Tim Walz appearance prompts protests and silent treatment at high school football game: 'getting desperate'

Minnesota politician Tim Walz waltzed onto the bleachers astatine Mankato West High School connected Friday nighttime to ticker a squad helium erstwhile coached arsenic an adjunct play a large rivalry game. 

Walz's quality besides coincided with protests astatine the precocious school, arsenic Pro-Palestine supporters were seen lasting extracurricular the venue.

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Multiple reels of footage of Walz interacting with families connected the bleachers astatine the crippled showed the game's assemblage down him. Many were visibly indifferent to the vice statesmanlike candidate's presence. Multiple attendees were seen staring silently. However, immoderate attendees were talking to and adjacent hugging the governor. 

The 1 recorded lawsuit of Walz garnering cheers from the assemblage was erstwhile helium joined some teams conscionable earlier the crippled to assistance with the coin toss. When his sanction was announced connected the loudspeaker, a fewer mild cheers from the Mankato West bleachers could beryllium heard. 

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Walz's beingness astatine the crippled prompted contention among locals. 

Former Republican Minnesota congressman Jeremy Munson urged radical to amusement up and boo Walz days earlier the game, successful a post connected X.

Meanwhile, seat of the Blue Earth County GOP Yvonne Simon told the Minneapolis Star Tribune that Walz's quality astatine the crippled was owed to desperation. 

"They’re getting hopeless to get the connection out," Simon said. 

The Harris-Walz campaign's latest effort is to necktie the Minnesota governor's candidacy to his stint arsenic the adjunct manager of the Mankato West High School shot team successful Minnesota successful the 1990s. During Walz's tenure arsenic an adjunct connected the staff, the squad won the authorities title successful 1999. Walz's archetypal occupation retired of assemblage was arsenic a teacher successful China, earlier being hired by Mankato West successful 1996, wherever helium was a geography teacher. 

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He was besides the archetypal module advisor of Mankato West High School's archetypal gay–straight alliance, and helium worked to signifier summertime acquisition trips to China for precocious schoolhouse students.

Walz's abbreviated tenure arsenic an adjunct shot manager has been a talking constituent for the Harris run since helium was announced arsenic the moving mate for Harris connected Aug. 7. 

Walz adjacent brought retired members of Mankato West's 1999 authorities title squad during his code astatine the Democratic National Convention connected Aug. 21, erstwhile helium formally accepted the nomination. During that speech, Richard Grenell, erstwhile U.S. ambassador to Germany, critiqued the show successful a station connected X. 

"He was the Assistant Coach not the Coach," Grenell wrote.

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Democratic statesmanlike campaigner US Vice President Kamala Harris listens to her moving mate, Governor Tim Walz, talk during a sojourn with members of the marching set astatine Liberty County High School successful Hinesville, Georgia, August 28, 2024. (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images) (Getty Images)

The lukewarm reception that Walz got astatine Mankato West was really a warmer reception than what helium has received astatine shot games since joining the ticket. 

When Walz attended a Sept. 28 crippled betwixt Minnesota and Michigan successful Ann Arbor, Michigan, fans waited extracurricular afterwards and gave him a harsh farewell. Several successful attendance booed him, with different instrumentality adjacent yelling, "Get retired of here!"

Walz, contempt ne'er having coached past the precocious schoolhouse level oregon adjacent arsenic a caput manager successful precocious school, compared his inheritance arsenic a shot manager to that of Alabama Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville, who served arsenic the caput manager astatine 4 antithetic NCAA Power-5 shot programs from 1995 to 2016. Tuberville led Ole Miss, Auburn, Texas Tech and Cincinnati arsenic caput manager and adjacent won an SEC Championship with Auburn successful 2004. 

"I consciousness similar 1 of my roles successful this present is to beryllium the anti-Tommy Tuberville, to amusement that shot coaches are not the dumbest people," Walz said during a fundraiser lawsuit successful Boston successful aboriginal August.

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