Summary
Minnesota Governor and former VP candidate Tim Walz is launching a town hall tour in Republican-held districts where representatives have stopped holding public events.
Starting in Iowa and Nebraska, he plans stops in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Ohio. Walz says he wants to amplify voter concerns about the Trump administration and Republican policies.
He denies using the tour to prepare for a national run, instead framing it as a way to keep Democrats engaged post-election.
His team has received hundreds of invitations from local leaders.
I love Tim Walz as the anti-Trump. He has lots of experience as well as a great example of a true public servant. He isn’t rich and relies on the decades of public service he complete for his livelihood. As both a veteran and former public educator he can talk about how the cuts to the VA and Education departments are hurting everyone with some personal authority. Minnesota under his leadership got some massive progressive wins and minimized losses in 2024. Most importantly he looks like a Trump voter which apparently is needed for those people. Republicans are going full white male identity politics and he fits the bill.
I really wish he had been the candidate in 24. There would have been a good chance of him winning.
Well we can always hope for 2028.
I’m hoping for him and AOC in 2028. Get him in there because he’ll be an easy transition and seems like a great candidate on his own and then set up AOC after him.
AOC would be great as a VP pick
It would actually get progressives out to the polls.
Which is why it’ll never happen.
Like the billionaire owned neo liberals would allow that. They lost their shit when sanders challenged them and did everything they could to prevent him from bringing any modicum of economic democracy to the us.
He’s also just a really nice guy and from what I can tell a great dad. That on its own is practically all the qualifications I need from a politician. I’d rather have a good-hearted idiot than a black-hearted genius (or idiot… which we currently have in charge).
I think the goofy dad demeanor is truly authentic and is disarming enough to get people to like him. Also I really enjoy his fisher stories where he tells the truth but makes it a little bigger or tuned to the audience. Since truth does not seem to matter anymore why not bend it a little bit
Fun fact: on Halloween his family gives out full sized candy bars…
That’s more reason to vote for him than anything any candidate since I turned 18 has offered
I would absolutely vote for him for president. I like Minnesota Progressives anyway, and he also possesses that natural trustworthiness that appeals to rurals that are going to be brutalized by MAGA policies over the next few years.
Of course, it only matters if we can have fair, cheat-free elections, or even have elections at all.
I have been a big fan since its less confrontation and quieter than either coastal politics or southern politics. Its boring and effective
I’ll vote any dem in the general but I think Walz is a terrible candidate in the primaries.
We’ve already seen appealing to the conservatives fail in the general miserably, let’s not pick that candidate.
He is definitely not an appealing to conservative candidate except for being white and not super young (He is 60).
But look at what Minnesota did under his governorship was all simple none flashy midwestern progressive values. Free school lunches, trans refuge status, abortions rights into law (as well as a supreme court case), funding for schools and legal weed. He is a progressive just not very flashy about it.
He is literally appealing to the conservatives, as in he is going on a conservative district town hall tour to appeal to them directly.
He’s trying to flip voters that are being ignored by their republican representatives and doing it very visibly to show he is listening to voters. It’s called strategy. He has his prpgressive bona fides from his record as governor. Unless you think free school lunch, abortion rights, and trans refuge status aren’t progressive achievements.
Yes and its great news for local elections, state, and congressional. It meant fuck all when they tried it in the presidential election, not a viable strategy for the next one, either.
just because a district is conservative doesn’t mean there are no progressives in it.
and?