Nadene Goldfoot
- First joint rally: Vice President Kamala Harris and her newly announced running mate, 60 year old Minnesota Gov. Tim James Walz, born April 6, 1964 in West Point, Nebraska, laid out their vision for the country and how they will aim to defeat Donald Trump in November during their first joint rally in Philadelphia.
- Timothy James Walz was born 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, one of his grandmothers was Swedish American, and one of his great-grandmothers was Irish American. Walz was raised Catholic.
- "As of 2019, the Jewish population of Minnesota was around 65,900 people, with 64,800 of them living in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. This represents about 1% of Minnesota's population." Jews make up 2% of the USA population, so this shows that very few Jews live in Minnesota by comparison. As of 2022–2023, the Jewish population of Greater Portland, Oregon was about 56,600 people, living in 31,100 households. This figure includes 29% of households with children under 18, and 54% of married Jewish adults with a non-Jewish spouse, which is higher than the national average. The community also offers many services, including synagogues, schools, camps, adult learning, cultural arts, volunteer opportunities, and social service support.
Walz condemned Hamas's October 7 attacks in Israel and 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". Not a word acknowledging that Hamas hides their ammunition dumps within
mosques, schools, behind the civilians, the parents of the terrorists. Not a
word about how Israel is being attacked on 7 sides at once, and in order to
survive, must fight back but tries more than any other country has in order not
to harm civilians. Such a shallow understanding of what Israel is facing alone!
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