Tim Walz, Democratic candidate for vice president and Bruce Springsteen fan

“He’s wearing a Springsteen tour shirt. Is Tim Walz perfect?” X user Daniel Pereira asked on the social media site, almost reading our collective minds on Tuesday, shortly after Kamala Harris named the Minnesota governor as her running mate.

The video Pereira refers to, which has gained social media prominence since the announcement, shows Walz at the 2023 Minnesota State Fair with his daughter, Hope. “Every year, as a family, we do something old and something new,” says Walz, wearing a navy blue T-shirt with the word Springsteen on it. Later when the camera zooms out on the father-daughter duo yelling on the slingshot ride (their “something new” that year), we see the Boss’ face in black and white.

Back in March 2023, as Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band were headed to play at St. Paul, Minn.’ s Xcel Energy Center, Walz declared March 5 to be Springsteen Day in the state.

“Springsteen’s concert is a celebration of the best of Minnesota, with its proud history, diverse communities, and rich cultural heritage … Springsteen’s music is a source of inspiration for many people in Minnesota, reminding us of the values that we hold dear, including kindness, compassion, and fairness,” the proclamation read.

Now that’s something Philadelphians can get behind. The Boss is back at Citizens Bank Park on Aug. 21 and Aug. 23, makeup dates for two shows in August 2023 that were canceled after he fell ill from peptic ulcer syndrome.

Springsteen’s seventh studio album, Born in the U.S.A., turned 40 on June 4. In 1984, Springsteen kicked off the first leg of his “Born in the U.S.A.” tour with a three-night run at the St. Paul Civic Center, now called the Xcel Energy Center. It was inside the Civic Center that Brian De Palma filmed the “Dancing in the Dark” video with a then-20-year-old Courteney Cox playing a fan Springsteen pulls onto the stage. The tour went on to mount 156 shows.

In 2022, as Springsteen faced backlash from fans for Ticketmaster price-gouging, with tickets going for as much as $5,000 a pop, Walz took to X (then called Twitter) to crowdsource a ticket. “Anyone manage to get an extra Bruce Springsteen ticket today? Asking for a friend,” he tweeted.

While there are several important political commonalities between Harris and Walz, good taste in music is definitely one of them. We don’t quite know what VP Harris’ take on Springsteen is, but the Harris-Walz ticket is definitely a couple of BeyHivers. Harris is using “Freedom” from Beyoncé’s 2016 album, Lemonade, as her campaign theme song, and Walz declared July 20 as Beyoncé Day in Minnesota in 2023.