Tim Walz Drops Out of Minnesota Governor Race

Tim Walz Drops Out of Minnesota Governor Race

Former VP candidate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz decided not to run for a third term.

Walz launched his rebid in September.

Walz cited the alleged massive Somali fraud in his statement while making excuses and claiming the Republicans stand in the way of making changes.

“For the last several years, an organized group of criminals have sought to take advantage of our state’s generosity,” Walz stated. “And even as we make progress in the fight against the fraudsters, we now see an organized group of political actors seeking to take advantage of the crisis.”

Oh, you mean making a big deal about the fraud! How dare they!

“Make no mistake: We should be concerned about fraud in our state government,” Walz said. “We cannot effectively deliver programs and services if we can’t earn the public’s trust.”

Walz claimed his administration “made systemic changes to the way” the state does business.

Uh, okay. A little too late:

We’ve gone to the legislature time and again to get more tools to combat fraud. We’ve fired people who weren’t doing their jobs. We’ve seen people go to jail for stealing from our state. We’ve cut off whole streams of funding, in partnership with the federal government, where we saw widespread criminal activity. We’ve put new locks on the doors of our remaining programs, and we’ve hired a new head of program integrity to make sure those locks can’t be broken.

All across the state, Minnesotans are hard at work on this problem. Advocates, administrators, investigators are on the front lines defending the integrity of our state’s programs, and I want to thank them for their efforts.

Yes, it’s totally the fault of President Donald Trump and those who exposed the fraud:

But the political gamesmanship we’re seeing from Republicans is only making that fight harder to win.

We’ve got Republicans here in the legislature playing hide-and-seek with whistleblowers.

We’ve got conspiracy theorist right-wing YouTubers breaking into daycare centers and demanding access to our children.

We’ve got the President of the United States demonizing our Somali neighbors and wrongly confiscating childcare funding that Minnesotans rely on.

Minnesota has to come first – always.

Today, I’m proud of the work we’ve done to make Minnesota the best place to live and raise kids.

I’ve decided to step out of the race and let others worry about the election while I focus on the work. pic.twitter.com/AYbvcOzyPI

— Governor Tim Walz (@GovTimWalz) January 5, 2026

It’s been hard to keep up with the Somali fraud story.

It all began in late November when whistleblowers claimed Walz retaliated against them after they exposed how members of the Somali program scammed the state’s social services programs, including Medicaid, to send back to Somalia.

A report found that those people used the money for luxury homes, cars, and vacations.

The whistleblowers also said they alerted Kamala Harris and the DNC about Walz, the fraud scandals, and his retaliation.

The fraud exploded when Nick Shirley exposed the alleged Somali daycare fraud scheme.

Shirley’s story finally made the national media pay attention…somewhat. Of course, instead of concentrating on Walz and the fraudsters, the media has tried to discredit Shirley.

I ENDED TIM WALZ

— Nick shirley (@nickshirleyy) January 5, 2026

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