Just over a year after his unsuccessful run for vice-president of the United States, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has said he will “never again” seek elected office.
Walz, who served as Kamala Harris’s running mate in the 2024 presidential election, made the remark during an interview with MS Now.
“I will never run for an elected office again,” he said. “Never again.”
“Look, I recognize that I’m a lightning rod,” he continued.
“I know they hate me personally, and they take it out on my constituents.”
JUST IN: A terrified Tim Walz announces he’s NEVER seeking elected office AGAIN
Trump broke him
“I will never run again!”
RESIGN NOW, TIM!pic.twitter.com/0tfJJtON3r
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 29, 2026
Walz recently announced that he would not seek re-election as governor after it emerged he had overseen billions of childcare fraud at the hands of the state’s large Somali community.
JUST IN: Tim Walz tells every American to stop looking at just the fraud in Minnesota because it “happens everywhere”
“This ‘fraud’ thing happens in EVERY STATE!”
Is he serious?!
RESIGN NOW! Put him under criminal investigation, HE KNEW.pic.twitter.com/zeI5TboCkB
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 29, 2026
It also comes amid the ongoing clashes in Minnesota between Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and far-left protesters.
“Every minute I spend defending my own political interests would be a minute I can’t spend defending the people of Minnesota against the criminals who prey on our generosity and the cynics who prey on our differences,” he said in a statement this month.
Tim Walz QUITS re-election bid, total collapse!
Bret Baier: “From VP nominee to not running for governor… quite something.”
Guy Benson: “Richly deserved fall.”
Dems in panic mode.
pic.twitter.com/dwTzpeMIP7— Gunther Eagleman
(@GuntherEagleman) January 6, 2026
His announcement to leave politics for good comes less than a year after he floated the idea of running for the presidency himself.
“Look, I never had an ambition to be president or vice president. I was honored to be asked.”
“If I feel I can serve, I will. And if nationally, people are like, ‘Dude, we tried you, and look how that worked out,’ I’m good with that.”
“If I think I could offer something, I would certainly consider that.”
Failed 2024 Democratic VP Nominee Tim Walz Reveals He Will “Certainly Consider” 2028 Presidential Run
Walz has also ramped up his rhetoric in recent weeks, comparing ICE agents arresting illegal aliens to Nazi’s sending Anne Frank to Auschwitz.
“Allow our children to go back to school. We have got children in Minnesota hiding in their houses, afraid to go outside,” Walz said.
“Many of us grew up reading that story of Anne Frank. Somebody’s going to write that children’s story about Minnesota.”
Gov. Walz: “We grew up reading the story of Anne Frank. Somebody is gonna write one regarding Minnesota.” pic.twitter.com/t8LEAFhZEr
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 25, 2026
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