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In Tim Walz's rural hometown, his Democratic politics are an awkward fit

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Tim Walz , the Minnesota governor, was named Vice President Kamala Harris ’ running mate.

Walz is a white guy who spent formative years in Valentine , the remote seat of Cherry County , the nation’s top producer of beef cows.

Democrats are betting Walz will help them broaden their appeal in overwhelmingly white swaths of rural America , where the party has been trying to claw back voters.

Walz hopes to use the spotlight to highlight positive things, like the just-finished, multimillion-dollar overhaul of Main Street .

Walz's father was the school superintendent who fought for a school bond to replace the 1897 schoolhouse said to be haunted by the ghost of a student who died after someone poisoned her clarinet reed.

Butte High School , from which Walz graduated in 1982 , closed years ago .

Darlene Boes , 77 , does not know much about Walz ’s political record.

Boes is a longtime Republican who voted twice for Trump — but is undecided this year .

Richard Meadows , an 81-year-old Democrat , said he and his wife “coexist” peacefully with their Republican neighbors in Butte .

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