Comparing J. D. Vance to Tim Walz
I want to apologize in advance for the length of this post. But this is a ‘deep dive’ into our two Vice President candidates, since one has resorted to verbally tearing down the other.
This is a breakdown of the two Vice President candidates. This is being done since Vance has lodged his complaints against Walz. We’ll see where the truth really lies!
This chart displays the experience that underpins both the Democratic and the Republican platforms.—Chart created by, and used with permission of, Carl Selfe (Substack subscriber)
First, let’s see about J. D. Vance, running mate of Donald J. Trump, Republican candidates for President and Vice President.
James David "JD" Vance
(Born James Donald Bowman; August 2, 1984)
American politician
Author
Marine veteran
Served since 2023 as the junior United States senator from Ohio
Member of the Republican Party
Nominee for vice president in the 2024 United States presidential election
After graduating from Middletown High School, Vance joined the US Marine Corps, where he served from 2003 to 2007 as a combat correspondent in a non-combative role, including a six-month deployment in the public affairs department in Iraq. He attended Ohio State University afterward, graduating in 2009, then graduated in 2013 from Yale Law School, where he was an editor of The Yale Law Journal. In 2016, Vance published his memoir Hillbilly Elegy, which was adapted into a feature film in 2020.
Vance won the 2022 United States Senate election in Ohio, defeating Democratic nominee Tim Ryan. Initially opposed to Donald Trump's candidacy in the 2016 election, Vance has become a strong Trump supporter since Trump's presidency. In July 2024, Trump selected Vance as his running mate before the Republican National Convention.
Vance has been described as a national conservative and right-wing populist, and he describes himself as a member of the post liberal right. His political positions include opposition to abortion, same-sex marriage, and gun control. Vance is an outspoken critic of childlessness, linking it to sociopathy and advocating that parents should have more voting power than non-parents. He opposes continued American military aid to Ukraine. Vance has suggested that conservatives should use state power to forcefully re-staff institutions with ideological allies who will "actually take a side in the culture war".
Early life and education
James Donald Bowman was born on August 2, 1984, in Middletown, Ohio, to Beverly Carol (née Vance; born 1961) and Donald Ray Bowman (1959–2023). He is of Scots-Irish descent. His parents divorced when he was a toddler. After Bowman was adopted by his mother's third husband, Bob Hamel, his mother changed his name to James David Hamel to remove his father's name but used the name of one of her brothers to preserve his nickname, JD.
Vance has written that his childhood was marked by poverty and abuse, and that his mother struggled with drug addiction. Vance and his sister Lindsey were raised primarily by his maternal grandparents, James (1929–1997) and Bonnie Vance (née Blanton; 1933–2005), whom they called "Papaw" and "Mamaw". His grandparents on both sides moved to Ohio from Kentucky's Appalachia.
Vance (then Hamel) in the US Marine Corps, 2003
After graduating from Middletown High School in 2003, Vance enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps and served as a combat correspondent in a non-combative role in Iraq for six months in late 2005. He completed a total of four years of service. He was part of the Public Affairs section of the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing and said that his service "taught me how to live like an adult" and that he was "lucky to escape any real fighting". His decorations included the Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal and Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal.
Using the G.I. Bill, Vance attended Ohio State University from September 2007 to August 2009, graduating summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and philosophy. He finished his undergraduate studies in less than two years. During his first year in college, he worked for Republican state senator Bob Schuler.
After graduating from Ohio State, Vance attended Yale Law School, beginning in the fall of 2010, on a nearly full-ride scholarship for his first year. He became close friends during Yale's orientation with Jamil Jivani, a future Conservative member of Canadian parliament. During his first year, Professor Amy Chua, author of the 2011 book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, persuaded him to begin writing his memoir, Hillbilly Elegy.
Vance was an editor of The Yale Law Journal and graduated in 2013 with a Juris Doctor degree. In 2010 and 2011, he wrote for David Frum's "FrumForum" website under the name J. D. Hamel. Although Hillbilly Elegy implies that Vance adopted his grandparents' surname of Vance upon his marriage in 2014, the name change actually occurred in April 2013, as he was about to graduate from Yale.
Early career
After graduating from law school, Vance worked for Republican Senator John Cornyn. He spent a year as a law clerk for Judge David Bunning of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, then worked at the law firm Sidley Austin, beginning a brief career as a corporate lawyer. Having practiced law for slightly under two years, Vance moved to San Francisco to work in the technology industry as a venture capitalist. Between 2016 and 2017, he served as a principal at Peter Thiel's firm, Mithril Capital.
Writing
In June 2016, Harper published Vance's book, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis. It was on The New York Times Best Seller listin 2016 and 2017. The New York Times called it "one of the six best books to help understand Trump's win".
The Washington Post called Vance the "voice of the Rust Belt", while The New Republic criticized him as "liberal media's favorite white trash–splainer" and the "false prophet of blue America." Economist William Easterly, a West Virginia native, criticized the book, writing: "Sloppy analysis of collections of people—coastal elites, flyover America, Muslims, immigrants, people without college degrees, you name it—has become routine. And it's killing our politics."
Vance was a CNN contributor in early 2017. In April 2017, Ron Howard signed on to direct the film version of Hillbilly Elegy, which was released in select theaters on November 11, 2020. It was released on Netflix for streaming.
