Entertainment gossip and news from Newsweek's network of contributors Kamala Harris officially announced Tim Walz as her running mate in the 2024 presidential election — and it didn't take long for Taylor Swift fans to claim him as one of their own. On Tuesday, August 6, immediately after the 60-year-old governor of Minnesota accepted Harris' offer to be her vice-presidential pick, Swifties began digging up and quoting Walz's old tweets about the 14-time Grammy winner. "SWIFTIE VP!! TICKETMASTER COUNT YOUR DAYS BABYYYYY!!!!!!!!" one fan wrote via X (formerly known as...
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