Episode 2653
Tim Walz
Wed, 2024-Aug-07 01:27 UTC
Length - 2:44
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With 3,830,600 views on Tuesday, 6 August 2024 our article of the day is Tim Walz.
Timothy James Walz ( WAWLZ; born April 6, 1964) is an American politician, former schoolteacher, and retired U. S. Army non-commissioned officer who has served as the 41st governor of Minnesota since 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, he is its presumptive nominee for vice president in the 2024 United States presidential election. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 2007 to 2019, representing Minnesota's 1st congressional district.
Walz was born in West Point, Nebraska. He joined the Army National Guard and worked a blue-collar manufacturing job after high school. He later graduated with a teaching degree from Chadron State College in Nebraska before moving to Minnesota in 1996. Before running for Congress, he was a social studies teacher and football coach in the Mankato school district. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives for Minnesota's 1st congressional district in 2006, defeating six-term Republican incumbent Gil Gutknecht. He was reelected five times, resigning in 2019 after being elected governor. Walz represented a large, mostly rural section of southern Minnesota situated along the border with Iowa.
Walz was elected governor of Minnesota in November 2018, defeating the Republican nominee, Hennepin County commissioner Jeff Johnson. He was reelected in 2022, defeating Republican nominee Scott Jensen. During his second term, Walz pushed for and signed a wide range of legislation that included tax modifications, free school meals, bolstering state infrastructure, gun background checks, codifying abortion rights and free college tuition for low-income families.
On August 6, 2024, Vice President Kamala Harris announced her selection of Walz as her running mate in the 2024 U. S. presidential election.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 01:27 UTC on Wednesday, 7 August 2024.
For the full current version of the article, see Tim Walz on Wikipedia.
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