Our Ohio Renewal
In December 2016, Vance said he planned to move to Ohio and would consider starting a nonprofit or running for office. In Ohio, he started Our Ohio Renewal, a 501(c)(4) advocacy organization focused on education, addiction, and other "social ills" he had mentioned in his memoir. According to a 2017 archived capture of the nonprofit's website, the members of the advisory board were Keith Humphreys, Jamil Jivani, Yuval Levin, and Sally Satel. According to a 2020 capture of the website, those four remained in those positions throughout the organization's existence. Our Ohio Renewal closed after less than two years with sparse achievements. According to Jivani, the organization's director of law and policy, its work was derailed by Jivani's cancer diagnosis.
During Vance's 2022 campaign for US Senate, Tim Ryan, the Democratic nominee, said the charity was a front for Vance's political ambitions. Ryan pointed to reports that the organization paid a Vance political adviser and conducted public opinion polling, while its efforts to address addiction failed. Vance denied the characterization. A 2021 report by Business Insider revealed that Our Ohio Renewal's tax filings showed that in its first year, it spent more on "management services" provided by its executive director Jai Chabria, who also served as Vance's top political adviser, than it did on programs to fight opioid abuse.
According to the Associated Press (AP), the charity's biggest accomplishment, sending psychiatrist Sally Satel to Ohio's Appalachian region for a yearlong residency in 2018, was tainted by the ties among Satel, her employer, American Enterprise Institute (AEI), and Purdue Pharma, in the form of knowledge exchange between Satel and Purdue and financial support from Purdue to AEI, as found by a ProPublica 2019 investigation. In an email to AP, Satel denied having any relationship with Purdue or any knowledge of Purdue's donations to AEI.
Investing
In 2017, Vance joined the investment firm Revolution LLC. It was founded by Steve Case, who also cofounded AOL. Vance was tasked with expanding the "Rise of the Rest" initiative, which focuses on growing investments in underserved regions outside Silicon Valley and New York City. In 2019, Vance co-founded Narya Capital in Cincinnati with financial backing from Thiel, Eric Schmidt, and Marc Andreessen. In 2020, he raised $93 million for the firm. With Thiel and former Trump adviser Darren Blanton, Vance has invested in Rumble, a Canadian online video platform popular with the political right.
Decision to run for office
In early 2018, Vance considered running for the US Senate against Sherrod Brown, but did not. In March 2021, Peter Thiel gave $10 million to Protect Ohio Values, a super PAC created in February to support a potential Vance candidacy. Robert Mercer also gave an undisclosed amount. In April, Vance expressed interest in running for the Senate seat being vacated by Rob Portman. In May, he launched an exploratory committee. Vance is an ally of Republican fundraiser Nate Morris, who has also financially supported Kentucky Senator Rand Paul.
Vance announced his Senate campaign in Ohio on July 1, 2021.[12] On May 3, 2022, he won the Republican primary with 32% of the vote,[79]defeating multiple candidates, including Josh Mandel (23%) and Matt Dolan (22%).
On November 8, in the general election, Vance defeated Democratic nominee Tim Ryan with 53% of the vote to Ryan's 47%. This vote share was considered a vast underperformance compared to other Ohio Republicans, especially in the coinciding gubernatorial election.
While Vance had often previously spelled his name with periods after the initials of his given names ("J.D.") – including in the publication of Hillbilly Elegy – he dropped this styling after becoming a candidate for office by removing the periods ("JD").
2022 United States Senate election in Ohio
The 2022 United States Senate election in Ohio was held on November 8, 2022, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Ohio. Republican writer and venture capitalist JD Vance defeated Democratic U.S. Representative Tim Ryan to succeed retiring incumbent Republican Rob Portman.
Vance won by a 6.1 point margin, which was significantly closer than all other concurrently held elections for statewide offices in Ohio won by Republicans, but fairly consistent with polling for the election. Despite his defeat, Ryan flipped four counties carried by Portman in re-election in 2016: Summit, Montgomery, Hamilton, and Lorain, the latter of which Trump won in 2020; however, Vance scored wins in Ryan's home county of Trumbull and the industrial-based Mahoning County that contains much of Youngstown. Both counties were represented by Ryan in his congressional district. Overall, however, this election marked the worst victorious Republican performance in the Class III seat since 1968, and the best Democratic performance since 1992. It is also the closest election since 1992.
Vance was endorsed by Donald Trump and became the only candidate in the seven statewide general election races funded by Trump's PAC to win.
Tenure
On January 3, 2023, Vance was sworn in to the Senate as a member of the 118th United States Congress, the first US senator from Ohio without previous political experience since John Glenn, who took office in 1974.
Data from mid-July 2024 showed that Vance had made 45 Senate speeches and sponsored 57 legislative bills, none of which had passed the Senate; he had also co-sponsored 288 bills, of which two passed both the Senate and the House, but were vetoed by President Biden.[83]
Vance's Senate work has included:
Co-sponsored a bill with Senator Raphael Warnock(D-GA) to lower the price of insulin.
Collaborated with Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) to claw back executive pay when big banks fail.
Along with Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA14), introduced a companion bill that would criminalize gender-affirming care for minors with penalties of up to 12 years in prison.
Vance has also voted against raising the debt ceiling, standing against final passage of the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023.
Vance was criticized for his delayed response to the 2023 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. His office released an official statement on February 13, 2023, ten days after the derailment, though Vance had sent a message on social media about the derailment the day after it occurred.
