The Instagram photos show Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and his daughter Hope on a sunny autumn Sunday after they finished a 10-mile race during the Twin Cities Marathon weekend.
The father-daughter duo trotted over cracked asphalt in Minneapolis-St. Paul on Oct. 5, race bibs pasted at his stomach and her right thigh.
Their photo finish was punctuated with wide smiles. It was a happier ending to that run than nearly a year ago when then-Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Walz lost to now-President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance.
Since the election, Hope Walz has gained half a million TikTok followers posting from her home in Bozeman, Montana. She courts Gen Z women – Harris won young women by a lesser margin than Biden in 2020 – with her takes on pop culture and politics.
Trump's electoral victory was due, in part, to wooing young men to polling places. Democrats have been strategizing since about how to win over the constituency.
