‘Fun Midwestern Dad’ or ‘Radical’? How Media Outlets on the Left and Right Are Covering Tim Walz.

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Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota, has cultivated an Everyman persona throughout his political career, cajoling his vegetarian daughter to eat a corn dog at the state fair, posting videos of himself suggesting simple fixes to car problems and calling Republicans “weird” on cable television. And after he was announced as Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate on Tuesday, partisan media outlets on the left and right either leaned into that characterization or rejected it outright. Writers and commentators at liberal outlets used adjectives like “normal” and “vanilla” to describe his potential appeal to voters in swing states, all while praising Mr. Walz’s stances on progressive issues like abortion and gay rights. Though some conservative outlets acknowledged Mr. Walz’s “folksy manner,” they suggested it was a sheen that could obscure what they called dangerously radical, far-left views on issues like immigration and abortion.