Joshua Green“In a presidential campaign dominated by focus on who’s the ‘weird’,” Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, who was just announced as Democratic nominee Kamala Harris’ running mate, seems so, so normal it’s almost suspicious.”
“That was my impression when we first met in 2005, when I wrote a profile of him during his first run for Congress. Even then, the nation’s politics were so warped that ‘normal’ seemed an exotic quality, but Waltz exuded it…”
“My profile and much of the coverage that followed focused on Waltz’s military record, but as I toured Minnesota’s 1st Congressional District, what stood out to me about his skills as a candidate was that he possessed a kind of holy trinity of normalcy. As a coach, teacher and veteran, he was able to talk to anyone about anything (even reporters!) and relate to them not as a greedy, needy politician looking for votes, but rather as the opposite: the affable guy you might meet at a barbecue who happens to be running for the U.S. House of Representatives.”
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