Vice President Kamala Harris selected Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate in the vain hope that he would deliver key Midwestern states.
But amid the wreckage of her failed campaign, new numbers show Walz could not even get the county where he lives into the Harris column.
President-elect Donald Trump won 49.6 percent of the votes in Blue Earth County, where Walz’s family has lived for more than 20 years. Harris was at 48.3 percent, according to the New York Post.
In 2020, President Joe Biden won the county with 51 percent of the vote against 46.5 percent for Trump, according to Politico.
Walz’s selection has been cited as a possible reason Harris lost.
Lindy Li, a member of the Democratic National Committee’s National Finance Committee and Pennsylvania commissioner, said selecting Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro instead might have rescued the campaign, Fox News reporter Jacqui Heinrich posted on X.
“Tim Walz was a bad choice of running mate, Shapiro would have carried the blue wall,” Heinrich quoted Li as saying, referring to the northern states of Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania that have often carried Democrats to victory.
Walz ran into headwinds amid allegations of fabricating his