running mate in US presidential election . . Steff . Chávez . James . Fontanella-Khan . August 6, 2024 . August 7, 2024 . August 7, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240807025144/https://www.ft.com/content/a87b5e6d-89ab-44be-839b-f373e62fa8e9 . live .
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  236. News: . August 9, 2024 . August 8, 2024 . A reality check on the 'Tampon Tim' meme . August 8, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240808215319/https://www.startribune.com/a-reality-check-on-the-tampon-tim-meme/600965646 . live .
  237. Web site: Chowdhury . Aditi Sangal, Elise Hammond, Antoinette Radford, Tori B. Powell, Maureen . August 21, 2024 . Live updates: Tim Walz, Bill Clinton and Nancy Pelosi address DNC CNN Politics . September 3, 2024 . CNN . en . September 3, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240903033700/https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/dnc-democratic-national-convention-08-21-24/index.html . live .
  238. News: Rascoe . Ayesha . August 11, 2024 . Vance and Walz both claim the Midwest. What does it mean to be Midwestern? . September 29, 2024 . . September 25, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240925153650/https://www.npr.org/2024/08/11/nx-s1-5067014/vance-and-walz-both-claim-the-midwest-what-does-it-mean-to-be-midwestern . live .
  239. Web site: Best . Ryan . Bycoffe . Aaron . King . Ritchie . Mehta . Dhrumil . Wiederkehr . Anna . October 2, 2024 . Tim Walz : Favorability Polls . October 2, 2024 . FiveThirtyEight . en . October 2, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20241002142353/https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/favorability/tim-walz/ . live .
  240. Web site: Linton . Caroline . October 1, 2024 . Where is the VP debate being held? See behind the scenes at the CBS Broadcast Center in NYC . October 29, 2024 . CBS News . en-US.
  241. Web site: October 2, 2024 . J.D. Vance Won the Debate. But Tim Walz Got the Clip . Slate . October 6, 2024 . en.
  242. Web site: Snap polls after VP debate reveal what voters think of Vance and Walz's performances . Independent . October 2, 2024. November 7, 2024.
  243. News: Douthat . Ross . Vance's Dominant Debate Performance Shows Why He's Trump's Running Mate . The New York Times . October 2, 2024 . October 2, 2024 . October 2, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20241002022305/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/25/opinion/vance-winning-debate.html . live .
  244. News: Who Won the Vice-Presidential Debate, Tim Walz or JD Vance? . Opinion Staff . WSJ . October 2, 2024 . The Wall Street Journal.
  245. Web site: Beauchamp . Zack . August 6, 2024 . The left loves Tim Walz. Can he unite the Democrats? . August 7, 2024 . . en-US . August 7, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240807044335/https://www.vox.com/politics/365416/tim-walz-kamala-harris-vp-vice-president-democrats-left . live .
  246. Web site: Tim Walz's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test) . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20101030180316/https://www.votesmart.org/npat.php?can_id=65443 . October 30, 2010 . July 12, 2010 . Vote Smart.
  247. News: Representative Timothy 'Tim' J. Walz's Special Interest Group Ratings . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20181107182918/http://votesmart.org/candidate/evaluations/65443/tim-walz . November 7, 2018 . March 13, 2019 . Vote Smart.
  248. Web site: Campuzano . Eder . March 15, 2024 . Gov. Tim Walz says 'old white men need to learn' how to talk about abortion, reproductive health . August 8, 2024 . . en . August 8, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240808125543/https://www.startribune.com/tim-walz-cnn-abortion-minnesota/600351460 . live .
  249. Web site: March 14, 2024 . The Source with Kaitlan Collins, transcript . August 8, 2024 . . April 17, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240417023844/https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/skc/date/2024-03-14/segment/01 . live .
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  252. News: Londoño . Ernesto . August 1, 2024 . Once Backed by the N.R.A., Tim Walz Now Champions Tighter Gun Controls . August 17, 2024 . The New York Times . en-US . 0362-4331 . August 17, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240817024939/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/01/us/nra-tim-walz-guns.html . live .
  253. Web site: Walz picks up NRA endorsement over Quist. Brett . Neely . MPR News . . October 2, 2012 . January 6, 2022. January 6, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220106032304/https://www.mprnews.org/amp/story/2012/10/02/walz-picks-up-nra-endorsement-over-quist. live.
