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Politician next door may bring common sense to DC

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09.08.2024

And after days of waiting, the outsider won. The dark horse. The long shot. The improbable. The outside chance.

But Tim Walz, the politician next door and married father of two, might be just the ordinary bloke we need to disrupt the polarising political speak that now wraps itself around every single issue.

Unlike the usual Democratic VP pick, the 60-year-old didn’t go to law school. And until a few days ago, he was hardly known outside his home state of Minnesota.

Even yesterday, after Kamala Harris chose him as her running mate, almost three-quarters of Americans admitted never having heard of him, or not being sure what they thought of him.

And that, in a world where hostile political barbs and magnified rhetoric seem to win, might be something we all find refreshing.

A straight shooter. A plain speaker.

Imagine a politician who sees value in being a tad pedestrian; who thinks and acts and talks like the rest of us.

On that front, Timothy James Walz is dangerously normal.

He studied teaching, like his father, and taught geography. He married Gwen Whipple, a fellow teacher, and had two children: A son called Gus and a daughter named Hope, reflecting their seven-year IVF journey to be parents.

On that........

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