Report: Governor Walz May End Re-election Campaign

Kare11 ^ | 1/4/2026

[toast]

ST PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota Governor Tim Walz could soon end his re-election campaign, according to political analyst Blois Olson.

"He's likely to drop out of the 2026 #mngov race," posted Olson, citing his sources. KARE 11 can confirm that Walz will hold a press briefing on Monday at 11 a.m., though his office has not confirmed what he will discuss.

[mbrfl]

By his own admission, he can be a knucklehead at times. Maybe he’s about to do the first intelligent thing he’s done in years.

[doc maverick]

Is he going to flee to China?

[Mouton]

Probably worried about being maduroed.

[NorthMountain]

Perhaps he will end it on the Capitol Steps, with a tanto ...

[Georgia Girl 2]

Yes, its hard to run for governor from the slam.

[j.havenfarm]

In the immortal words of Mrs Walz, it’s time to “turn the page.”

[No name given]

True.

[KC_Conspirator]

Those somali day care and heathcare kickbacks might not be rolling in like in the past.

[PGR88]

Somalis are toxic

[No name given]

Here’s hoping he drops out.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

The deeper they dig into the Somali corruption, the closer they get to tying all of it around Walz's neck.

Walz is not so chipper these days. He hasn't been seen prancing around doing his Chinese Ching Chong kowtow bow theatrics.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

But he’s been working so hard to prevent fraud. How will the job ever get done without him?

[No name given]

Yep.

[frank ballenger]

I doubt it. He has no character or integrity.

And if Tim Walz is not around as one of our prominent leaders how will boys grow up learning how to be a man from Walz? They need a “coach” and a role model of manliness.

Oh, yeah..../SARC

[frank ballenger]

As with other Dems, the replacement will say “Although Walz was much farther to the Right than I, he held a place for my socialist candidacy to take off from.”

[Bullish]

Maybe Walz should seek refugee status in Samolia?

[Bullish]

Once the money dries up so does his aspiration for re-election. count on it. And the money IS drying up.

[Belteshazzar]

No, that would be too bad. Let him stay in the race and force Minnesotans (of whom I formerly was one) to choose between blind, unworkable ideology, corruption, and incompetence and a new beginning. If they want the knucklehead to remain in office, well let it be as H. L. Mencken said, the people deserve to get what they vote for ... good and hard.

[henbane]

Perhaps Governor Walz has learned that he is now a key figure in the Government's unannounced RICO investigation of Somalian fraud in Minnesota.

Should things go public this summer, great holes will be blown across the board into all Dem campaigns.

Walz is getting out while the getting is good.