Tim Walz ‘surprised’ that he and Kamala Harris lost election to Donald Trump

‘I did the best I could,’ Democratic vice-presidential nominee says in first post-race television interview

In his first television interview since their defeat in the 5 November presidential election, Tim Walz said he was “a little surprised” that he and his fellow Democrat Kamala Harris lost the race to the Republican ticket headed by Donald Trump.

“It felt like at the rallies, at the things I was going to, the shops I was going in, that the momentum was going our way,” the Minnesota governor told KSTP, one of his state’s news outlets, in an interview published on Thursday. “So, yeah, I was a little surprised.

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