Tim Walz to attend Minnesota - Michigan game in the Big House

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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will campaign in Ann Arbor, Mich., on Saturday, attending the football game between the University of Michigan and the University of Minnesota. The vice-presidential nominee and former Minnesota high school football coach will meet with students during the trip to speak about the importance of registering to vote and the power of their participation, according to a campaign official.

The campaign has leaned into Walz’s identity as a former coach, including at the Democratic National Convention in August, where he was introduced by a former student he coached in baseball and track. Walz was later joined onstage by some of his former football players from Mankato West High School.

On the campaign trail, Walz frequently invokes his experience coaching football. In one frequent line, he derides Project 2025, a lengthy plan for far-right policy proposals written by some of Trump’s supporters but that the former president’s campaign has denounced. When he describes it, Walz tells voters that as a former coach he knows “if you take the time to make a playbook, you’re going to use it.”

The Walz family planned to attend Saturday’s Michigan-Minnesota game before he became the vice-presidential nominee, as part of several celebrations of Walz’s 60th birthday earlier this year, according to a person familiar with his campaign.

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