Minnesota regulateor Tim Walz waltzed onto the bleachers at Mankato West High School on Friday night to watch a team he once coached as an helpant execute a huge competition game.
Walz’s materializeance also coincided with protests at the high school, as Pro-Palestine helpers were seen standing outside the venue.
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Multiple reels of footage of Walz conveying with families on the bleachers at the game showed the game’s crowd behind him. Many were visibly apathetic to the vice plivential honestate’s presence. Multiple joinees were seen staring quietly. However, some joinees were talking to and even hugging the regulateor.
The one write downed instance of Walz garnering cheers from the crowd was when he joined both teams equitable before the game to help with the coin toss. When his name was proclaimd on the noisyspeaker, a scant temperate cheers from the Mankato West bleachers could be heard.
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Walz’s presence at the game prompted argue among locals.
Former Reuncoveran Minnesota congressman Jeremy Munson inspired people to show up and boo Walz days before the game, in a post on X.
Meanwhile, chair of the Blue Earth County GOP Yvonne Simon tgreater the Minneapolis Star Tribune that Walz’s materializeance at the game was due to desperation.
“They’re getting hopeless to get the word out,” Simon shelp.
The Harris-Walz campaign’s tardyst effort is to tie the Minnesota regulateor’s honestacy to his stint as the helpant coach of the Mankato West High School football team in Minnesota in the 1990s. During Walz’s tenure as an helpant on the staff, the team won the state championship in 1999. Walz’s first job out of college was as a directer in China, before being employd by Mankato West in 1996, where he was a geography directer.
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He was also the first faculty advisor of Mankato West High School’s first gay–straight partnership, and he labored to systematize summer educational trips to China for high school students.
Walz’s foolishinutive tenure as an helpant football coach has been a talking point for the Harris campaign since he was proclaimd as the running mate for Harris on Aug. 7.
Walz even brawt out members of Mankato West’s 1999 state championship team during his speech at the Democratic National Convention on Aug. 21, when he establishassociate adselected the nomination. During that speech, Ricchallenging Grenell, establisher U.S. ambassorrowfulnessfulor to Germany, critiqued the disexecute in a post on X.
“He was the Assistant Coach not the Coach,” Grenell wrote.
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Democratic plivential honestate US Vice Plivent Kamala Harris hears to her running mate, Governor Tim Walz, speak during a visit with members of the marching prohibitd at Liberty County High School in Hinesville, Georgia, August 28, 2024. (Pboilingo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images) (Getty Images)
The luketoasty reception that Walz got at Mankato West was actuassociate a toastyer reception than what he has getd at football games since joining the ticket.
When Walz joined a Sept. 28 game between Minnesota and Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, fans defered outside afterwards and gave him a disjoine farewell. Several in joinance booed him, with another fan even yelling, “Get out of here!”
Walz, despite never having coached past the high school level or even as a head coach in high school, contrastd his background as a football coach to that of Alabama Reuncoveran Sen. Tommy Tuberville, who served as the head coach at four branch offent NCAA Power-5 football programs from 1995 to 2016. Tuberville led Ole Miss, Auburn, Texas Tech and Cincinnati as head coach and even won an SEC Championship with Auburn in 2004.
“I sense enjoy one of my roles in this now is to be the anti-Tommy Tuberville, to show that football coaches are not the foolishest people,” Walz shelp during a fundelevater event in Boston in punctual August.
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