Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Har­ris names Min­neso­ta Gov. Tim Walz as her run­ning mate: AP

Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Har­ris, the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty’s pres­i­den­tial nom­i­nee, on Tues­day named Min­neso­ta Gov. Tim Walz as her run­ning mate as she faces off against for­mer Pres­i­dent Trump in the 2024 elec­tion, accord­ing to the Asso­ci­at­ed Press.The nam­ing of the 60-year-old Walz was not a shock­er, as his name was instant­ly thought to be in con­tention in the two weeks since Har­ris suc­ceed­ed Pres­i­dent Biden as the par­ty’s standard-bearer.The 60-year-old Walz, a for­mer con­gress­man, is in his sec­ond term as gov­er­nor of Min­neso­ta, a state that Democ­rats have reli­ably won in pres­i­den­tial elec­tions for decades but that the Trump cam­paign has aimed at flip­ping this cycle.Having the plain­spo­ken Walz on the nation­al tick­et not o …