Summary
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, Kamala Harris’ 2024 running mate, has suggested he may run for president in 2028.
Reflecting on the Democrats’ loss to Donald Trump and JD Vance, he admitted: “A large number of people did not believe we were fighting for them in the last election – and that’s the big disconnect.”
Walz said his life experience, rather than ambition, would guide his decision.
Though his VP campaign was marred by gaffes, he remains open to running if he feels prepared.
Tim Walz unleashed would have won this.
He was hamstrug by Harris. He’s likely the dem’s best choice for 2028.
So of course they’ll run Newsome or Shapiro or Hillary Clinton again because they’re a bunch of idiots.
Oh, so we’re cool with losing again? He’s not going to swing any demographic group - it’s gonna be the same result.
Can you please just fucking not
We need someone who is actually going to make some changes, not another return to a milque toast centre right 70 year old white dude
its march 4th. i say we stop voting for seniors over the retirement age.
When will the DNC pull their heads out of their asses? If they won’t put forth any serious candidates, why bother?
Please, do FUCKING NOT.
His debate performance was poor against Vance. We don’t need a kindly father-figure running against Republicans, we need an attack dog that knows police cold, who can articulate that tax cuts cost more in tax revenues than we make up in added jobs, economic growth, etc., someone that’s going to actively piss-off billionaires and then not kiss their asses once they have power… We need a leftist populist, someone that will get people fired up.
Walz is not that guy.
One lesson that I’ve seen in politics over and over again is Dems running the same candidate in a rematch, and the rematch always goes worse than the original election.
We could do (and have done) a lot worse. My only concern is whether or not he has the backbone to refuse to be steered to the right, the way Kamala was after the convention. His Midwestern politeness definitely didn’t serve him well in the debate.
I get a jimmy carter vibe from him. Hopefully I am wrong.
I hope you’re right, at least to a point. Carter was following up the absolute disaster that was the Nixon administration by removing significant amounts of power from the executive, codifying norms that Nixon had flouted, and showing a conciliatory, less-combative presence on the world stage within a fairly flammable geopolitical context. All of that is exactly, to the letter, what we need from the 48th president.
Now, sure, Carter lost to Reagan. But I get the feeling that Walz wouldn’t suffer such a fool.
Like Harris was steered.
The DNC consultancy class are almost certainly to blame for every failure they’ve had since 2016. Or sooner, I’m just stopping there out of convenience.
I might call that steering. I don’t think Harris really believes in anything.
Probably a mistake.
I guess I’m the only one against this idea. I’m not keen on candidates that have already lost running again. Get someone else up there to try.
Kamala as VP?
Loser says what?
Nobody associated with the Harris-Walz campaign should have anything the fuck to do with 2028 presidential campaigns. They should all be too embarrassed to ever show their faces again.
AOC should be the candidate. Nobody to the right of AOC should even fucking bother with the primary, even if that describes 95% of the Democratic Party.
So are we going to vote for the lesser evil genocide supporter even in 2028
Anyone who failed to beat Trump has to go away. No exceptions.
He’s got some things going for him. Male. Presumably heterosexual. Caucasian. Old (but perhaps not quite old enough). I say go for it.
Dude, just say “not AOC.”
I hate this persistent belief that much of America is still too racist and sexist to accept a black or woman president. I hate it, even if it may be true.
Unfortunately we see the country as better than it really is, or at least, I DID. After the election I saw how many people wanted to kick people out of the country because they believe immigrants are bad. Then they seem to have no problem with a South African immigrant pulling the strings. Immigrants weren’t the problem with them, but the skin color. We did it before we became a country in the 1600s, and we’ll continue doing it, because we love believing that our skin color makes us superior.
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kamala isn’t right wing, at best she’s a centrist, realistically a left leaning lib.
She’s rainbow republican
rainbow republican is wild considering she doesn’t want to engage in any spending cuts, and the only thing that she supported, that aligns with the republican base was the israel palestine issue.
She’s pro-capitalism which makes her right wing. But she’s not even a leftist in colloquial US terms, she’s very pro police and anti medicare for all.