On February 26, 2023, Vance wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post supporting the provision of PPP style funds to those affected by the derailment, which some Republican senators criticized. On March 1, 2023, Vance, Brown, and Senators John Fetterman, Bob Casey, Josh Hawley, and Marco Rubio proposed bipartisan legislation to prevent derailments like the one in East Palestine.
Committee assignments
Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection subcommittee
Housing, Transportation, and Community Development subcommittee
Securities, Insurance, and Investment subcommittee
Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Communications, Media, and Broadband subcommittee
Oceans, Fisheries, Climate Change, and Manufacturing subcommittee
Space and Science subcommittee
Senate Special Committee on Aging
Vance and Trump standing together during the first night of the 2024 Republican National Convention
On January 31, 2023, Vance endorsed former President Donald Trump in the 2024 Republican Party presidential primaries. On July 15, 2024, the first day of the Republican National Convention, Trump announced that he had chosen Vance as his running mate in a post on Truth Social. On July 17, the third day of the convention, Vance accepted the nomination to be Trump's running mate. He is the first Marine veteran on a presidential ticket.
Trump's two eldest sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, advocated for their father to choose Vance. Several media and industry figures are said to have lobbied for Vance to be on the presidential ticket, including Elon Musk, David O. Sacks, and Tucker Carlson. The Heritage Foundation, which drafted Project 2025, privately advocated for Vance to be Trump's vice-presidential pick. Musk responded to Trump's vice-presidential pick hours after its announcement, saying the ticket "resounds with victory". David Sacks, a prominent GOP donor and Silicon Valley venture capitalist, wrote on Twitter: "This is who I want by Trump's side: an American patriot." In 2022, Sacks gave Vance's Senate campaign $900,000, and Peter Thiel added $15 million. While it was initially reported that Elon Musk would contribute $45 million monthly, Musk later said he planned to donate "much lower amounts".
On May 15, 2024, Trump attended a $50,000 per head private fundraising dinner with Vance in Cincinnati. Guests included Chris Bortz and Republican fundraiser Nate Morris. Vance appeared at significant conservative political events and in June was described as a potential running mate for Trump. In July, a former friend of Vance's from Yale Law School exposed to the media communications between them and Vance from 2014 to 2017, with the friend alleging that Vance has "changed [his] opinion on literally every imaginable issue that affects everyday Americans" in pursuit of "political power and wealth".
In late July 2024, after President Joe Biden withdrew his candidacy for reelection and Vice President Kamala Harris became a presidential candidate, Vance said at a private fundraiser that the "bad news is that Kamala Harris does not have the same baggage as Joe Biden ... Kamala Harris is obviously not struggling in the same ways that Joe Biden did"; a day later, Vance told the media: "I don't think the political calculus changes at all" whether Harris or Biden was the Democratic nominee. Following criticism of his past remarks and political positions, Vance said in an August 2024 interview that a vice president "doesn't really matter" and that "Kamala Harris has been a bad vice president". This came after Trump said that the "vice president, in terms of the election, does not have any impact".
Comments on childless women
Shortly after being named Trump's running mate, Vance was criticized for saying in a 2021 Fox News interview, "we are effectively run in this country via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they've made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable too." The resurfaced comments sparked immediate backlash across news and social media. Jennifer Aniston, who has been public about her fertility struggles, criticized Vance in an Instagram story, writing, "I truly can't believe this is coming from a potential VP of The United States." Once the comments went viral, MSNBC's Morning Joe host Mika Brzezinskimocked Vance by appearing on her show petting a cat that was sitting on her lap and asking: "My kids are older. Does that make me childless? I want to qualify." On July 26, 2024, Vance clarified his remarks on The Megyn Kelly Show, saying, "It's not a criticism of people who don't have children" and "this is about criticizing the Democratic Party for becoming anti-family and anti-child".
After backlash to the Fox News interview, additional comments that Vance made in interviews about women and childless people resurfaced. In a 2020 podcast interview, he said that being childless "makes people more sociopathic and ultimately our whole country a little bit less, less mentally stable". Vance also suggested in a March 2021 interview on The Charlie Kirk Show that people without children should be taxed at a higher rate than those with children, adding that the US should "reward the things that we think are good" and "punish the things that we think are bad".[124] In a May 2021 interview with The Federalist Radio Hour, Vance was quoted as saying, "I think we have to go to war against the anti-child ideology that exists in our country", and called journalists who advocate for women to pursue careers over having children"sad, lonely, and pathetic".
Public reactions
The week after the Republican convention, opinion polls average showed Vance with a −6 net approval, vastly below the average of +19 that major-party vice-presidential nominees have averaged since 2000 in post-convention opinion polls. That week, Vance's middling public reception and other concerns led some prominent Republican politicians and political scientists to say that Vance may have been a poor choice of running mate, especially in light of the election's dynamics shifting upon the withdrawal of President Biden from the election and advent of Kamala Harris as the likely Democratic nominee.
On July 15, 2024, an Internet hoax spread from social network X falsely claiming that Hillbilly Elegydescribed Vance masturbating using a latex glove placed between couch cushions. Internet memes were generated in response, and the viral hoax's spread was amplified after the Associated Press published and promptly deleted a fact-check of it. In a rally on August 6, Minnesota governor Tim Walz, who was chosen as Harris's running mate earlier that day, obliquely referenced the hoax while challenging Vance to a debate. The acknowledgement of the hoax by the Harris campaign and its willingness to use it as an attack line received significant media coverage, with some using it as an example of part of a broader messaging shift within the campaign.
