Tim Walz: ‘Hard to Understand’ Why Voters Rejected Democrats’ Vision for AmericaBradley Jaye 8 Nov 2024
Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) acknowledged his confusion that the American people did not accept his and Kamala Harris’s vision for America, after a historic Election Day shellacking in which Donald Trump won the electoral college and the popular vote.
In a post-election loss speech Walz touted as offering a plan for “our path forward,” the governor called to bring down the temperature while taking multiple shots at Trump.
“It’s hard to understand why so many of our fellow citizens, people that we have fought so long and hard for, wound up choosing the other path,” Walz pondered aloud. “It’s hard to reckon with what that path looks like over the next four years.”
Walz professed to what voters cared about despite the American people overwhelmingly choosing Trump’s plan to deliver on those issues.
“What struck me everywhere I went without exception, people really wanted the same basic things” he said, citing “meaningful work, safe neighborhoods, good schools, affordable quality health care” as well as “security.”
Walz expressed little magnanimity towards Trump, touting his own resumé in Minnesota,even as Trump made major gains in the blue state. He claimed he delivered for the people on those issues “by standing up for our shared values and rejecting hatred and bigotry,” throwing further shade at Trump by proudly saying he “fought for everyone’s right to participate fully in our democracy” and “refused to scapegoat immigrants in this state.”
He discussed “our path forward,” while fear mongering on the agenda of the Trump administration.
“I know there’s a lot of folks that are worried about the next four years and what they’re going to look like,” he said. “I’m one of them. The agenda we heard from the other side in this campaign was very different from the one we know is right for our state and our country.”
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