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So while he may “help” with Dem voters, so does Shapiro. I don’t see a parallel with Tester because, to my knowledge, Walz doesn’t win Republican votes. Walz wins the same MN counties all Dems do. He doesn’t carry red counties. See this map from the 22 election. https://www.politico.com/2022-election/results/minnesota/statewide-offices/

The swing area on that map is the arrowhead. In years the dems win, the arrowhead goes blue, in years the GOP wins, the arrowhead goes red. Walz carrying the arrowhead is probably the best argument for him, but MN is unlikely to go to Trump either way.