Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has charmed the political class across the United States with his folksy affect. Back in home in Minnesota, Walz’s constituents in liberal strongholds are wondering whether they can support his bid to serve as Kamala Harris’s vice president while Israel uses U.
S. weapons to escalate a brutal war in the Middle East. Leaders of the large Muslim community in Minneapolis gathered on Wednesday to warn Democrats that voters are despondent and at risk of staying home on Election Day after months of watching Israeli forces kill and displace civilians in Gaza, the West Bank and now Lebanon.
The press conference came a day after Walz’s debate with Ohio Sen. J.D.
Vance, the Republican vice presidential nominee. In the debate, which kicked off with a question asking whether each nominee would support a preemptive Israeli strike on Iran, Walz said “the expansion of Israel and its proxies is an absolute, fundamental necessity for the United States to have the steady leadership there.” Jaylani Hussein, a board member of the Justice and Equality Coalition in Minneapolis, told reporters that Walz still has not met with Palestinian families in Minnesota who lost relatives in Gaza, including one family that saw 42 members across three generations massacred in a single Israeli airstrike in November 2023.
“I think we have unfortunately been traumatized by the murder of all these children, and I think a lot more people will be voting against Kamala Harris, and t.
