08/06/2024

Tim Walz’s Journey from High School Football Coach to VP Candidate

He now faces the urgent task of introducing himself to the country

Some 20 years ago, a lawyer named Kamala Harris won her first political race, becoming the first Black and South Asian woman elected district attorney of San Francisco in 2003 after campaigning on criminal justice policy changes, including opposition to the death penalty.

Halfway across the country, in Mankato, Minn., a high school teacher named Tim Walz had a lower-profile but no less fraught daily mandate: overseeing his social studies classes, coaching the football team and occasionally wrangling the lunchroom.

The unlikely convergence of Harris' and Walz&'s paths would take place more than two decades later, with the news Tuesday that Harris had selected Walz, now the governor of Minnesota, to be her running mate.

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