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Governor of Minnesota, Tim Waltzcombines several qualities that are hard to find in one politician: he is a former military man, a simple man from the key Midwest, a teacher, a father who went viral, and the preferred politician of the more progressive factions of the Democratic Party.

At 60 years old, Walz will be the Democratic Party’s candidate for president of the United States, Kamala Harris.and will go from the lowly status of a re-elected governor of a state far removed from high-pressure politics to the center of one of the most intense campaigns in decades.

Walz was born in rural Nebraska and enlisted in the National Guard. Private, to be able to pay for higher educationthe path to better education used by the middle class in the United States.

The governor was school teacher where he met his wife Gwen Whipple, with whom he later moved to Minnesota to continue teaching at the high school. geography teacher and football coachleading his team to victory in the 1999 state championship.

Over the years of working as a teacher Waltz taught in China and, along with his wife, he organized study tours for teenagers to an Asian country, a cultural exchange experience that could prove useful if he eventually makes it to the White House.

IN In 2006, he decided to run for Congress and managed to extend the trust of his voters for 12 years.in which he was a member of the House Agriculture and Veterans Affairs Committees.

It would seem that Waltz was destined to win, and in In 2018, he was elected Governor of Minnesota.a state that voted Democratic in the last general election but whose rural population is largely Republican and conservative. He was up for reelection to another four-year term in 2022.

Progressive candidate

When Bernie Sanders publicly endorses Walz Two days before Harris’ running mate was announced, the 2016 senator and standard-bearer of the American left telegraphed to the Democratic apparatus that he was privately It was a tough battle for weeks to convince the candidate.

He The Minnesota governor was his best asset.According to Sanders, because he was only those who “can raise their voice and stand up to the interests of large corporations.”