Political positions
During his time in the U.S. Senate, JD Vance has been described as national conservative, right-wing populist, and an ideological successor to paleoconservatives such as Pat Buchanan. Vance describes himself, and has been described by others, as a member of the postliberal right. He is known for his ties to Silicon Valley.
On social issues, Vance is considered conservative.
He opposes:
Abortion
Same-sex marriage
Gun control
He has linked childlessness with sociopathy, and advocated that parents have more voting power than non-parents.
Vance has lamented that increased divorces adversely affect children of divorced parents.
He has proposed federal criminalization of gender-affirming care for minors.
He opposes continued American military aid to Ukraine during the ongoing Russian invasion.
In 2016, Vance was an outspoken critic of then-Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, calling Trump "reprehensible" and "America's Hitler" and himself a "never Trump guy". In 2021, after Vance announced his Senate candidacy, he publicly announced support for Trump, apologizing for his past criticisms of Trump and deleting some of them. That year, Vance advised Trump to fire "every civil servant" to replace them with "our people". Vance has said that if he were vice president during the 2020 presidential election, he would have deviated from certifying the election results, and instead would insist that some states that Trump lost should send pro-Trump electors so that Congress could decide the election.
Vance has said he is "plugged into a lot of weird, right-wing subcultures" online. News sources have noted he follows controversial figures such as Bronze Age Pervert, Raw Egg Nationalist, and Lomez on X (formerly Twitter), and he exchanged text messages with far-right activist Chuck Johnson for almost two years. Vance has credited the far-right influencer Curtis Yarvin for many of his political views. He wrote a blurb for the cover of a book coauthored by alt-right activist Jack Posobiec and Joshua Lisec, Unhumans: The Secret History of Communist Revolutions (and How to Crush Them), which argues that those on the political left should be considered less than human.
Now, let’s do a ‘deep dive into the Democratic Vice Presidential nominee.
Tim Walz
Timothy James Walz
(Born April 6, 1964)
American politician
Former schoolteacher
Retired U.S. Army non-commissioned officer (NCO)
Has served as the 41st governor of Minnesota since 2019
Democratic Party's nominee for vice president in the 2024 U.S. presidential election.
He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 2007 to 2019, and was the ranking member of the House Veterans' Affairs Committee from 2017 to 2019.
Tim Walz during Army Basic Training, 1981
Military service
Branch/service
United States Army
Nebraska Army National Guard
Minnesota Army National Guard
Years of service
1981–2005
Rank
Command Sergeant Major
Unit
1st Battalion, 125th Field Artillery Regiment
Battles/wars
War in Afghanistan
Operation Enduring Freedom
Awards
Army Commendation Medal
Army Achievement Medal
Walz was born in West Point, Nebraska. After high school, he joined the Army National Guard and worked in a factory. He later graduated from Chadron State College in Nebraska before moving to Minnesota in 1996. Before running for Congress, he was a high school social studies teacher and football coach. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for Minnesota's 1st congressional district in 2006, defeating six-term Republican incumbent Gil Gutknecht.
Walz was reelected to the House five times before being elected governor of Minnesota in 2018. He was reelected in 2022, defeating Republican nominee Scott Jensen. During his second gubernatorial term, Walz pushed for and signed a wide range of legislation, including tax modifications, free school meals, bolstering state infrastructure, universal gun background checks, codifying abortion rights, and free college tuition for low-income families.
On August 6, 2024, Vice President Kamala Harrisannounced Walz as her running mate in the 2024 presidential election.
Early life and education
Timothy James Walz was born on April 6, 1964, in West Point, Nebraska, to Darlene Rose Reiman, a homemaker, and James F. Walz, a teacher, school superintendent, and U.S. Army veteran who served in the Korean War. He is of German, Swedish, Luxembourgish, and Irish descent; in 1867 his great-great-grandfather Sebastian Walz emigrated from Kuppenheim in the Grand Duchy of Baden, now in Germany, to the United States, and one of his grandmothers was Swedish American. Walz was raised Catholic.
Walz and his three siblings grew up in Valentine, Nebraska, a rural community in the northwestern part of the state in an area of farms and ranchland. In school he played football and basketball and ran track. After school he would go hunting with his friends. While Walz was in high school, his father was diagnosed with lung cancer. After his father's diagnosis, his family moved to Butte, Nebraska, to be closer to his parents' relatives. During the summers he worked on the farm. Walz graduated from Butte High School in 1982 with a class of 25 students.
Walz's father died in January 1984. He subsequently moved to Texas and started studying at the University of Houston while being enlisted in the Texas Army National Guard. Afterward he went to Arkansas, where he built tanning beds in a factory and was an instructor in the Arkansas Army National Guard. In 1987, Walz returned to Nebraska and continued his education at Chadron State College, where he earned a bachelor of science degree in social science education in 1989.
Early career
Teaching
After graduating from Chadron State College in 1989, Walz accepted a one-year teaching position with WorldTeach in Foshan No.1 High School in Guangdong, China. After returning, he took a job teaching and coaching in Alliance, Nebraska, and in 1993 was named Outstanding Young Nebraskan by the Nebraska Junior Chamber.
