Walz blames Harris campaign strategy to avoid media for election loss
Months after a disastrous election cycle for Democrats and as the party is still searching for a new message to try and sway voters, Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) is coming to grips with the Harris-Walz campaign's failures, lamenting how cautious they were in engaging with the media and urging a grassroots approach in the future.
In an interview with Politico, Walz suggested that while the Harris campaign's strategy of largely shying away from the media may have been because of how little time they had after Joe Biden's withdrawal from the race fourth months before the election, they "should have just rolled the dice and done the town halls."
"We shouldn’t have been playing this thing so safe,” he said, adding, “I think we probably should have just rolled the dice and done the town halls, where [voters] may say, ‘You’re full of s***, I don’t believe in you.’ I think there could have been more of that."
The Minnesota governor also said that while the Democratic Party is more "cautious" in how they engage with the press, they should have abandoned this approach since "I don’t think we were ever ahead."
"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," Walz said.
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