Hope Walz

Um, but it hasn't, I think just with my dad having such a national profile now, um, and then with what we've seen the administration do to Minnesota as of late, um,

It it's not shocking because I think we knew that this was a possibility in the case when they you know, when he got picked and got this big national profile.

But it is it's vastly different than it was before.

I think you just have more commentary coming from all sides.

Minnesota was like, you know, it's a fairly small state and, you know, flyover country.

And now it seems to be the topic of like everything.

And then when you're you know, your dad's the governor of it, it's just it.

I think the targeting of this community is bullshit.

I went to school at the University of Minnesota for a couple years, and the campus is right near kind of the hub of the Somali community in Minnesota.

It's called, like, Cedar Riverside, and they're trying to paint it as this, like, crime-ridden, dangerous area.

I used to lime scooter around there, like, after class.

Like I'm, you know, so to me, I'm like, what are you even doing?

Like I'm, you know, the, the community is so rich and just culture and just the people are amazing.

And I, you know, I'm friends with people from the community and just like seeing an administration attack an entire group of people because of, you know, things that happened years ago.

And it,

They say it's an entire community.

I'm just like, it doesn't even compute in my brain, to be completely honest.

I'm like, this is just so bizarre.

And it's so sad to see because they make Minnesota what it is.

And that is it's hard to kind of grapple with, I think.