While working as a teacher, Walz met his wife, Gwen Whipple, a fellow teacher, and in 1994 the two married. Two years later, they moved to Mankato, Minnesota, Gwen's home state, where Walz worked as a geography teacher and football coach at Mankato West High School. The team had lost 27 straight games when he joined the coaching staff as a defensive coordinator. Three years later, in 1999, the team won its first state championship.
In 1999, Walz agreed to be the faculty advisor of Mankato West High School's first gay–straight alliance. From 1994 to 2003, he and his wife also ran Educational Travel Adventures, which organized summer educational trips to China for high-school students. Walz earned a master of science in educational leadership from Minnesota State University, Mankato, in 2001, writing his master's thesis on Holocaust education. In March 2006, he took a leave of absence from teaching to focus on his congressional campaign.
Military service
With his father's encouragement, Walz enlisted in the Army National Guard the day after he turned 17. His father had served in the Korean War and paid for his education degree with the G.I. Bill, and he wanted his son to have the same opportunity.
Walz served in the National Guard for 24 years after enlisting in 1981. During his military career, he had postings in Arkansas, Texas, the Arctic Circle, New Ulm, Minnesota, Italy, and elsewhere. He trained in heavy artillery. During his service, he worked in disaster response postings following floods and tornadoes and was deployed overseas. In 1989, he earned the title of Nebraska Citizen-Soldier of the Year.
In 2001, Walz completed the 20 years of service needed for retirement from the Guard, but he reenlisted after the September 11, 2001 attacks. In August 2003, Walz deployed with the Minnesota National Guard to Vicenza, Italy, for nine months to serve with the European Security Force as part of Operation Enduring Freedom. Walz attained the rank of command sergeant major near the end of his service and briefly was the senior enlisted soldier of 1st Battalion, 125th Field Artillery Regiment. His decorations included the Army Commendation Medal and two Army Achievement Medals.
In February 2005, Walz submitted official documents to run for the U.S. House of Representatives. The next month, the National Guard announced a possible deployment to Iraq within the next two years. Walz retired from military service in May 2005, later explaining that he wanted to focus on his campaign for Congress and did not want to violate the Hatch Act, which forbids some political activities by federal government employees.
During his political career, Republicans, notably rival Vice Presidential candidate JD Vance, have used the timing of his military retirement as a smear campaign that has been compared to swiftboating. A National Guard colleague, Joe Eustice, recalled that at the time Walz retired, his unit's deployment was only a "rumor" and not yet confirmed, while his enlisted superior, Doug Julin, claimed that Walz bypassed his retirement approval, instead receiving retirement approval from two higher ranked officers. The Minnesota National Guard confirmed that Walz retired two months before his unit was officially notified in July 2005 of its future deployment to Iraq.
Walz carried and used weapons of war during his service when the U.S. was at war, but he never carried weapons in active combat. In a 2018 statement against gun violence, he said, "We can make sure that those weapons of war, that I carried in war, is the only place where those weapons are at". His choice of the words "in war" rather than "during war" was questioned by the press. Vance and other veterans said that he had claimed to have been in active combat.
Though he was a command sergeant major at the time of his retirement, Walz's final military rank for retirement benefit purposes is master sergeant, as he had not completed the required academic coursework to remain a command sergeant major by his final day of service. The downgrade of one rank was effective from the day before his military retirement.
Political involvement
Walz became first active in politics in August 2004, when he volunteered for John Kerry's presidential campaign. He was inspired to volunteer in the presidential election after he took a group of students to a George W. Bush rally in Mankato, and was angered by the security team's questioning of his students' politics after they saw a Kerry sticker on a student's wallet. He was appointed the Kerry campaign's coordinator for his county as well as a district coordinator of Vets for Kerry. Walz after Kerry's defeat in November completed in January 2005 the three-day campaigns and elections crash course at Camp Wellstone,[53] a program run by Wellstone Action, the nonprofit organization Mark and David Wellstone created to carry on the work of their parents, Paul Wellstone and Sheila Wellstone.
U.S. House of Representatives (2007–2019)
Elections
On February 10, 2005, Walz filed to run for the U.S. House of Representatives from Minnesota's 1st congressional district. The district consisted mostly of Republican-leaning independents. He had no opponent for the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL) nomination in the 2006 primary election. In the general election, he faced six-term incumbent Republican Gil Gutknecht. During the campaign, Walz accused Gutknecht of extending tax cuts to "Wall Street" and sought to tie Gutknecht to President George W. Bush. A centerpiece of Walz's campaign was opposition to the Iraq War, as the war's popularity was declining that year.[59] Walz won the election with 53% of the vote.[61] After his victory, Politico described Gutknecht as having been caught "off guard" and Walz as having "resolved never to get caught like that himself.... He packaged himself as a moderate from Day One, built an office centered on constituent service and carved out a niche as a tireless advocate for veterans."
Walz was reelected in 2008 with 62% of the vote, becoming only the second non-Republican to win a second full term in the district. He won a third term in 2010 with 49% of the vote in a three-way race against Republican state representative Randy Demmer and independent former diplomat Steve Wilson. He was reelected by comfortable margins in 2012 and 2014. In 2016, Walz was narrowly reelected to a sixth term, defeating Republican Jim Hagedorn, who later succeeded Walz as congressman, by 0.7% (or 2,548 votes), even as his district overwhelmingly voted for Donald Trump in the concurrent presidential election. After that, and as his district trended more Republican, Walz did not seek a seventh term in 2018, instead running for governor.
