Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee for president in the 2024 presidential election, announced Democratic Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota as her running mate on Tuesday.

Walz has had a career in politics spanning nearly 20 years, which began with his election to the United States House of Representatives in 2006. He defeated Republican incumbent Gil Gutknecht by a margin of 52.74% to 47.26%, winning Minnesota's First Congressional District.

Walz served in the House of 2007-2019. After barely winning re-election in 2016 because former president Donald Trump carried his district from almost 15 percentage points in the concurrent presidential election, Walz withdrew before the 2018 gubernatorial election to seek the Democratic nomination for governor.

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He finally earned his party nomination and won the general election defeating Republican Jeff Johnson by a margin of 11.4 percentage points. He won re-election by a slightly smaller margin of 7.7 percentage points in 2022.

Throughout his political career, Walz's political positions were on the record for all to see, specifically his voting pattern in Congress and the laws he passed as governor. Here are five things to know about Tim Walz.