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He thinks they should have held more town halls. He thinks they didn’t have time to get their feet under them. And he thinks Democrats should have taken more risks and gone to more places.
In his assessment, “I think we probably should have just rolled the dice and done the town halls, where [voters] may say, ‘you’re full of shyt, I don’t believe in you,’” Walz continued. “I think there could have been more of that.”

“We, as a party, are more cautious” in engaging the media, both mainstream and non-traditional, Walz said. And during the 2024 campaign, he said, “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.”

He was underutilized and that was the symptom of the larger campaign of decision paralysis and decision logjam at the top,” said one former senior Harris aide.


In Montana, where he addressed a crowd of Democrats at a state party dinner, Walz told them that there is “no charismatic leader who is coming to save us.”

Instead, he argued — speaking from a few pages of notes and ad-libbing much of his remarks, dropping the teleprompter that he frequently used on the presidential campaign trail — “our way back out of the wilderness is sitting at each and every one of these tables,” calling out the grassroots energy that has burbled up in town halls in recent weeks as the answer to Democrats’ malaise.
“Could he have changed a percent in Wisconsin? Maybe. We still lose even if we win Wisconsin.”

Even so, this aide added, Walz got put “in a box,” and “we didn’t use him the way we could’ve.”
A third former Harris staffer also echoed that Walz “wasn’t utilized the way he should’ve been,” and he “should’ve been used more like [then-Sen. JD] Vance was, who was everywhere all the time.”



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this is all negated by the fact that Walz had his chance. he was on the debate stage with Vance, 1 on 1, and Vance had him back on his heels the whole time. even when it came to january 6th :hhh:

Walz is soft. he's a non-factor going forward
Debates don't mean anything if they did trump would have never been president. Talking to the american people does.
 

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Still trying to figure out how pro-Israel, pro-police, pro-border wall Kamala Harris was 'radical left.' :unimpressed:

well, just look at her. see her radical gang pose :picard:

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I think Walz should run. He should use this time in the run up to the midterms to do exactly this (which is what Bernie is doing). Travel across the country and highlight all these cuts and the tax cuts.


I agree he understand what needs to be done
 

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Walz was dope, he resonated with people when he talked that shyt. Yeah, the debate was weird but he knew how to talk to regular people.
He also understand what regular people want, which is populist ideas, they don't care about this culture war shyt cac mamba keep crying over. Trump has won twice running on faux economic populism, reaching out to factor workers in rust belt by rightfully blaming nafta and blaming illegals due to economic conditions.
 

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i like gallego, but he needs to stay in AZ and shore up that senate seat for a while. just like warnock and fetterman

those guys should be thinking 2030s
There will never be a better time to take the party into a younger direction when the gop holds the senate edge regardless of what we do.
 

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He also understand what regular people want, which is populist ideas, they don't care about this culture war shyt cac mamba keep crying over. Trump has won twice running on faux economic populism, reaching out to factor workers in rust belt by rightfully blaming nafta and blaming illegals due to economic conditions.
They called him tampon Tim and said he sounds gay.

Walz is done.
 
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