Congressional tenure
Walz's 110th Congress portrait/United States Congress
Upon his swearing in at the beginning of the 110th Congress, Walz became the highest-ranking retired enlisted soldier ever to serve in Congress, as well as only the fourth Democrat/DFLer to represent his district. The others were Thomas Wilson (1887–1889), William Harries (1891–1893), and Tim Penny(1983–1995).
In his first month in Congress, Walz was appointed to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, the Agriculture Committee, and the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee; Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued a special waiver exempting him from the order that barred most freshman members of Congress from serving on more than two committees. That same year he was appointed to the Armed Services Committee. In his first week as a legislator, Walz cosponsored a bill to raise the minimum wage, voted for stem cell research, voted to allow Medicare to negotiate pharmaceutical prices, and voiced support for pay-as-you-go budget rules, requiring that new spending or tax changes not add to the federal deficit.
Walz, with Speaker Pelosi and Rep. Patrick Murphy, speaking on a spending bill, 2007
Even as he represented a district that had usually voted Republican, pundits described Walz's policy positions as ranging from moderate to progressive. He voted to advance the Affordable Care Act out of the House. As a congressman, he also met with the Dalai Lama and served on a commission monitoring human-rights in China.
An opponent of the Iraq war, Walz opposed the Bush administration's plan to send an additional 21,500 troops to Iraq in 2007. But he voted in favor of a bill in May of that year that provided nearly $95 billion in funding for the war through September 30. Walz explained that his vote was to ensure the safety of American troops while also saying he would continue to negotiate a process to pull troops from Iraq.
During the economic crisis in 2008, Walz repeatedly spoke out against using taxpayer money to bail out financial institutions; in late September, he voted against the $700 billion TARP bill, which purchased troubled assets from these institutions. Walz released a statement after the bill's passage, saying: "The bill we voted on today passes the buck when it comes to recouping the losses taxpayers might suffer. I also regret that this bill does not do enough to help average homeowners, or provide sufficient oversight of Wall Street." In December 2008, Walz voted against the bill that offered $14 billion in government loans to bail out the country's large automobile manufacturers. In June 2009, he introduced a bipartisan resolution calling on the federal government to "relinquish its temporary ownership interests in the General Motors Company and the Chrysler Group, LLC, as soon as possible" and said that the government must not be involved in those companies' management decisions.
Despite his votes against bailout bills that loaned federal funds to private enterprises, Walz did vote with his Democratic colleagues to support the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. As a member of the House Transportation Committee, he saw the stimulus bill as an opportunity to work "with his congressional colleagues to make job creation through investment in public infrastructure like roads, bridges and clean energy the cornerstone of the economic recovery plan". Walz has focused heavily on job and economic issues important to the southern Minnesota district he represented in Congress, which has a mix of larger employers such as the Mayo Clinic and small businesses and agricultural interests. In July 2009, he voted for the Enhancing Small Business Research and Innovation Act, which he called "part of our long-term economic blueprint to spur job creation by encouraging America's entrepreneurs to innovate toward breakthrough technological advancements". Walz also urged assistance for hog and dairy farmers who struggled with lower prices for their commodities in 2008 and 2009.
Walz opposes using merit pay for teachers. Voting in favor of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Walz pointed to its strong provisions in support of public school buildings. He is on record supporting legislation to lower tuition costs. In a February 2009 speech, he said that the most important thing to do "to ensure a solid base for [America's] economic future ... is to provide the best education possible for [American] children."
Walz has received strong backing for these policies from many interest groups, including the National Education Association, the American Association of University Women, and the National Association of Elementary School Principals.
Walz with members of the Minnesota National Guard at Anoka High School, 2017
During the 2013 federal government shutdown, Walz chose not to accept his congressional pay, instead donating it to hunger-relief organizations. He accused the political Tea Party movement of contributing to the shutdown, calling it "reckless" and "completely avoidable". "No one should be patting themselves on the back about doing the basic work of government", Walz said.
Walz voted to condemn UN Security Council Resolution 2334, which called the building of Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories a violation of international law.
Walz was ranked the 7th-most bipartisan House member during the 114th Congress (and the most bipartisan member from Minnesota) in the Bipartisan Index created by the Lugar Center and the McCourt School of Public Policy, which ranks members of Congress by measuring how often their bills attract co-sponsors from the opposite party and how often they co-sponsor bills by members of the opposite party.
Committee assignments
Committee on Agriculture
Agriculture Subcommittee on Forestry
Agriculture Subcommittee on Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development
Committee on Veterans' Affairs (ranking member, 115th Congress)
Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs
Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
Armed Services Committee
Caucus memberships
Chair, Congressional EMS Caucus
Co-chair, National Guard and Reserve Component Caucus
Co-chair, Congressional Sportsmen's Caucus
Co-chair, Congressional Veterans Jobs Caucus
Member, LGBT Equality Caucus
Member, Congressional Arts Caucus
Commissions
Congressional-Executive Commission on China
Governor of Minnesota (2019–present)
Elections
2018
In March 2017, Walz announced he would run for governor after Mark Dayton, the incumbent Democratic governor, chose not to seek a third term. His main opponent in the Democratic primary was originally state representative Erin Murphy, whom Walz lost the state partyendorsement to at the party's convention in June 2018. Shortly after, state Attorney General Lori Swanson entered the race late in the campaign, but Walz ultimately secured a victory over Murphy and Swanson in the August primary election. On November 6, 2018, Walz was elected governor, defeating the Republican nominee, Hennepin County commissioner Jeff Johnson, 53.84% to 42.43%.