  254. Web site: August 14, 2024 . From NRA ally to adversary: Gov. Tim Walz track record on guns highlights policy evolution . Dana . Ferguson . August 17, 2024 . MPR News . en . August 17, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240817024939/https://www.mprnews.org/story/2024/08/14/walz-nra-guns-policy-track-record-minnesota . live .
  255. Web site: Walz . Tim . Tim Walz: Please understand my full record on guns . June 5, 2023 . Star Tribune . February 24, 2018 . June 5, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230605170102/https://www.startribune.com/tim-walz-please-understand-my-full-record-on-guns/475013423/ . live .
  256. Web site: April 19, 2023 . 'Keep choosing the right fights': Gov. Walz delivers annual State of the State Address . July 19, 2023 . kare11.com . en-US . August 7, 2024 . https://archive.today/20240807145759/https://www.kare11.com/article/news/politics/keep-choosing-the-right-fights-governor-tim-walz-delivers-annual-state-of-the-state-address/89-e2214047-610a-432b-aeff-ab2f57dc674e . Samantha . Fischer . live .
  257. Web site: May 19, 2023 . Jeremiah . Jacobsen . Gov. Walz signs public safety bill, including new gun control measures . June 5, 2023 . kare11.com . en-US . August 7, 2024 . https://archive.today/20240807145839/https://www.kare11.com/article/news/politics/gov-walz-signs-gun-control-public-safety/89-2d0dff23-d6d5-46f0-aebf-d5b9970007f8 . live .
  258. News: Minnesota's Jews celebrate as their 'mensch' Gov. Tim Walz enters the national spotlight . Jackie . Hajdenberg . JTA . . August 7, 2024 . August 11, 2024 . August 11, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240811133844/https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-813652 . live .
  259. News: October 11, 2023 . Minnesota governor orders flags at half-staff to honor victims of Hamas' attack on Israel . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240806145350/https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/minnesota-governor-orders-flags-at-half-staff-to-honor-victim-of-hamas-attack-on-israel/ . August 6, 2024 . August 6, 2024 . .
  260. News: Wurzer . Cathy . Stockton . Gracie . March 7, 2024 . Gov. Walz says Minnesota's 45,000 uncommitted voters are 'civically engaged' . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240806150940/https://www.mprnews.org/episode/2024/03/07/gov-walz-says-minnesotas-45000-uncommitted-voters-are-civically-engaged . August 6, 2024 . August 6, 2024 . MPR News . . en.
  261. Web site: Where Kamala Harris's top potential VP picks stand on Israel and Gaza . Bryan . Metzger . July 29, 2024 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240803004259/https://www.businessinsider.com/kamala-harris-vice-president-candidates-positions-israel-gaza-2024-7 . August 3, 2024 . August 4, 2024 . Business Insider.
  262. Web site: Nesterak . Max . May 17, 2023 . Minnesota lawmakers approve 9 major worker-friendly changes . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230605014729/https://minnesotareformer.com/2023/05/17/labor-victory-minnesota-lawmakers-approve-9-major-worker-friendly-changes/ . June 5, 2023 . August 6, 2024 . . en-US.
  263. Oamek . Paige . August 6, 2024 . Kamala's V.P. Pick Sparks Major Endorsements That Should Scare Trump . August 7, 2024 . The New Republic . 0028-6583 . August 16, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240816064955/https://newrepublic.com/post/184625/labor-unions-celebrate-kamala-harris-vp-pick-tim-walz . live .
  264. News: Greenhouse . Steven . August 6, 2024 . Why Harris' VP Choice Is Good News for Workers . August 7, 2024 . Slate . en-US . 1091-2339 . August 7, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240807171111/https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/08/tim-walz-unions-labor-record-kamala-harris-vp-pick.html . live .
  265. Web site: Hsu . Andrea . August 6, 2024 . 4 reasons why labor unions love Tim Walz . August 7, 2024 . NPR . August 7, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240807002050/https://www.npr.org/2024/08/06/nx-s1-5065626/labor-unions-tim-walz-minnesota-running-mate-vp . live .
  266. Web site: Blood . Michael R. . August 13, 2024 . Walz launches 5-state fundraising blitz in LA, warns Trump will wage 'war' on working people . August 13, 2024 . AP News . en . August 23, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240823172707/https://apnews.com/article/walz-unions-support-fundraiser-harris-democrats-1f809455ba6643ec7f455ca75c6acd30 . live .
