Min­neso­ta GOP leader sounds alarm on Walz try­ing to ‘bam­boo­zle’ rur­al vot­ers: ‘Bernie Sanders in flan­nel’

DULUTH, Minn. — The Repub­li­can Par­ty chair of a rur­al coun­ty in cen­tral Min­neso­ta is blast­ing the preva­lent media nar­ra­tive that Gov. Tim Walz is a “mod­er­ate” and tells Fox News Dig­i­tal that rur­al vot­ers across the coun­try are being “bam­boo­zled” by that talk­ing point.“I do have a mes­sage for most of our rur­al peo­ple here and any­body else that may be watch­ing this, please, you’re get­ting hood­winked,” Low­ell Smith, a state col­lege edu­ca­tor and chair of the Crow Wing Coun­ty GOP in Brain­erd, Min­neso­ta, told Fox News Dig­i­tal. “You’re get­ting bam­boo­zled. He’s lying to you. He is not for rur­al Amer­i­ca. He only cares about very lib­er­al poli­cies that would be embraced by the elite. He’s not for us. …