‘I Didn’t Get It Done’: A Reflective Tim Walz Wants to Make Good

The New York Times ^ | June 1, 2025, 5:01 a.m. ET | Reid J. Epstein, Katie Glueck

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Last year’s Democratic vice-presidential nominee has thrown himself into a robust atonement-and-explanation tour, though aides insist there is no grand strategy.

Nearly seven months since his ticket lost the 2024 presidential election, Tim Walz is trying all at once to make amends for everything he thinks went wrong.

He is going to Republican areas where Democrats lost ground. He is sitting for countless interviews after former Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign limited his media exposure. And as his party engages in collective finger-pointing, he is among the few Democrats admitting that they themselves made mistakes.

“I know my job and I didn’t get it done,” Mr. Walz, the governor of Minnesota, said last week on a podcast hosted by former Senator Jon Tester, the Montana Democrat.

The Tim Walz atonement-and-explanation tour had its biggest audiences to date on Saturday, when he delivered speeches to Democratic Party conventions in South Carolina and California.

“This dude’s the last guy I want to tell us about ‘we lost our way.’ You’re the guy who lost,” Mr. Walz said to the crowd in Columbia, S.C., on Saturday morning, imagining what listeners might be thinking. But, he added, “none of us can afford to shy away right now from asking the hard questions and doing the things we need to do to fix it so that we win elections.”

His approach stands in stark contrast with how his running mate has dealt with their loss. Ms. Harris gave a paid speech in Australia, appeared at the Met Gala in New York (though she skipped the red carpet) and spoke for barely more than 15 minutes to a political group in San Francisco. Even as she weighs a run for governor of California, it was Mr. Walz who was the main attraction at that state’s Democratic...

[j.havenfarm]

Wow. He was the headliner for the state party convention. Talk about having a thin bench

[crusty old prospector]

The Tim Walz atonement-and-explanation tour

Give me a break.

[Az Joe]

Candidate of the Betas

[No name given]

Tampon Timmy is such a wuss.

[plain talk]

No Tim. Most people don't care much about you one way or the other. She lost.

[HYPOCRACY]

He should ask himself why he thinks China’s system is so much better than the US. Even as China’s economy implodes this clown is still a commie.

[No name given]

Can you imagine if this bozo was our Vice President instead of J.D Vance?!

[No name given]

And deservedly so.

[No name given]

And a traitor.

[HYPOCRACY]

Correct.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“...none of us can afford to shy away right now from asking the hard questions and doing the things we need to do to fix it so that we win elections.”

They need to go eat some carburetors for breakfast. That’ll show us they are real men.

As for “asking the hard questions,” you can start with why do you hate America so? Why do you pander to every splinter weird minority and ignore the needs of REAL America. Why do you want 30 or 40 million illegals in the country bleeding us dry? Why do you like men beating up women on the field of sport? Why do you like men exposing their genitals to young girls? Why do you support the judiciary usurping the executive? Why do you embrace socialism and communism? Why do Democrats pick the worst possible people to run for office?

I doubt they will ask any of those hard questions.

[StAnDeliver]

Porky is a hoot. He and his motard progeny. A gift that never stops giving...

[NonValueAdded]

I guess their gaydar was not working that day ... or maybe it was and that’s what they think they need.

[sauropod]

Shut up, Tim. Just shut up.

[DAC21]

This idiot has zero self awareness. Minnesota is the original outlier of a State. I mean those morons voted for Carter in 1980. No other State did. I doubt he could win anything in any of the liberal States, he is just a swarmy low IQ clown.

Can you imagine, Tim Waltz was the weak link on the Rats ticket in Nov. Kamala must feel giddy for 2028.

[OakOak]

He put Tampons first.

His wife and crazy daughter never smelled anything sweeter than Minneapolis burning and people dying.

No wonder Red China is his ideal.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

We need the video of the black guy asking the question,Timmy, why are you gay?

[hanamizu]

Can you imagine if this bozo was our Vice President instead of J.D Vance?!

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Vice President is not really important. Much worse would be the bozoetjte being POTUS instead of Trump.

[Veto!]

He should spend the rest of his life shouting political statements while riding a Merry Go Round.

Going around in circles at exactly his mental speed.