{"id":143570,"date":"2026-01-05T15:15:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T15:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=143570"},"modified":"2026-01-05T15:15:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T15:15:27","slug":"tim-walz-to-drop-out-of-minnesota-governors-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=143570","title":{"rendered":"Tim Walz to drop out of Minnesota governor\u2019s race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Politics<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is dropping out of the Minnesota governor\u2019s race on Monday, according to two people directly familiar with the governor\u2019s thinking.<\/p>\n<p>Walz, who served as the Democrats\u2019 2024 vice presidential nominee, met with Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) on Sunday to discuss the campaign, as Klobuchar considers her own run for the governorship, according to one of the people familiar with the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Walz had faced increasing political pressure over a federal probe into a sweeping fraud scandal in the state. Republicans were eager to tie Walz to the scheme, though he is not accused of any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>Walz is expected to hold a press conference Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/01\/05\/tim-walz-out-minnesota-00710541\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Politics Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is dropping out of the Minnesota governor\u2019s race on Monday, according to two people directly familiar with the governor\u2019s thinking. Walz, who served as&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143570"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}