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Tim Walz Is No Radical
Tim Walz eggs on the crowd at a Democratic campaign rally with Kamala Harris in Philadelphia on August 6, 2024. (Photo by Andrew Harnik via Getty Images)
The Democratic Party has been tagged—not wrongly—as a party of elites. Tim Walz is not that kind of Democrat, argues Joe Nocera.
By Joe Nocera
08.07.24 — U.S. Politics
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He signed a bill that provides free breakfast and lunches for Minnesota public schoolchildren. An advocate for fighting climate change, he took a page from the Republican playbook and championed legislation to reduce government red tape for renewable energy projects. On his watch, abortion rights, a critical issue for Democrats, were enshrined in state …

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Joe Nocera
Joe Nocera is a senior editor and writer at The Free Press. During his long career in journalism, he has been a columnist at The New York Times, Bloomberg, Esquire, and GQ, the editorial director of Fortune, and a writer at Newsweek, Texas Monthly and The Washington Monthly. He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2007.
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