Gov. Tim Walz faces a new era of divided government in Minnesota when he returns from the presidential campaign trail, now that Republicans appear to have broken the Democratic trifecta that helped put him on Kamala Harris’ radar.

The House appears headed for a rare evenly split chamber​ with Republicans and Democrats both having 67 seats, according to unofficial results from the secretary of state's office.

Instead of heading to the nation's capital, the Minnesota governor will go home to St. Paul, where he still has a job to do for another two years in his second term and where his backyard's political landscape appears to be tilting a slight bit toward Republicans.