Radical leftist Gov. Tim Walz’s (D) appearance at a Minnesota high school football game on Friday garnered mixed reactions from attendees.
The vice-presidential candidate traveled to Mankato West High School to watch a team play that he previously helped coach, Fox News reported Saturday.
Video footage shows Walz in the bleachers shaking hands with several people. Some attendees appeared not to care that he was there and focused their attention on the field.
“Gov. Tim Walz politicking, posing for photos, shaking hands, as part of a campaign stop at the Mankato East-West football game,” Star Tribune reporter J.P. Lawrence wrote in the caption of his post:
The Fox report noted anti-Israel protesters were outside the venue during the game.
“The one recorded instance of Walz garnering cheers from the crowd was when he joined both teams just before the game to help with the coin toss. When his name was announced on the loudspeaker, a few mild cheers from the Mankato West bleachers could be heard,” the outlet said.
Everyone at the game was forced to go through a security check with the Secret Service, according to KARE 11. One man told the outlet, “I think Tim is turning this into a political event when it should be about the students, so I’m voicing my opinion and my political beliefs.”
The report noted the man wore a T-shirt to the game with the words “WALZ FAILED” printed on it.
In September, Walz was booed outside a college football game between the University of Michigan and the University of Minnesota, Breitbart News reported.
One person yelled, “Get that bitch out of here!” before everyone started booing, per the video:
@mckenzieallen157 VP candidate Tim Waltz pissed off a lot of #uofm fans today. #trump #2024elections #goblue #daveportnoy ♬ original sound – Kenzie ✨
After the recent football game in Mankato, chair of the Blue Earth County GOP Yvonne Simon said there was an ulterior motive to Walz attending the event.
“They’re getting desperate to get the word out,” Simon commented.
The recent Fox report also detailed Walz’s history with the high school team:
The Harris-Walz campaign’s latest effort is to tie the Minnesota governor’s candidacy to his stint as the assistant coach of the Mankato West High School football team in Minnesota in the 1990s. During Walz’s tenure as an assistant on the staff, the team won the state championship in 1999. Walz’s first job out of college was as a teacher in China, before being hired by Mankato West in 1996, where he was a geography teacher.
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