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Democrats Have Needed Someone Like Tim Walz for Decades

The Minnesota governor fills a decades-long geographic messaging gap for Democrats.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/07/opinion/tim-walz-prairie-populist.html?smid=em-share

Sarah Smarsh is a journalist and the author of the forthcoming book “Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class” and “Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth.”