
ST PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Democrats’ 2024 candidate for vice president, is ending his bid for a third term as governor less than four months after launching a reelection campaign.
Walz said in a statement Monday that he believes he would have won another term but decided “that I can’t give a political campaign my all” after what he described as an “extraordinarily difficult year for our state.”
JUST IN: President Trump calls for the deportation of Rep. Ilhan Omar, says every Somali "pirate" should be kicked out of the country.
"Somalia pirates… they're stealing money from the American taxpayer."
"Every one of them should be forced to leave this country, including… pic.twitter.com/XY58Ck5Rk6
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The deputy director of the US’s biggest Muslim civil rights and advocacy group warns that Republican governors’ steps to declare his organization a “terrorist organization” won’t stop with the Muslim community.






Not everything needs to make sense in life, but when a situation seems inexplicable, it may well be that we simply don’t want to admit the truth. The answer to what bedevils us is usually staring us in the face.


