5 facts to know about Kamala Harris' VP pick Tim Walz

By Ryan Foley, Christian Post Reporter Wednesday, August 07, 2024

Democratic vice presidential candidate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speaks during a campaign rally with Democratic presidential candidate, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, at Girard College on August 6, 2024, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Harris ended weeks of speculation about who her running mate would be, selecting the 60-year-old midwestern progressive governor over other candidates. | Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democrat nominee for president in the 2024 presidential election, announced Minnesota’s Democrat Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate on Tuesday.

Walz has a career in politics spanning nearly 20 years that began with his election to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2006. He defeated Republican incumbent Gil Gutknecht by a margin of 52.74% to 47.26%, winning Minnesota’s First Congressional District.

Walz served in the House from 2007-2019. After barely winning reelection in 2016 as former President Donald Trump carried his district by nearly 15 percentage points in the concurrent presidential election, Walz retired ahead of the 2018 gubernatorial election to seek the Democrat nomination for governor.

He ultimately won his party’s nomination and won the general election by defeating Republican Jeff Johnson by a margin of 11.4 percentage points. He won reelection by a slightly smaller margin of 7.7 percentage points in 2022.

Throughout his political career, Walz’s policy positions have been on the record for all to see, specifically his voting pattern in Congress and the laws he has approved as governor. Here are five things to know about Tim Walz.