Kamala Harris picked Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her vice presidential running mate for the 2024 election. Walz, 60, is a military veteran, former public school teacher, and congressman who has served as Minnesota's governor for six years. As a congressman, Walz represented a Republican-leaning district in Minnesota for six terms and styled himself as a moderate who could connect with rural voters. Minnesota became the first state to codify abortion rights after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
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00:02Kamala Harris picked Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her vice presidential running mate
00:06for the 2024 election.
00:08Walz, 60, is a military veteran, former public school teacher, and congressman who has served
00:13as Minnesota's governor for the past six years.
00:16As a congressman, Walz represented a Republican-leaning district in Minnesota for six terms and styled
00:22himself as a moderate who could connect with rural voters.
00:25Minnesota became the first state to codify abortion rights after the U.S. Supreme Court
00:29overturned Roe v. Wade.
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