POV: Tim Walz becoming Harris’s VP pick is a ‘Minnesota Nice’ surprise for locals

Having lived in Minneapolis, I’ve seen how Tim Walz’s policies have been a boon for the state. It’d be exciting for him to have a say in the direction of the country.

In classically humble Midwestern fashion, few Minnesotans actually seemed to believe their governor Tim Walz would scooch right by Pennsylvania’s Josh Shapiro to become Kamala Harris’s VP pick. Many were just happy for him to be in the mix at all before waking up on Tuesday morning to discover that—ope!—he’d won the veepstakes.