Summary
Minnesota Governor and former VP candidate Tim Walz is launching a town hall tour in Republican-held districts where representatives have stopped holding public events.
Starting in Iowa and Nebraska, he plans stops in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Ohio. Walz says he wants to amplify voter concerns about the Trump administration and Republican policies.
He denies using the tour to prepare for a national run, instead framing it as a way to keep Democrats engaged post-election.
His team has received hundreds of invitations from local leaders.
Just get on with it and get your dem pals to start doing so too. Get to work!
Good shit, I like it.
The neo liberals don’t like what sanders is doing so they are trying to do the same thing to offer their tepid right leaning centrism which is what brought us to this point. The billionaire owned democrats are always looking for a way to impose their tepid right leaning centrism and thwart any hint of leftward movement towards economic democracy. Their goal is to maintain this class dictatorship at all costs and allowing full fledged fascism to enter the highest office was preferable to any administration that resembled FDR from Gaining power.
Good job letting perfect get in the way of progress.
Tim Walz is a progressive but because he’s not calling for guillotines out of the gate you’re dismissing his credentials and record.
Stop helping the enemy divide us.
Sanders has been going on rampage and is as passionate as ever. We don’t need someone who “is a nice guy and follows the rules”, the rules are what’s getting broken, we need someone (man or woman) with some fucking BALLS. This is class warfare and we don’t have a ton of time left. Between AI and climate change we need to figure out shit out way sooner rather than later. Waltz seems like a fine guy, but come the fuck on, we don’t need a Midwestern nice dad, we need someone with some fire.
Tim Walz has plenty of fire, people forget really quickly, I guess. The only reason that he wasn’t able to continue being spicy on the campaign trail was because of the clueless fucking DNC.
I love Tim Walz as the anti-Trump. He has lots of experience as well as a great example of a true public servant. He isn’t rich and relies on the decades of public service he complete for his livelihood. As both a veteran and former public educator he can talk about how the cuts to the VA and Education departments are hurting everyone with some personal authority. Minnesota under his leadership got some massive progressive wins and minimized losses in 2024. Most importantly he looks like a Trump voter which apparently is needed for those people. Republicans are going full white male identity politics and he fits the bill.
I would absolutely vote for him for president. I like Minnesota Progressives anyway, and he also possesses that natural trustworthiness that appeals to rurals that are going to be brutalized by MAGA policies over the next few years.
Of course, it only matters if we can have fair, cheat-free elections, or even have elections at all.
I like Minnesota Progressives anyway
I have been a big fan since its less confrontation and quieter than either coastal politics or southern politics. Its boring and effective
I’ll vote any dem in the general but I think Walz is a terrible candidate in the primaries.
We’ve already seen appealing to the conservatives fail in the general miserably, let’s not pick that candidate.
He is definitely not an appealing to conservative candidate except for being white and not super young (He is 60).
But look at what Minnesota did under his governorship was all simple none flashy midwestern progressive values. Free school lunches, trans refuge status, abortions rights into law (as well as a supreme court case), funding for schools and legal weed. He is a progressive just not very flashy about it.
He is literally appealing to the conservatives, as in he is going on a conservative district town hall tour to appeal to them directly.
just because a district is conservative doesn’t mean there are no progressives in it.
and?
He’s also just a really nice guy and from what I can tell a great dad. That on its own is practically all the qualifications I need from a politician. I’d rather have a good-hearted idiot than a black-hearted genius (or idiot… which we currently have in charge).
I think the goofy dad demeanor is truly authentic and is disarming enough to get people to like him. Also I really enjoy his fisher stories where he tells the truth but makes it a little bigger or tuned to the audience. Since truth does not seem to matter anymore why not bend it a little bit
I really wish he had been the candidate in 24. There would have been a good chance of him winning.
Well we can always hope for 2028.
I’m hoping for him and AOC in 2028. Get him in there because he’ll be an easy transition and seems like a great candidate on his own and then set up AOC after him.
AOC would be great as a VP pick
Like the billionaire owned neo liberals would allow that. They lost their shit when sanders challenged them and did everything they could to prevent him from bringing any modicum of economic democracy to the us.
It would actually get progressives out to the polls.
Which is why it’ll never happen.
This is the right move.
If they won’t face their constituents, get someone up there to face them and meet the people where they are to get some change in motion.
As a Minnesotan, I’m worried this will alienate him from the state constituency and we’ll lose him (and then he’ll lose the presidential election cause Minnesota luck)
…. Is anyone dealing with the legitimacy of the last election and the next one? It doesn’t matter what the citizens vote for if their vote isn’t counted….
We don’t have the evidence really but I think the “rigging” has mostly been in the form of disenfranchisement – making it hard for those most likely to vote Democratic. If we can flip the tables and get rural, traditionally Republican, counties to go blue then I don’t think the GOP is prepared to counter that.
