Farm-state governor Walz is Harris’s choice for vice president
Second-term Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, a former schoolteacher who signed a law in 2023 providing school meals free of charge to all students, is a biofuels advocate who also supports a shift to carbon-free electricity in the state. Walz, 60, represented a rural Minnesota district in the U.S. House for six terms before running for governor in 2018.