  267. Web site: Migdon . Brooke . August 3, 2024 . Tim Walz helped make Minnesota an LGBTQ 'refuge.' Could he do the same for America? . The Hill.
  268. Web site: August 6, 2024 . 7 Times Vice President Candidate Tim Walz Has Stood Up for the Queer Community . September 17, 2024 . Pride Source . en . September 17, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240917003135/https://pridesource.com/article/7-times-vice-president-candidate-tim-walz-has-stood-up-for-the-queer-community . live .
  269. Web site: Ameigh. Sarah. North Carolina's Anti-LGBT Measure: A Reactionary's Response to Progress. September 2011 . American Humanist. September 25, 2011. dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110930080540/http://www.americanhumanist.org/HNN/details/2011-09-north-carolinas-anti-lgbt-measure-a-reactionarys-res. September 30, 2011.
  270. Web site: How pro-LGBTQ+ is Tim Walz, Kamala Harris' vice president? . Ryan . Adamczeski . September 17, 2024 . . August 7, 2024 . en.
  271. Web site: Villarreal . Daniel . April 27, 2023 . Minnesota governor signs conversion therapy ban & law protecting trans healthcare rights . August 6, 2024 . LGBTQ Nation . en . August 5, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240805222346/https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/04/minnesota-governor-signs-conversion-therapy-ban-law-protecting-trans-healthcare-rights/ . live .
  272. News: Wentling . Nikki . Kamala Harris taps Tim Walz, National Guard veteran, as running mate . August 6, 2024 . Military Times . August 6, 2024 . August 6, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240806231251/https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2024/08/06/kamala-harris-taps-tim-walz-national-guard-veteran-as-running-mate/ . live .
  273. Web site: Sherry . Allison . February 3, 2015 . Rep. Tim Walz measure requiring VA to build up suicide prevention programs heads to Obama's desk . August 9, 2024 . . en . August 9, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240809214636/https://www.startribune.com/rep-tim-walz-measure-requiring-va-to-build-up-suicide-prevention-programs-heads-to-obama-s-desk/290677361 . live .
  274. News: Henry . Devin . Obama signs Walz's veterans suicide prevention bill . August 6, 2024 . MinnPost . February 12, 2015 . August 6, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240806230429/https://www.minnpost.com/dc-dispatches/2015/02/obama-signs-walzs-veterans-suicide-prevention-bill/ . live .
  275. Web site: Liang . Annabelle . August 7, 2024 . Tim Walz: Chinese internet discovers that Harris's VP pick taught in China . August 7, 2024 . . en-GB . August 7, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240807085517/https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74j887e710o . live .
  276. News: Jenkins . Jack . August 6, 2024 . Five faith facts about Harris pick Tim Walz, a 'Minnesota Lutheran' dad . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240806161610/https://www.ncronline.org/news/five-faith-facts-about-harris-pick-tim-walz-minnesota-lutheran-dad . August 6, 2024 . August 9, 2024 . . Religion News Service.
  277. News: Levien . Simon J. . Astor . Maggie . August 6, 2024 . 19 Facts About Tim Walz, Harris's Pick for Vice President . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240807030815/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/06/us/politics/tim-walz-harris-vp-facts.html . August 7, 2024 . August 12, 2024 . . en-US . 0362-4331.
  278. Web site: Demaree . Natalie . August 9, 2024 . Would Tim Walz be the first Lutheran VP? It just depends on how you count it. . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240816065533/https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article290912779.html . August 16, 2024 . August 13, 2024 . Miami Herald.
  279. Web site: Dallas . Kelsey . August 6, 2024 . What Kamala Harris' pick for vice president has said about faith . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240810070553/https://www.deseret.com/faith/2024/08/06/tim-walz-religion/ . August 10, 2024 . August 12, 2024 . . en.
  280. News: Baio . Ariana . August 7, 2024 . The truth behind Tim Walz's 1995 DUI arrest and how it changed his life . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240807175129/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/tim-walz-democrat-vice-president-dui-b2592248.html . August 7, 2024 . August 8, 2024 . The Independent.
  281. News: Bennett . Brian . August 6, 2024 . What to Know About Tim Walz' 1995 Drunk Driving Charge . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240806205139/https://time.com/7008431/tim-walz-dui-drunk-driving/ . August 6, 2024 . August 6, 2024 . Time.
