Governor Tim Walz

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241 appearances 14 recordings 8 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 19 Apr

Governor Tim Walz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Rachel Maddow Show · Maddow: Trump admin shows folly of blind obedience to someone who doesn't know what they're doing · 21 Mar 2025 podcast

This is why folks are starting to question. And what I truly worry that I get sucked into, too, is they throw so much at it. it's this is the stuff that you should watch this is that disappearing people sharing our most guarded secrets on global conflict with a truly unstable private citizen who has no authority um and appears to not care so yeah i i would just say this is chilling um

I'm hoping that the resistance, and right now the resistance has to be in the Senate. Republican senators need to put a stop to this and pull this back.

Thank you, Rachel.

This is Gavin Newsom · And, This is Governor Tim Walz · 18 Mar 2025 podcast

I am. Thanks for having me. I'm kind of wondering where I fall on this list of guests, but I'm excited. You and I have been friends for a while, so we appreciate it. But you and I talked about this for a while, trying to understand during a Trump presidency, how do we best serve our folks? How do we get back there?

And the Democratic Party, I mean, we all need to be very candid, is not all that popular right now.

Well, and I think that's what people are doing. Look, this is something hadn't been done, what you're doing. And people are, you know, and we're trying to enter spaces. And look, I don't know if all of them are going to work. But the fact of the matter is, we don't want to win elections just to say Democrats won elections. We want to win elections to improve people's lives.

When we're losing elections, chaos reigns, which we're seeing right now. I'm at a town hall and these folks are standing up. They're a VA nurse. They're concerned what's happening at the VA. They're a farmer that's concerned. They're folks that are concerned about their personal reproductive rights and their life choices. And if we can't be a respected opposition or alternative,

That really worries me. And I say this, Gavin, that I didn't go to the Democrats. They came to me with Social Security, with GI Bill. It was clear when, at least my age growing up, Democrats stood with working people, Republicans stood with the wealthy. And there was nothing necessarily wrong with that. It was at least an argument. It feels much more polarized now, but people don't see us as that.

Yeah, look, and I felt excitement out there. And our policies are popular, by the way. When you pull our policies, like paid family medical leave, support for the environment, reproductive rights, they pull very high. We don't.

So what I have to tell you, what I take away from that, Gavin, is that I think we've got to be very careful of drinking our own Kool-Aid or believing we're in our bubble, because I truly did think we were going to win. And I say that as someone who has run in traditionally red districts, won close races, and I felt like I had a feel.

And I think this is where we're going to have to get out over our skis a bit, try new places. I know we've had this argument. It was out there. Governor, we didn't see you on a lot of things that weren't mainstream media. We didn't see you on podcasts. We didn't see you doing that. Are you willing to go into those? We need to be willing to go into those spaces.

Now, between you and I, Gavin, I don't think we're going to win over those 77 million that voted for Donald Trump. I'm concerned with the 90 million who stayed home. Now, I'm concerned that our policies positively impact those 77 million because you and I represent a lot of

independents republicans greens as well as democrats we have responsibility i don't know if we can necessarily win them over but i think the thing that we should really soul search on is when the choice was donald trump jd vance and kamala harris and myself and policies that we were clearly articulating it got pretty close 77 to 75 type of thing but it's the 90 million that stayed home why did they think we were the same why did they think we weren't there and i don't

I think by going into these spaces to be candid with you, it allows people to express their frustrations. It allows people to articulate what's happening in their lives. It better also be a place where we're hearing and learning. Because I'm guessing you're hearing some things that you don't normally hear when you're going on with some of these folks you're on with. They don't understand.

They don't hear.

Yeah, I think that's good. Yeah, and look, and I appreciate, I think we're gonna be in hard places and I think we're gonna get punched from both sides doing some of this, but we're not in this to, like I said, we're not banking political capital to win another election. We're trying to improve people's lives.

and let's all be very candid nobody's lives being improved right now except billionaires and i don't see that changing and so i think we're going to have to ask those questions i think a lot of times the simple answer is it's the messenger you know which i'll acknowledge maybe the messenger is not good at this i approach this always gavin like a school teacher i give a lesson and then i do an assessment of that lesson

And half the students didn't do very well on it. Well, I don't assume that those half are terrible kids. I assume that they have a different learning style or they weren't hearing the way I was teaching it. Maybe these folks were, you know, verbal learners. Maybe they were kinesthetic learners, whatever it might be.

I think we have to approach the electorate like that, that we think we're telling them where we're at. But for whatever reason, you're right. And this pains me. I tried to make the case. Look. I'm a public school teacher, went to a public university. And according to the Wall Street Journal, I'm the poorest person who ever ran for vice president. That didn't matter to them.

And so the idea here that we were trying to craft someone who, for whatever reason, there was a number of people that didn't register with. So I'm with everybody else. And again, when people ask me, I'm probably the last person you should ask for answers because I didn't get it done. But I do believe we were making inroads.

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