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.
No democrats will win until they kick out all and made sure no corporate bribe.
Oh yes, please, older people, maybe I’ll have my late great grandma run a campaign for the democrats from her grave.
Edit: not that I prefer a republican after trump. I’m certainly not far right. But I’m tired of seeing running leaders being this old. Can you americans get AOC to run for once?
I wouldn’t mind a big field of (good) Democratic candidates. Sanders, AOC, Crockett, Walz, they can all campaign. They can mutually have have their rivals as VP picks, and Sanders can have a public contract where the VP can remove him from office, if his age makes him mentally unfit for office.
What I would like to see, is a dynasty of (genuinely) progressive candidates of at least 24+ years. Sanders/Jasmine --> Jasmine/AOC --> AOC/???.
The Geronocrats and Republicans had the opportunity to show their worth, and have been found wanting. It is time for some new blood that truly cares about the wellbeing of Americans and the globe.
Walz is a completely valid candidate. The only thing that held up Harris was that she was a black woman. I’m confident that any reasonable white man would have beat Trump, and that’s unfortunate, but it’s the reality of the American electorate
Walz’s self-awareness is refreshing, but his track record doesn’t inspire national confidence. Lacks deeper analysis of whether his candidacy would be viable given his role in the 2024 defeat.
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I’d argue that it wasn’t so much that the campaign failed but the DNC did by failing to recognize the importance of the election and worrying too much about not turning off Republicans. The reality of Tim Walz is he’s not going to be subject to the racism and misogyny Harris was. Maybe that’s enough.
Maybe that’s enough.
Absolutely not. I’m sure you’ve already seen a hundred people arguing this already so I won’t do so, but just… No. This mentality will only lead to disaster.
Yeah they should obviously run Opprah
Bold of him to assume there will be elections in 2028.
I’d vote for him, given that we’re still allowed to vote.
I’ll vote for him in the generals, I will beg other people to vote for him and I will spread the word on his policies, but I’d never vote for him in a million years in a primary. He’s just a republican in a blue tie on certain issues like Palestine.
Walz Buttigieg or the other way around.
Hopefully this time they don’t muzzle him. Tim’s a great example of dem policies working,
Hopefully.
Walz seemed awesome in the debate. Vance and Walz in general were so much more productive than the other two.
So are we going to vote for the lesser evil genocide supporter even in 2028
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.
I don’t why after Biden was VP everyone wants to pretend VP is a stepping stone to presidency…
All it does is hang the prior candidate around their neck like an albatross. And since Kamala couldn’t stop talking about how she’d be Biden 2.0, it’s gonna be really hard for Walz to say he’s different than those two.
Voters don’t want “more of the same”. And as soon as Walz announced his VP run, he became “more of the same”.
It’s going to be really hard to distance himself from all the conservative policies that made Kamala and Biden so unpopular with Dem voters.
Lots of former Vice Presidents become Presidents later on. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Martin Van Buren, Teddy Roosevelt won reelection, Richard Nixon, HW Bush, and Biden, all became presidents in their own right.
So we have Biden, sandwiches between the worst president ever because the primary was a force and we literally had zero options…
Then 37 years earlier when HW replaced Reagan and carried his torch…
So the two examples are the VPs of two of the most charismatic president, and they were both attached to them because their own complete lack of ability to win primaries precluded them from making it to the general?
Like, I’m pretty sure you won’t realize you’re making my point…
But c’mon man, you really can’t see that VP is where presidential ambition goes to die and the only thing that changes it is for their president to have been insanely popular with their own voting base?
You don’t even have a little tingle that you’re wrong here?
No doubts that maybe the other person knew what they were talking about?
Wish the current administration, they definitely want more of the same dumbfuckery.
Give me AOC or Bernie.