  282. News: Treisman . Rachel . August 8, 2024 . What to know about Minnesota first lady Gwen Walz . August 8, 2024 . . August 23, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240823173647/https://www.npr.org/2024/08/08/nx-s1-5067814/gwen-walz-minnesota-first-lady . live .
  283. News: Campuzano . Eder . August 6, 2024 . Who is Tim Walz? Minnesota's governor and Kamala Harris' running mate, explained . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240806201756/https://www.startribune.com/vp-candidate-tim-walz-background-accomplishments/600853726 . August 6, 2024 . August 6, 2024 . . en.
  284. Web site: October 14, 2024 . Gwen Walz Shares Her Full Fertility Journey Exclusively With Women's Health—In Her Own Words . October 14, 2024 . Women's Health . en-US.
  285. News: Gibson . Kelsie . August 22, 2024 . Tim Walz's 2 Kids: All About His Daughter Hope and Son Gus . September 15, 2024 . . September 7, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240907170346/https://people.com/all-about-tim-walz-kids-8690258 . live .
  286. News: Van Berkel . Jesse . August 21, 2024 . Meet the Walzes: Wife Gwen, two kids round out Minnesota's first family . September 15, 2024 . . September 15, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240915193929/https://www.startribune.com/meet-the-walzes-wife-gwen-two-kids-round-out-minnesotas-first-family/600860535 . live .
  287. News: Moore . Elena . August 21, 2024 . Hope Walz gets a shoutout in Gov. Tim Walz' speech on Wednesday at the DNC . September 15, 2024 . NPR.
  288. News: Chamlee . Virginia . August 22, 2024 . Tim Walz and His Wife, Gwen, Open Up About Son's Non-Verbal Learning Disorder: 'His Secret Power' (Exclusive) . September 15, 2024 . . September 15, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240915183856/https://people.com/gus-walz-learning-disorder-secret-power-exclusive-8691793 . live .
  289. News: 4 things to know about Tim Walz's Midwestern family in the DNC spotlight. The Washington Post. Timsit. Anabelle. August 22, 2024. August 24, 2024.
  290. News: Rahman . Abid . August 22, 2024 . 'That's My Dad!': Tim Walz's Children Steal America's Heart Amid Tears at the DNC . September 15, 2024 . The Hollywood Reporter.
  291. News: Littlefield . Susan-Elizabeth . September 10, 2024 . 'Gus Walz effect' felt at Minnesota Autism Center, as neurodivergence enters public consciousness . September 15, 2024 . CBS News.
  292. News: Wang . Amy B . Rodriguez . Sabrina . August 6, 2024 . Tim Walz's journey from high school football coach to VP candidate . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240806140609/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/06/who-is-tim-walz/ . August 6, 2024 . August 6, 2024 . Washington Post.
  293. News: . August 7, 2024 . August 7, 2024 . Dan . Primack . Gov. Tim Walz doesn't own a single stock . August 16, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240816065533/https://www.axios.com/2024/08/07/tim-walz-vp-pick-investment-portfolio . live .
  294. News: O'Connell . Jonathan . Morse . Clara Ence . How Tim Walz's personal finances compare to J.D. Vance, other politicians . Washington Post . August 9, 2024 . August 9, 2024 . August 13, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240813212629/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/08/tim-walz-personal-finances-worth-house/ . live .
  295. News: Taylor . Elise . August 14, 2024 . Scout Walz Is Man's (And Maybe America's) Best Friend . September 15, 2024 . Vogue.
  296. News: Moser . Riley . December 20, 2023 . Gov. Tim Walz adopts rescue cat named Honey . September 15, 2024 . . September 15, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240915193929/https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/gov-tim-walz-adopts-rescue-cat-named-honey/ . live .
  297. News: MacKinnon . Sean . 'Nice to have Nebraska really represented': Vice President Kamala Harris selects Nebraska native as running mate . 21 September 2024 . KETV . 7 August 2024 . en.
  298. Web site: September 12, 2017 . NFU Honors 33 Congressional Champions of Agriculture with Golden Triangle Award - National Farmers Union . October 13, 2024 . en-US . July 17, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240717105848/https://nfu.org/2017/09/12/nfu-honors-33-congressional-champions-of-agriculture-with-golden-triangle-award/ . live .

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