How’d that work out?
Minnesota governor and failed vice presidential candidate Tim Walz seems to be trying to keep his name out there for a potential presidential run in 2028, making the media rounds after serving as the running mate on the disastrous Kamala Harris campaign in 2024.
Walz was selected at least in part to help Harris appeal to men, a voting bloc that the then-vice president was struggling to win over. He was a former assistant high school football coach, something that he frequently brought up on the campaign trail, and was apparently supposed to represent the kind of strong masculine figure that would help the Harris campaign break through with male voters.
For some reason though, it didn’t work.
Walz was criticized for his support of a bill in his home state of Minnesota that mandated tampons be placed in men’s school restrooms, earning him the nickname “Tampon Tim,” and he never really helped Democrats project that “masculine” image that they needed to overcome their problems with men.
As a result, the Trump campaign won in the male demographic by 12 points, and even won the young male vote, which has typically skewed more liberal. He won males age 45-64 by a whopping 20%, and among males 65 and older, a demographic that Democrats hoped to win by warning senior citizens that Trump was a threat to social security, he still had a 13-point advantage in the final election results.
Just a total bloodbath with men.
But among white voters in general, Harris and Walz didn’t fare any better. 57% of all white voters chose Trump over Harris, including 60% of white men and 53% of white women.
So what exactly did Walz bring to the table?
Well, if you ask him, he was brought on to help the campaign talk to white dudes – although it turned out to be a terrible idea.
During a stop at Harvard University on his “listening tour,” Walz revealed why he thought Harris chose him for vice president:
“I was on the ticket, quite honestly, because I could code talk to white guys watching football, fixing their truck, doing that, that I could put them at ease. I was the permission structure to say, ‘Look, you can do this and vote for this.’ And you look across those swing states, with the exception of Minnesota, we didn’t get enough of those votes.”
Just so out of touch. They really thought that of all the possible white dudes they could put on the ticket, that Tim Walz was their best shot?
It’s no wonder they lost…
Of course this isn’t the only bizarre statement that Walz has made during his campaign to rehabilitate his political image after the loss.
During a recent interview with California governor Gavin Newsom, Walz made the bold claim that he thought he could take most Republicans in a fight:
“How do you fight it? I think I could kick most of their ass, I do think that… But I don’t know if we’re going to fall into that place where we challenge you to a WWE fight kind of thing.”
Newsom, to his credit, tried to point out that Democrats were losing ground with male voters – and Tim Walz, proving he learned nothing from 2024, immediately blamed racism and misogyny:
“These are bad guys though. These are bad guys. How do we push some of those guys back under a rock? You don’t think it’s racism and misogyny?”
Still completely clueless.
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