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Robert Tait in Washington

‘That’s my dad’: Gus Walz moved to tears as father Tim accepts VP nomination

A teenage boy stands up in the middle of a crowd cries and wrinkles his face while clapping
Gus Walz burst into tears during his father Tim Walz’s speech at the Democratic national convention on Wednesday evening. Photograph: Matt Rourke/AP

Tim Walz’s 17-year-old son Gus stole the show with an emotional display of family fealty as his father delivered his acceptance speech at the Democratic national convention in Chicago.

After the elder Walz described the painful process of starting a family using fertility treatment, television cameras focused on Gus as he stood up, with tears pouring down his face, and pointed to the stage mouthing: “That’s my dad.”

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