2022
Walz sought reelection in 2022. He won the August 9 Democratic primary and faced Republican nominee Scott Jensen in the November general election. On November 8, 2022, Walz defeated Jensen, 52.3% to 44.6%.
Tenure
Tim Walz's swearing-in as Minnesota's 41st governor with his family by his side, 2019
Walz was sworn in as governor of Minnesota on January 7, 2019, at the Fitzgerald Theater in Saint Paul. Walz took the oath of office alongside incoming lieutenant governor Peggy Flanagan, Minnesota secretary of state Steve Simon, Minnesota state auditor Julie Blaha, and Minnesota attorney general Keith Ellison, all Democrats. Walz spoke about education and healthcare reform in his inauguration speech.
Later in 2019, President Donald Trump selected Walz for a spot on the Council of Governors; in 2021 President Joe Biden appointed Walz as a co-chairman of the Council of Governors. In 2023, Walz was named chair of the Democratic Governors Association, a high-profile position that involves supporting other governors in tight races. He stepped down after being selected as Kamala Harris's running mate. Kansas Governor Laura Kelly succeeded him as chair.
Police reform and protest response
On May 26, 2020, the day after the murder of George Floyd, Walz and Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan demanded justice and called the video of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on George Floyd's neck "disturbing". Walz elaborated, "The lack of humanity in this disturbing video is sickening. We will get answers and seek justice".
In response to riots in Minnesota, Walz partially activated the Minnesota National Guard on May 28, and fully activated it on May 30. President Trump reacted to Walz's actions by saying that he was "very happy" and that he did "fully agree with the way [Walz] handled it … what [the Minnesota National Guard] did in Minneapolis was incredible". Trump called Walz an "excellent guy". Trump also publicly claimed credit for deploying the Minnesota National Guard; Walz's office said Trump had no impact on Walz's deployments of the Minnesota National Guard.
Political opponents and other groups criticized Walz's initial response to the widespread protests following Floyd's murder. He later responded to the murder by ordering the Minnesota legislature to reconvene for special sessions on legislation for police reform and accountability. After police reform failed to pass the first special session in June, a second special session was held in July. On July 21, the legislature passed significant police reform legislation.
The new compromise law included a limited ban on police from using chokeholds so long as the officers are not at greater risk. It banned the old warrior training program, which was regarded as dehumanizing people and encouraging aggressive conduct. It required training peace officers to deal with people with autism or in a mental health crisis and deescalation training for situations that could turn volatile. It also created a special independent unit at the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension for investigations of fatal police encounters and a community relations advisory council to consult with the Police Officers Standards and Training Board on policy changes. Walz signed the legislation into law on July 23, 2020.
Abortion
In January 2023, Walz signed the Protect Reproductive Options Act, which protects access to reproductive health care including abortion, contraception, and fertility treatments in Minnesota. Abortion is legal at all stages of pregnancy in Minnesota. In April 2023, he signed the Reproductive Freedom Defense Act, which bans state agencies from "enforcing out-of-state subpoenas, arrest warrants, and extradition requests" for people who travel to Minnesota for legal abortion, and limits the release of related health records.
Cannabis
Walz at the signing ceremony for House File 100 legalizing recreational cannabis. He was joined by Minnesota's 38th governor, Jesse Ventura.
Walz advocated for the legalization of recreational cannabis as governor of Minnesota. As a candidate for governor in 2017, he said: "We have an opportunity in Minnesota to replace the current failed policy with one that creates tax revenue, grows jobs, builds opportunities for Minnesotans, protects Minnesota kids, and trusts adults to make personal decisions based on their personal freedoms." In 2022, he proposed the creation of a Cannabis Management Office to develop and implement the "regulatory framework for adult-use cannabis" in Minnesota. On May 30, 2023, he signed into law House File 100 to legalize recreational cannabis in Minnesota, which went into effect on August 1, 2023.
Medical debt
In June 2024, Walz signed the Minnesota Debt Fairness Act. Among other things, the act prevents health care providers from denying medically necessary treatment because of outstanding medical debt and prevents medical debt from affecting credit scores.
2023 legislative session
The 93rd Minnesota Legislature, in session from January to May 2023, was the first legislature to be fully Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party-controlled since the 88th Minnesota Legislature in 2013–2015. It passed several major reforms to Minnesota law, including:
requiring paid leave
banning noncompete agreements
cannabis legalization
increased spending on infrastructure and environmental issues
tax modifications
codifying abortion rights
universal free school meals
universal gun background checks.
The Star Tribune called the session "one of the most consequential" ever in Minnesota; Walz called it the "most productive session in Minnesota history". While Walz signed almost all legislation passed by the legislature, he vetoed a bill intended to increase pay for rideshare drivers, his first veto as governor, saying that it did not strike the right balance.
2024 vice-presidential campaign
Walz and Kamala Harris together in March 2024, prior to the start of the Harris–Walz 2024 campaign
On July 22, 2024, Walz endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris after incumbent president Joe Biden withdrew from the 2024 presidential race. After a rapid selection process in which the Harris campaign also vetted Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, Arizona Senator Mark Kelly, Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker, and Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, Harris announced on August 6 that she had chosen Walz as her running mate.
