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Tim Walz has some sharp critiques of the Dem 2024 campaign
Politico ^ | Elena Schneider | Elena Schneider

Posted on 03/09/2025 10:08:21 AM PDT by Salman

HELENA, Montana — Tim Walz thinks he and Kamala Harris played it too safe last year.

He thinks they should have held more town halls. He thinks they didn’t have time to get their feet under them. And he thinks Democrats should have taken more risks and gone to more places.

“We shouldn’t have been playing this thing so safe,” the Minnesota governor said in an interview with POLITICO before speaking to nearly 1,000 Democrats here at the Helena fairgrounds last weekend.

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His prescription for Democrats now and in the midterms, he said, is that Democrats “should be everywhere.” Recently, he’s appeared on primarily friendly outlets, like MSNBC and the South by Southwest stage on Saturday. He’ll be featured on California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s new podcast, where his interview has yet to air, and he recorded a podcast with The New Yorker’s David Remnick. But his post on X promising to show up at town halls in GOP districts, a Walz aide said, has generated a big response — hundreds of messages and phone calls from county party chairs and activists, hoping to bring him to town.

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(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: democrats; governorchickenhawk; politico; politicopostedinnews; pollutico; tampontim; walz
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Well it's something that he admits they might have been wrong about something, but still totally does not get it.
1 posted on 03/09/2025 10:08:21 AM PDT by Salman
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He’ll never admit the obvious reasons they lost.


2 posted on 03/09/2025 10:12:57 AM PDT by Starboard
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3 posted on 03/09/2025 10:14:09 AM PDT by simpson96
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Did he include their picking a CCP-approved clown for VP?


4 posted on 03/09/2025 10:14:27 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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Really, the guy is a total joke. HE’S the one that put the final nail in the Harris campaign coffin.


5 posted on 03/09/2025 10:16:34 AM PDT by traderrob6
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Yes, by all means keep this guy at the top of the democrat ticket. He just oozes appeal.


6 posted on 03/09/2025 10:17:07 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (The Democrat breadlines will be gluten-free. )
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He believes they should have unfurled the red banners and sung The Internationale, stormed out and overthrown the decadent capitalists.
7 posted on 03/09/2025 10:17:12 AM PDT by fso301
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Thanks to awalz, I’ll never again have to wonder how stupid people can get.


8 posted on 03/09/2025 10:17:34 AM PDT by chief lee runamok ( Le Flâneur @Large)
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To: simpson96

With “friends” like that....


9 posted on 03/09/2025 10:18:03 AM PDT by lee martell
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"... totally does not get it..."

Right. He's talking as if he was campaigning with a Presidential "nominee" who was legitimately the choice of Democrats across the country.

He's talking AS IF the 'nominee' he ran with actually has a brain, could properly engage voters and field questions in person and in real time ... like a successfully vetted, career politician with a demonstrated record of accomplishments AND a command of the issues!!

Harris wasn't going anywhere NEAR a living breathing voter who would have fundamental questions and who deserved decipherable, logical answers

10 posted on 03/09/2025 10:18:27 AM PDT by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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The more people heard them, the less they liked them.


11 posted on 03/09/2025 10:18:29 AM PDT by alternatives?
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“We, as a party, are more cautious” in engaging the media, both mainstream and non-traditional, Walz said. And during the 2024 campaign, he said, “in football parlance, we were in a prevent defense to not lose when we never had anything to lose because I don’t think we were ever ahead.”

Left unsaid by the VALOR THEIF Walz was that their record is and was indefensible, and that avoiding any of a hundred embarrassing questions (while scripting the narratives in the news) was their only choice.

Also, Ms. Harris' demeanor suggested inability to respond to most any question due to either lack of understanding and qualification or incapacity of some sort.

12 posted on 03/09/2025 10:18:41 AM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never...in nothing, great or small...Winston ChurchIill)
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To: Starboard

Anyone would have been a better pick than Walz ANYONE even AOC.


13 posted on 03/09/2025 10:20:08 AM PDT by cnsmom
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That’s right, Tim.
Get out there more, looking and sounding like the goofball you are. That’s the ticket!


14 posted on 03/09/2025 10:20:39 AM PDT by j.havenfarm (24 years on Free Republic, 12/10/24! More than 10,500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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Don’t worry, Mr. Walz. The DNC recently elected David Hogg as vice-chairman. That weirdo will take your concerns to heart, and make everything right.

Or maybe not.


15 posted on 03/09/2025 10:20:59 AM PDT by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again.)
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“Ich bin einen Knucklehead!”


16 posted on 03/09/2025 10:21:39 AM PDT by lee martell
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Had they played it less safe, they would have lost by more and given Trump a bigger mandate.


17 posted on 03/09/2025 10:21:47 AM PDT by Sertorius (A hayseed with no Greek and dam^ proud of it)
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“Get out there more, looking and sounding like the goofball you are.”

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He’s a self-admitted “knucklehead”.


18 posted on 03/09/2025 10:24:01 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: lee martell

In proper German, “Ich bin ein Dummkopf.”


19 posted on 03/09/2025 10:24:11 AM PDT by Publius
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To: Sertorius

Kaboom!!! You nailed it.


20 posted on 03/09/2025 10:24:47 AM PDT by Starboard
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