Kamala Harris Selects Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz As Running Mate: Reports

Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, has selected Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, CNN and The Associated Press reported Tuesday.

There was no immediate confirmation from the Harris campaign or Walz on the pick.

Given Minnesota’s status as a reliably, albeit narrowly, Democratic state, the selection of Walz does not immediately put a battleground state in play for Democrats.

But the plainspoken, second-term state chief executive has emerged recently as a prominent attack dog against former President Donald Trump and Sen. JD Vance (Ohio), Trump’s running mate.

Lighting into the Republican Party’s efforts to restrict abortion rights and certain books in public libraries, Walz has helped blow up Democrats’ “weird” moniker for the GOP. “These are weird people on the other side,” <a href=«https://x.com/Tim_Walz/status/1815951829479330211?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1815951829479330211%7Ctwgr%5Eb65418e375b4cf4472b2c4d5470b9f49c8c6c0ee%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdailycaller.com%2F2024%2F07%2F28%2Fcnn-jake-tapper-governor-tim-waltz-donald-trump-weird-kamala-harris%2F%3F%3Dspfn» role=«link» class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name=«he said on MSNBC» data-vars-item-type=«text» data-vars-unit-name=«66a91eb1e4b0e33a3bb842c7» data-vars-unit-type=«buzz_body» data-vars-target-content-id=«https://x.com/Tim_Walz/status/1815951829479330211?ref_src=» https: data-vars-target-content-type=«url» data-vars-type=«web_external_link» data-vars-subunit-name=«article_body» data-vars-subunit-type=«component» data-vars-position-in-subunit=«3»> he said on MSNBC

Walz, a former public school teacher and veteran of the U.S. Army