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0:28Now PlayingIt took just moments for Republicans to identify an attack line against Tim Walz, the folksy governor of Minnesota picked by Kamala Harris as her running mate in the presidential election. #politics #trump #jdvance #biden #harris #election #military
His opponents flooded social media with images of burning buildings in the state’s largest city of Minneapolis in the wake of the 2020 murder of George Floyd.
Now, a city that’s long been overshadowed by more bustling neighbors to the east including Chicago, is under scrutiny for its struggles to overcome the lingering effects of the pandemic and upheaval from riots and crime — challenges that overshadow Minnesota’s otherwise strong economic performance under Walz.
Minneapolis’s population remains stuck below pre-Covid levels — while downtown vacancy rates have surged to 24.7%, the highest since the late 1980s, data from real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield shows. Target Corp., one of the city’s largest employers, only requires staff to be in the office one week every quarter. Not even government workers are fully back, hindering the downtown’s recovery.
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