The Minnesota governor is a 60-year-old US Army National Guard veteran and former teacher.
WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris selected Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to be her running mate on Aug 6, choosing a progressive policy champion and a plain speaker from America's heartland to help win over rural, white voters, said people familiar with the matter.
Mr Walz has long advocated for women's reproductive rights but also displayed a conservative bent while representing a rural district in the US House, defending agricultural interests and backing gun rights. The Harris campaign hopes Mr Walz's extensive National Guard career, coupled with a successful run as a high school football coach, and his Dad joke videos will attract such voters who are not yet dedicated to a second Trump term in the White House.becoming its candidateMr Walz was a relative unknown nationally until the Harris"veepstakes" heated up, but his profile has since surged.
That approach has struck a chord with the young voters Ms Harris needs to reengage. Mr David Hogg, the co-founder of the gun safety group March for Our Lives, described him as a"great communicator.
In the 2022 governor's race, Mr Walz won with 52.27 per cent to his Republican opponent's 44.61 per cent, although swaths of rural Minnesota voted for the opponent. He subsequently registered a failing grade with the NRA after supporting gun-control measures during his first campaign for governor.Mr Walz's shift from a centrist representing a single rural district in Congress to a more progressive politician as governor may have been in response to the demands of voters in major cities like Minneapolis-St Paul. But it leaves him open to Republican attacks, Prof Dawkins said in a telephone interview.
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