{"id":40489,"date":"2026-01-06T10:31:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T10:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=40489"},"modified":"2026-01-06T10:31:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T10:31:37","slug":"walz-drops-re-election-bid-as-minnesota-fraud-scandal-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=40489","title":{"rendered":"Walz Drops Re-Election Bid as Minnesota Fraud Scandal Grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: Walz Drops Re-Election Bid as Minnesota Fraud Scandal Grows<\/p>\n<p>transcript<\/p>\n<p><span>Back<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1nng8z9\">transcript<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-8p0vwh\">Walz Drops Re-Election Bid as Minnesota Fraud Scandal Grows<\/h2>\n<h4 class=\"css-qsd3hm\">Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota abandoned his re-election bid to focus on handling a scandal over fraud in social service programs that grew under his administration.<\/h4>\n<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">\u201cI\u2019ve decided to step out of this race, and I\u2019ll let others worry about the election while I focus on the work that\u2019s in front of me for the next year.\u201d \u201cAll right, so this is Quality Learing Center \u2014 meant to say Quality \u2018Learning\u2019 Center.\u201d \u201cRight now we have around 56 kids enrolled. If the children are not here, we mark absence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-hple31\">Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota abandoned his re-election bid to focus on handling a scandal over fraud in social service programs that grew under his administration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Shawn Paik<\/p>\n<p>January 6, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>new video loaded: Walz Drops Re-Election Bid as Minnesota Fraud Scandal Grows transcript Back transcript Walz Drops Re-Election Bid as Minnesota Fraud Scandal Grows Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota abandoned his re-election bid to focus on handling a scandal over fraud in social service programs that grew under his administration. \u201cI\u2019ve decided to step out<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[1532,2573,5075,5579,5736,18512,2963,21753],"class_list":{"0":"post-40489","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crime-justice","8":"tag-bid","9":"tag-drops","10":"tag-fraud","11":"tag-grows","12":"tag-minnesota","13":"tag-reelection","14":"tag-scandal","15":"tag-walz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}