U.S. election: Tim Walz hunts pheasants, comes home empty-handed [Video]

MINNEAPOLIS –

Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz spent Saturday morning tramping through tall grass on the opening day of Minnesota’s pheasant hunting season, giving the campaign a chance to highlight the governor’s rural roots and love of outdoor sports.

Neither Walz nor Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan managed to bag any pheasants as they hunted near Sleepy Eye, a town about 90 miles (145 kilometres) southwest of Minneapolis. One person in the governor’s own party shot a bird, while nobody in the lieutenant governor’s group did, but six birds were harvested among other hunting parties that participated in a community luncheon afterward, the governor’s office said.

“They can hide, they can get under the grass,” Walz could be heard saying as they searched for one downed bird.