“Why wouldn’t this have come up when he ran for governor?”
Or when he ran for Congress back in ‘96.
Trump and the GOP should tread lightly with this one.
I have told the story here several times—I worked on a Republican Congressional campaign decades ago that tried to unseat the incumbent Gerry Studds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Studds
We had solid intelligence that he was having sex with male congressional pages but our candidate refused to use it against Studds.
We lost the race—badly.
As you can see from the article it later surfaced that Studds had been assaulting young men for decades—even before he went to Congress.
As to the Walz case—it is too late to make this an issue in this campaign—but I suspect there are a lot of victims of Walz who have every right to seek compensation—and justice.