Gus Walz is the Governor’s youngest child with wife Gwen.
And just like with Hope, the parents have offered glimpses into his everyday life, including photos of him passing his driver’s license test, going to school and celebrating the holidays with his family.
Gus has also supported his father throughout his political career. In fact, Walz promised to get Gus a puppy if he was elected governor of Minnesota—and is fulfilling that promise in 2019 with a dog named Scout (The family also has a cat named Evening.)
And at the 2024 Democratic National Convention, Gus was brought to tears as he cheered on his father.
“I don’t know as a father that I could have ever imagined that,” Walz shared CNN. “I’m grateful for so many reasons to be on this ticket, but that moment — to understand what was really important, to make my son feel a sense of pride in me for trying to do the right thing. You try and protect your kids. It brings notoriety and stuff, but it was just such an emotional moment that I’m grateful I got to experience, and I’m so proud of him.”
He and his wife have also talked about Gus being neurodivergent.
“When he became a teenager, we learned that Gus has a non-verbal learning disability in addition to an anxiety disorder and ADHD,” they told People in August 2024, “conditions that millions of Americans also have.”
They later added, “It took time, but what became so immediately clear to us was that Gus’s condition isn’t a setback—it’s his secret power.”
