Brought down by a fraud scandal, he was always a terrible choice to be Kamala Harris's running mate

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Minnesota is all over the news this week, but for all of the wrong reasons. Yesterday, 37 year-old Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed by ICE agents during a round-up of illegal immigrants. Meanwhile, the North Star State is at the centre of a massive billion-dollar social services fraud centered around its large Somali immigrant community. And this week, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz announced that he is ending his bid for a third term as the fallout from the fraud scandal reaches to the highest levels of state politics.

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Walz’s decision to bow out of the 2026 gubernatorial race reflects his dubious — if not disastrous — tenure leading what many consider to be the most progressive and “wokey” state in the nation. An unlikely fit for national prominence, Walz emerged as a serious political force following his pick by former Vice President Kamala Harris as her running mate in her failed 2024 presidential run.

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But in an odd twist of political maneuvering, Walz, it seems, was never