The Democratic National Committee certified Walz's candidacy the same day it was announced. His selection was praised by an ideologically diverse group of politicians, including progressive Democratic representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, centrist independent senator Joe Manchin, and moderate Republican former governor Larry Hogan.
Walz is credited with first publicly describing Donald Trump and his running mate JD Vance as "weird". The term subsequently became a popular meme, especially with young people, and has been widely used by Democrats. No more than a day after Walz was named Harris's running mate, his political opponents nicknamed him "Tampon Tim" for his 2023 signing of a Minnesota law that mandates that menstrual padsand tampons be provided free of charge in public schools "to all menstruating students in restrooms regularly used by students in grades 4 to 12". Walz's political supporters responded favorably to the nickname and the law, and the editorial board of the Star Tribune published a defense of the initiative.
Political positions
Walz has been described as holding both moderate and progressive policy stances. Walz received a 100% rating from Planned Parenthood in 2012, from the American Civil Liberties Union in 2011, from the American Immigration Lawyers Association in 2009–2010, from the AFL-CIO in 2010, from the International Brotherhood of Teamsters in 2009–2010, and from the National Organization for Women in 2007. He also received single-digit ratings from the National Taxpayers Union, Citizens Against Government Waste, Americans for Tax Reform, and FreedomWorks. The United States Chamber of Commerce gave him a 25% rating in 2010.
Abortion
Walz supports a legal right to abortion, and has a 100% rating from Planned Parenthood. The National Right to Life Committee, an anti-abortion organization, gave him a rating of zero. In a March 2024 interview with CNN's Kaitlin Collins, he said, "my neighboring states have tried to criminalize women getting health care", and characterized their policies as "a health care crisis", adding that states need to "trust women to make their own health care decisions" and to "understand that abortion is health care". Also during the interview, he said, "I think old white men need to learn how to talk about this a little more. And I think the biggest thing is: listen to women."
Guns
Walz signing a bill to increase penalties for individuals who facilitate gun straw purchases, 2024
Walz is a gun owner, and supports increased regulations on firearms. While in Congress, Walz was a strong supporter of gun rights and was endorsed by the NRA Political Victory Fund (NRA-PVF) multiple times, receiving an A grade from the organization. Following the Parkland high school shooting in 2018, he denounced the NRA in a Star Tribune opinion piece, and announced that he would donate the equivalent of all of the campaign contributions the NRA-PVF had given him—$18,000—to the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund. As governor, Walz expressed support for gun regulation. In 2023, he signed into law a public safety bill that establishes universal background checks and red-flag laws in Minnesota.
Israel–Hamas war
Walz condemned Hamas's October 7 attacks in Israel. He ordered flags to be lowered to half staff in the following days. After the 2024 Minnesota Democratic presidential primary, in which 19% of voters cast "uncommitted" ballots, Walz took a sympathetic view toward those doing so to protest President Biden's handling of the war in Gaza, calling them "civically engaged".
Of the protests against U.S. funding of the war in Gaza, Walz said: "This issue is a humanitarian crisis. They have every right to be heard... These folks are asking for a change in course, they're asking for more pressure to be put on… You can hold competing things: that Israel has the right to defend itself, and the atrocities of October 7 are unacceptable, but Palestinian civilians being caught in this... has got to end." Walz also said he supports a ceasefire in Gaza.
Labor and workers' rights
Walz talking with workers at the Massman Automation manufacturing plant, 2024
In 2023, Walz signed a law banning captive audience meetings and non-compete clauses. The law also mandates paid sick leave for employees and increases safety inspections and ergonomics requirements to reduce the risk of repetitive strain injuries for warehouse, meatpacking, and healthcare facility workers. It also grants workers some of the strongest protections against wage theft. In October 2023, Walz joined the striking United Auto Workers' picket line. He is a former member of two teachers' unions, the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers.
LGBT rights
Walz supports LGBTQ rights, including federal anti-discrimination laws on the basis of sexual orientation. In a 2009 speech, he called for an end to the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy. Walz voted in favor of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act and the Sexual Orientation Employment Nondiscrimination Act. In 2007, he received a 90% grade from the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest LGBT rights organization. In 2011, Walz announced his support for the Respect for Marriage Act. As governor, Walz has signed a number of bills that support the LGBTQ community. In 2023, he signed bills that banned the practice of conversion therapyand protected gender-affirming care in Minnesota.
Veterans' issues
Walz greeting President Joe Biden, 2023
Having served 24 years in the Army National Guard, as a freshman in Congress Walz was given a rare third committee membership when he was assigned to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Walz was the lead House sponsor of the Clay Hunt Suicide Prevention for American Veterans Act, which directs the Veterans Administration to report on veteran mental health care and suicide prevention programs. It also gives the VA permission to provide incentives to psychiatrists who agree to join the VA medical system.
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Outstanding piece Daniel! A LOT of information here. JD Vance is really every bit as unimpressive as I thought before reading but this helps with discussions in general about the stands of each candidate. Vance is a perfect co-pilot to trump with his utter disrespect toward women & military superiors and others. He is far too inexperienced for this position. And he is totally out of touch with the majority of the U.S. population. Calling himself post-liberal…ugh…should have said pro-Fascist.
I appreciate the deep dive here. Thank you.