Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz appeared poised to win Minnesota's electoral votes on Tuesday, but there was little reason to celebrate as the path to a statewide victory appeared narrow.

Neither Harris-Walz nor former President Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, spent much time campaigning in the state. Republicans had promised to put Minnesota in the red for the first time since 1972, but polls consistently showed Harris-Walz with a narrow but steady lead.

Late Tuesday evening, the results looked far less promising for Democrats.

If elected, Harris would be the first female president and Walz would be the third Minnesotan elected to the vice presidential office.

Harris and Walz ran a condensed campaign when she lured him to the ticket in early August, shortly after President Joe Biden's resignation and just before the start of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

Walz wanted to join Minnesota's favorite sons, the late Vice Presidents Walter Mondale and Hubert Humphrey, who worked with former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Lyndon Johnson, respectively.

At Tuesday's vote in north Minneapolis, 39-year-old Joseph Thomas said he chose Harris, citing equality, housing assistance and taxes as the issues he cares about most. He also liked that Harris could become the first female president: “That was a big deal, too,” he said.

At the Martin Luther King Recreation Center in St. Paul, about an hour before the polls closed, Kate Kulzer walked her dog, a Catahoula leopard hound named Rhubarb, and took her fiancé to vote. Kulzer had voted for Harris earlier in the day — but she viewed it as a vote against Trump.