‘They chose the billionaire’: Tim Walz returns to Minnesota as part of redemption tour

Tim Walz speaks at a town hall event in Des Moines, Iowa, on 14 March. Photograph: Matthew Putney/AP

Tim Walz is trying to regroup to help Democrats fight the Trump administration, but he’s still trying to figure out why he and his party lost in November.

“I knew it was my job to try and pick off those other swing states, and we didn’t,” he said about the 2024 election. “I come back home to lick my wounds and say, goddamn, at least we won here.”