As Vice President Kamala Harris and her newly-minted running mate Tim Walz embark on their late summer swing-state circuit, their campaign is setting up infrastructure and testing messages that they think can appeal to rural voters and shave away the GOP's statewide margins across the Midwest and Rust Belt.
According to a strategy memo sent out Wednesday afternoon, Walz, who grew up in a small Nebraska town and represented a red-tinted rural House district in Minnesota, will be the face of this new effort.
