According to Democrats, one of the reasons Kamala Harris selected Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate is his appeal to rural voters in the so-called “blue wall” states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. Democrats, with the help of the compliant media, are shamelessly selling the fiction that Walz has rural appeal. A New York Times opinion piece offered this: “What a relief, then, to see emerge on the national stage the Minnesota governor and Democratic vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz who embodies the earnest, human rural people who shaped me and the prairie populism that shaped the progressive foundations...