Announcement comes after ongoing fraud of social services cases became focus of ire for Republicans and Trump US politics live – latest updates Tim Walz , the Democratic governor of Minnesota who ran for vice-president in 2024, announced on Monday that he is abandoning his quest for a third term in office. The move comes after ongoing fraud of social services cases caught the attention of US Republicans, including Donald Trump , who then used the cases as a pretext to go after Somali residents. Walz said in a statement that he wasn’t able to “give a political campaign my all”. Continue reading...