Ask Democratic partisans what they like about Tim Walz as Kamala Harris’s running mate, and many will argue that, in spite of being a hard-shell progressive ideologue, Walz is a guy who knows how to win Middle America. He did, after all, spend twelve years representing Minnesota’s first congressional district, a red-leaning district along the Iowa border that voted twice for George W. Bush and twice for Donald Trump. He’s from Nebraska. He used to coach football and work in a factory. He was enlisted in the Army National Guard. He looks and sounds like a regular Red America guy.
It’s a mirage. Whatever political niche Walz once inhabited, his brand by now to voters who know him is that of an arch-progressive. That’s how his most recent election in Minnesota played out.
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