Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, picked this week by Vice President Kamala Harris to serve as her running mate, voted in 2009 against a measure that would have barred the federal government from transferring inmates at the Guantánamo Bay prison facility – and argued that facilities in the U.S. could handle the alleged terrorists being transferred.
Walz voted against a measure to block the transfer of detainees from the facility, sometimes referred to as “Gitmo,” near Cuba to the Un
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