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One Word Has Elevated Minnesota’s Governor to the Democrats’ V.P. Wish List [1]

['Ernesto Londoño']

Date: 2024-07-29

No one would accuse Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota of being flashy. He taught social studies for 20 years before trying politics. During six terms in Congress, he was regarded more as a workhorse than a showboat.

Neither has Mr. Walz really been a household name outside of Minnesota — at least, not until this past week, when he made a flurry of cable news appearances pointedly pressing Kamala Harris’s case and dismissing Donald J. Trump’s agenda as divisive and extreme. And weird.

“These guys are just weird,” Mr. Walz said on Saturday of the Republican ticket. He was talking to a crowd of canvassers for the Harris campaign in St. Paul, but the “weird” line of attack, which he has been using for months, went viral. (Ms. Harris herself used the words “just plain weird” over the weekend to describe the ways in which Republicans have chosen to criticize her.)

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