He literally admitted a few days ago on video.
AOC’s district leaned way more heavily towards Trump. Either they cheated literally everywhere or the results were valid.
There was a misleading post about “bullet ballots”, but if you looked into the numbers they didn’t check out.
If you look into bullet ballots there are outliers that need to be investigated but weren’t. Not to mention Trump has admitted to manipulating the votes several times, even within the last couple of days. It’s on video.
The numbers in that “bullet ballots” post were lies. They were convincing if true, but they just weren’t true. North Carolina didn’t have 7.1% bullet ballots, for instance, and the swing states weren’t significantly different from their surrounding states, as he claimed they were.
Part of the reason that post sounded so good is that he gave easily verifiable numbers. But those numbers didn’t verify.
It’s really interesting that we look at the same document and have vastly different interpretations of it.
AOC’s district leaned way more heavily towards Trump. Either they cheated literally everywhere or the results were valid.
This logic makes no sense… Those are obviously not the only two possibilities there.
Trump straight up said they rigged it like a day or two ago.
There’s enough questionable and suspect evidence that an investigation is warranted. If nothing else, it will put the question to rest. The American people deserve a through investigation.
An investigation by whom? Certainly not our current federal government.
How much damage to any future elections has this administration already done?
Nope! But, who can? Not the broken government. It’ll be on the citizens to stop waiting for a savior.
“What’s the move Tim?”
“I’m going to pander to the right even harder.”
“Excellent, not only will this definitely shift a bunch of trump supporters to our side, it will rally moderate and left leaning voters to us when they realize how brilliant of a strategy it is to mirror our opposition! 2028 is a lock!”
That’s absolutely not what he’s doing jfc
Could you please explain what he is doing then? Because my impression after reading the article was that Walz is focusing on right wing voters, and not on the other ~70% of Americans. I’m not trying to be divisive. To me this looks like a continuation of the Democrats strategy over the last 10 years of pandering to the center. Which clearly hasn’t worked. So what am I not seeing?
because republicans are cancelling town halls and there are large swaths of republican voters angry with the gop and musk
same reason why bernie is doing it
So here’s the important bit, I know where you’re coming from on this as dems have been courting the right by watering down their policies in an attempt to appeal to them. That’s not what Walz is doing, much like Bernie, he’s preaching the progressive ideals to the right to try and show them how and why it would actually benefit them, along with attempting to dispel republican lies.
Also apologies on the tone of the original comment, I didn’t have enough time to explain and was just irritated.
No worries. I guess my point is that they’re overall such a small percent of the voting bloc. And what percentage of them could he sway? I’d be willing to bet not many at this point in time. Harris didn’t lose because Republicans didn’t vote for her, she lost because everyone else didn’t vote for her.
And nothing was learned I see.
Unpack that one for me, champ.
Is this the nose of the “blue maga” diatribe poking out from behind the corner?
Elaborate?
Not OP, but it appears Democrats are going to take the “high road” and campaign like it’s the 1950s. Again. In person, “addressing voter concerns,” focusing on policy.
This is how you become president: Lie, loudly, frequently, through your teeth on social media. And shill every influencer you can to amplify it, like a pyramid scheme. That’s how you reach people: through their phones, hacking the engagement system, shamelessly. And Dems are going to keep losing until they figure that out or their party is outlawed.
Yeah I don’t want a president like that, and I know that I’m not alone on the left when I say I wouldn’t vote for someone who behaved like that.
That’s the problem. Voters on one side actually care about things like honesty.
On aggregate? Not really. Not if they don’t know about the lies because of their media diet, and the blemishes are paved over.
Problem is this type of machine takes a long time to build up. Democrats don’t have that kind of influencer network working on autopilot 24/7.
Still… I wouldn’t be surprised if we see a “liberal Trump” leaning into the really distasteful parts of the party, and they become really successful.
Sorry if I don’t see “add more disinformation, but make sure that it benefits my guy” as a viable solution. It will just make everything worse.
The solution is to destroy the engagement feedback system: regulate Facebook, and any engagement based social media, like we should have done a long time ago. Or more specifically, deregulate them, and don’t shield them from liability with the law.
But it’s way too late for that.
Anyway, I’m not saying it’s a good solution. But it’s what will naturally arise, just like Trump rose through the Republican party when no oldschool Republicans wanted that. People you know will jump on the bandwagon, and worship liberal Trump. Get ready.
Remember this in 4 years. Tim walz could save the economy, Legalize slavery, take away woman’s rights to vote, make the nation kneel before white Jesus and he wouldn’t get a single Republican voter to switch sides and vote Democrat or independent. It’s a waste of time, energy and money. The only thing he could do is get that magic ® next to his name on the ballot.
