Vice President Kamala Harris , the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, announced Tuesday morning she has selected Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate.

As a governor, a coach, a teacher, and a veteran, hes delivered for working families like his, Harris wrote in a post on X . Its great to have him on the team.

Harris is due to hold a rally with her vice presidential pick in Philadelphia on Tuesday afternoon.

Harris chose Walz over Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. Walz, Shapiro and Kelly all met with Harris at her home in Washington, D.C., on Sunday.

Given Minnesotas status as a reliably, albeit narrowly, Democratic state, the selection of Walz does not immediately put a battleground state in play for Democrats.

But the plainspoken, second-term state chief executive has emerged recently as a prominent attack dog against former President Donald Trump and Sen. JD Vance (Ohio), Trumps running mate.

Lighting into the Republican Partys efforts to restrict abortion rights and certain books in public libraries, Walz coined Democrats weird moniker for the GOP. These are weird people on the other side, he said on MSNBC in July.

Walz has also drawn upon his and his wifes experience needing fertility treatment to argue against what he claims are Republican efforts to ban in vitro fertilization (IVF).

My oldest daughters name is Hope. Thats because my wife and I spent seven years trying to get pregnant, needed fertility treatments, things like IVF things that they would ban, he said on a White Dudes for Harris virtual fundraiser on July 29.

Walz was at home with his family when he learned he had been chosen during a phone call on Tuesday morning, according to a source familiar with the decision.

The family was able to celebrate together, the source said. The governor had donuts for staff and hopped on a wider staff call to say thanks for everyones hard work and emphasize the need to continue their important work delivering for the people of Minnesota.

Walz, a former high school social studies teacher, football coach and veteran of the U.S. Army National Guard, previously represented southern Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2007 to 2019.

He has highlighted his upbringing in a small town in Nebraska to go on offense against Vance, arguing that the GOP vice presidential pick fails to appreciate the small-town truism, Mind your own damn business.

Walz made his career in Mankato, a small Democratic city amid a sea of rural, conservative agricultural communities in southern Minnesota.