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What Next - The Scandal That Took Down Tim Walz

What Next - The Scandal That Took Down Tim Walz

Before it became fodder for right-wing YouTubers, local journalists had been investigating welfare fraud in Minnesota’s Somali community.

Slate Daily Feed · Slate

January 7, 202627m 6s

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How a mixture of real investigations, wild allegations, evidence of actual fraud, and the right-wing echo chamber ended Tim Walz’s governor campaign in Minnesota.

Guest: Deena Winter, Minneapolis City Hall reporter for the Star Tribune. 

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Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme, and Rob Gunther.



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