Brutal Rejection: Tim Walz's Home County Shows How They Really Feel About Him as Trump's Win Gets Even Bigger

Vice President Kamala Harris chose Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, hoping he might help secure key Midwestern states. However, following her unsuccessful campaign, new data indicates that Walz couldn’t even bring his own home county into Harris’s column.

President-elect Donald Trump won 49.6 percent of the vote in Blue Earth County, where Walz and his family have resided for over two decades. Harris trailed at 48.3 percent, according to reports from the New York Post.

In the 2020 election, President Joe Biden won Blue Earth County with 51 percent of the vote, compared to Trump’s 46.5 percent, Politico reported.

Walz’s selection as running mate has since been cited as a possible factor in Harris’s defeat.

Lindy Li, a member of the Democratic National Committee’s National Finance Committee and Pennsylvania commissioner, suggested that if Harris had selected Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro instead, it might have changed the outcome. Fox News reporter Jacqui Heinrich posted on X, quoting Li, “Tim Walz was a bad choice of running mate. Shapiro would have carried the blue wall,” referencing the Northern states of Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania that are often crucial to Democratic victories.

Walz’s campaign efforts were further challenged by controversies surrounding allegations about his National Guard record.

Trump’s performance in this election marked a significant shift, as he appears poised to win the popular vote nationwide, according to projections by The New York Times.

Trump received over 72.6 million votes, while Harris garnered around 68 million.

The last Republican to win the popular vote was former President George W. Bush in 2004.

Because large Democratic strongholds like New York and California typically yield substantial margins in the popular vote, a Republican winning the popular vote is relatively rare.

For instance, in 2016, Democrat Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by 2.9 million votes over Trump, largely due to her margin of nearly 4.2 million votes in California and 1.7 million in New York, as noted by CNN and The New York Times.

This year, The New York Times reported that Harris’s lead over Trump in California — her home state — was about 1.7 million votes, while her margin in New York was approximately 900,000 votes.