Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz announced he won't seek re-election amid a massive fraud scandal plaguing the state. Fox News contributor Mary Katharine Ham joined 'America's Newsroom' to discuss her reaction to the news.

In the fall of 2024, the governor of Minnesota was thrust into the national spotlight as Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris’ "White guy tacos"-loving vice presidential nominee. But after a meteoric fall from grace, Coach Tim announced on Monday that he has danced his last political waltz.

Although he is not resigning from office — at least not yet — Gov. Tim Walz will not seek a third term leading the Gopher State. In the end, the massive scale of Somali fraud that went unchecked under his nose was just too much to recover from.

Bad news on the Somali front snowballed fast for Walz, with reports that as much as $9 billion — with a "b" — was pilfered by members of the migrant community, while the governor appeared to do little but protect the thieves.

Walz might have survived this embroglio had he taken it more seriously as the scandal broke, but the intrepid work of independent journalist Nick Shirley, whose shocking videos of empty daycare centers receiving millions from taxpayers, were likely the final straw.

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