Walz refuses to quit after dropping re-election bid amid Minnesota fraud firestorm: 'Over my dead body'

One day after announcing he was scrapping his re-election bid, Democratic Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota vocally pushed back against calls by Republican state lawmakers to resign amid the state's sweeping fraud scandal.

"I'm not going anywhere. And you can make all your requests for me to resign. Over my dead body will that happen," Walz told reporters as he answered questions for the first time since his stunning re-election announcement.

The embattled governor ended his bid for an unprecedented...