Somber Walz spotted on daughter's Instagram after election loss: 'Live to fight another day'

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was spotted connected his daughter's Instagram leafage this week soon aft helium and Vice President Kamala Harris were defeated by President-elect Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance successful Tuesday's election.

"The Earth keeps spinning and we unrecorded to combat different day,' Walz's girl Hope posted connected her Instagram communicative on with a photograph of a somber Walz, wearing a sweatshirt and cargo pants, holding and petting his cat.

The video is the archetypal sighting of Walz since helium appeared astatine Harris' concession code connected Wednesday astatine Howard University successful Washington, D.C.

"Thank you Vice President @KamalaHarris for putting your religion successful me, and selecting maine arsenic your moving mate," Walz posted connected X this week. "Campaigning astatine your broadside was the grant and privilege of my life."

'SHOULD HAVE BEEN JOSH SHAPIRO': HARRIS' VP CONTENDERS PASSED OVER FOR WALZ DODGE MASSIVE CAMPAIGN LOSS

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is comforted by 2nd man Doug Emhoff arsenic Vice President Kamala Harris delivers remarks conceding the 2024 statesmanlike predetermination astatine Howard University successful Washington, D.C., connected Wednesday. (Reuters/Mike Blake)

Harris faced scrutiny adjacent from immoderate successful her ain enactment implicit her determination to sanction Walz, who galore presumption arsenic further to the near than she is, alternatively than a much mean choice. Prominent Democrat Josh Shapiro, politician of the important plaything authorities of Pennsylvania that Trump carried connected Tuesday night, was viewed by immoderate arsenic a much applicable choice.

"One of the things that are apical of caput is the prime of Tim Walz arsenic vice statesmanlike candidate," Harris-Walz surrogate Lindy Li told Fox News elder White House analogous Jacqui Heinrich astatine Howard University. "A batch of radical are saying contiguous that it should person been Josh Shapiro. Frankly, radical person been saying that for months."

Rob Bluey, president and enforcement exertion of The Daily Signal, told Fox News Digital that Walz being added to the summons was a important mistake successful judgment.

"Historically, vice presidents person small interaction connected a statesmanlike candidate’s fate," Bluey said. "But successful the lawsuit of Tim Walz, it proved to beryllium a disastrous determination that doomed Kamala Harris from the infinitesimal she made it. Not lone was Walz ill-prepared for the nationalist spotlight and media scrutiny, but Harris passed implicit respective amended options. Given however small Americans knew astir Harris oregon her argumentation positions, they were close to question her judgement connected this large decision."

HARRIS WORLD BLAME GAME BEGINS AFTER CRUSHING LOSS TO TRUMP

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz's girl posted a representation of her begetter connected Instagram this week. (Hope Walz/Instagram)

Walz was heavy criticized connected the run way implicit questions astir his honesty regarding his subject service, ties to China, effect to the George Floyd riots successful 2020, and argumentation docket arsenic politician that respective Minnesotans who spoke to Fox News Digital described arsenic radical.

"The prime of Walz was lone 1 of galore disastrous mistakes but symptomatic of 1 larger occupation — the Democratic Party enactment is excessively frightened to accidental nary to the hard-left progressive helping of the party," Julian Epstein, longtime Democratic operative and erstwhile main counsel to the House Judiciary Committee, told Fox News Digital.

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Supporters respond arsenic Vice President Kamala Harris concedes the statesmanlike predetermination during a code astatine Howard University successful Washington, D.C., connected Wednesday. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

"This hard near opposes commonsense solutions that Gov. Shapiro supports — charter schools, for example. Or defeating terrorists alternatively than aping their talking points and positions, which let them to enactment successful powerfulness and rearm for the adjacent genocidal attack," Epstein continued. "It’s the hard-left progressive helping that looks archetypal to payment and redistribution alternatively than economical growth, and to taste extremism connected migration and sex profoundly retired of interaction with the American electorate. Walz was a truly atrocious prime for sure, but their prime was portion of a deeper problem."