Former vice-presidential candidate claims pair should have held more in-person events around the US

Summary

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has criticized the Harris-Walz 2024 presidential campaign for playing it too “safe,” saying they should have held more in-person events and town halls.

In a Politico interview, Walz—known for labeling Trump and Vance as “weird”—blamed their cautious approach partly on the abbreviated 107-day campaign timeline after Harris became the nominee in August.

Using football terminology, he said Democrats were in a “prevent defense” when “we never had anything to lose, because I don’t think we were ever ahead.”

While acknowledging his share of responsibility for the loss, Walz is returning to the national spotlight and didn’t rule out a 2028 presidential run, saying, “I’m not saying no.”

  • @_stranger_
    2•16 hours ago

    The first link is about a pro Israel PAC spending money against the Dems, so I’m not sure how relevant that is?

    Of the others, the newest article is from 2019.

    This is pretty tame compared to what their opposing party does, I’m not sure this is supporting your argument to the extent you want. Even Watergate is tame compared to most of the shit republicans have pulled since Obama won. I suppose you could cherry pick metrics, but honestly none of this is even bad enough to be compared to what republicans have done this week. They’re not saints, sure, but if your waiting to vote for a saint you might want to get a job as a Cardinal.

    Your second link talks about an anti-trump strategy from the Clinton campaign that literally tried to highlight how stupid and vulgar he was, which only backfired because that’s what his supporters like about him

    The third link is attempting to conflate some random hoax videos with the rumors of a “kompromat” pee tape putin supposedly had/has an trump, which doesn’t really have much to do with the Dems that I can tell.

    The fourth link is about two Hillary supporters in 2016 admitting they spread the birther rumor, which again has what to do with the Dem party?

    Yeah, of all of these, I guess the Clinton one is relevant, and yeah, everyone has long since agreed that was a terrible strategy, but I’m not sure how any of this is a smoking gun that, what, Dems are as bad as Republicans? I’m not really sure what point you’re trying to make.

    • @UnderpantsWeevilEnglish
      1•4 hours ago

      The first link is about a pro Israel PAC spending money against the Dems

      A Dem aligned group, in a Dem primary, to support AIPAC friendly candidates by running smears on progressive incumbents

      an anti-trump strategy from the Clinton campaign that literally tried to highlight how stupid and vulgar he was

      She used campaign resources to promote Trump during the GOP primary

      attempting to conflate some random hoax videos

      Propagated by Dem proxies to promote a liberally endorsed false claim

      two Hillary supporters in 2016 admitting they spread the birther rumor

      Two campaign staffers