Minnesota Governor Tim Walz marveled in a post-election interview that middle-class Americans struggling with economic problems chose billionaire Donald Trump over him and Vice President Kamala Harris, a team he labeled a ticket by comparison for the middle class.
Walz, Harris’ running mate, took a seat interview with Minnesota Public Radio on Thursday, where he addressed what he thought went wrong during the Democratic presidential campaign. He concluded that there must have been a break in the Harris campaign’s message to middle-class voters if they voted for a wealthy candidate like Trump.
“I thought it was a real flex when the Wall Street Journal pointed out that I might be the least wealthy person to ever run for vice president,” Walz told MPR News.
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Minnesota Governor Tim Walz said he was surprised by Democrats’ loss to President-elect Donald Trump. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
“How on earth did we lose to a billionaire or a venture capitalist while arguing the case for a national lawyer and a high school teacher?” he asked later in the interview, contrasting his ticket with Trump’s.
Walz made it clear that he thought his more modest economic status should have appealed to voters, and he seemed surprised that it didn’t.
“And I thought people would say, ‘Well, this guy knows where we’re coming from. He’s had to pay his bills and still does,'” he said, referring to himself.
Earlier in the discussion, Walz said, “And this is the one that keeps me up at night, because I’ve spent my entire career focused on the middle class… And it seemed like a lot of good ideas were coming from the Democrats.”
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“I still believe that,” he continued, “but apparently the majority of Americans didn’t do that in this election. They chose to with a billionairewho talks about not paying overtime, who has a long history of not paying his employees, someone who wants to take away the ACA.”
Seeing this, Walz concluded that this was happening because his party was not communicating their appeal to the middle class well enough.
“So I come back to the conclusion: We haven’t done a good enough job – we as the Democratic Party and we as a ticket – haven’t done a good enough job of showing that we understand where they’re coming from. the governor said.
He added: “And I feel like one of my roles is – going forward this is – figuring out a way to convey to the public, the American public, that the Democratic Party is really focused on things what they care about. “
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Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is comforted by Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff as Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential candidate, delivers election remarks at Howard University in Washington on November 6, 2024. (REUTERS/Mike Blake)
In an interview with the local Minnesota outlet KSTP-TV Last week, the governor admitted he was surprised his ticket lost the 2024 election.
“It felt like at the rallies, at the things I went to, the stores I went to, the momentum was going our way, and obviously it wasn’t at the end,” Walz said. “So yeah, I was a little surprised. I thought we had a positive message and I thought the country was ready for that.”
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