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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And I will have to tell you, one of the most powerful ones for me, Gavin, it's not a great use of campaign time, but we were up in Erie, Pennsylvania on Halloween before the election. And I sat down with five undecided voters and we had a 45 minute give and take on that. I think I got three of them for sure, maybe. But, you know, that's how you view it.
But the fact of the matter was, is it was really good for me, too, because it was coming back and forth. And this guy says, well, I didn't realize, you know, you understood farm policy like this because I'm not hearing that from you guys. He was telling us he wasn't hearing that. And I said, but I do know this. I know the price of corn. I know how these things work. So.
I think as Democrats, we're going to have to push ourselves into uncomfortable spots. And these town halls, look, I'll be the first to acknowledge you. It's to highlight that their members of Congress on the Republican side are ashamed of Donald Trump's policies.
Yes. And I don't demonize these representatives. I honor their service. I went out there, but I lived through this. I went to the town halls during the ACA and I made a full throated defense of President Obama's health care bill and I got reelected. Now, it was a tough fight, but I got reelected. These folks are not going out there. And I'll tell you, it's a huge mistake. Democrats did this.
in 2010 oh these are republican operatives they were not republican operatives they were my neighbors who were madder than hell and were getting misinformation but i went out and filled that void i think we as democrats have have left a void and that donald trump is masterful say what you will about this i don't give him credit i don't think he's a genius i don't think he knows how stuff works but i do think he knows how media works and i do think he knows that if
We're assuming people hear our arguments. They're just so selfish. Just like that teacher in me. I taught the lesson. This should be easy. Well, that's not how all people learn. It's not how people's lives are at.
And again, I don't if someone who doesn't believe a woman should have the right to choose, if someone who doesn't believe the president should be restrained by the Constitution, I'm not going to win them. But I don't believe that's a very large percentage of the population. But why are they not trusting us? What's your take? I mean, what are you hearing when you hear this?
Why are people not trusting the message we were delivering? Because I keep coming back to this. We needed to have immigration reform to control our borders. And you can do that with humanity. Donald Trump just said they're invading our country and they're eating dogs and cats.
Yeah, no, you're right. And I've talked to my team about it. Look, as a high school teacher and a governor or whatever, I didn't think about writing a
book but being there I have you know I think we got to tell our story and I think there's lessons learned to not go back and do a you know a deep dive or a hot wash of this is is irresponsible in my opinion I spoke to the the vice president last week we talked a little bit about this of coming to it but we haven't done like a formal debrief and you know when you're part of you've done this that when you're part of a team on this you know you you work together and I stand by that I signed up and
And I say this, Gavin, you'd appreciate, not the cliches of coaching or whatever, but I feel like I'm the constant team player. If you are truly a team player, you have a responsibility to make your team better. And that means a responsibility to say, look, we're not making this block here. We need to do this or whatever it is.
And we need to be honest that, again, I keep coming back to that number of the folks who stayed home. How in God's name could you stay home during this election? It's pretty hard to blame that on Donald Trump. You know what I mean? That you've got a responsibility. They weren't going to vote for him. His people were.
But you had a whole bunch of these folks that just said, what difference does it make? And how did we as a party get into that? How did we lose the narrative? How much are we ceding ground to the Fox News and the right wing talking heads? How much are we ceding to them, which we don't have a pushback on it? And that's fascinating to me. I see that with me.
people who have a clearly defined vision of who I am by what they listen to. And I'm like, Well, that's not true. None of that is true, but they have it.
And it did it. And I'm telling you, this is one of the most painful ones for me, Gavin, not because I don't go down and throw this in people's faces, but my dad was Korean War veteran. He took me. I did it. I don't go out there and say, you know, I'm better than you because I did 24 years. But how quickly these guys dismissed 24 years of honorable service.
I rose and served as a highest ranking enlisted soldier where you can get. And. they find a way to damage that. And my argument on that has always been, it damages all veterans. But I bet if you went and polled, we see this, veterans voted for Donald Trump when they voted for us. We as Democrats, how do you write this off? How do you, or this one? Republicans are more fiscally conservative.
You know that's not true. Republican governors of California have not been fiscally conservative.
You're doing other things. And I said, I think we as Democrats have to give, whether it's Bernie Sanders, whether it's Jasmine Crockett, AOC, Gavin Newsom, J.B. Pritzker, all of the folks out there, because look, what we have in common is we believe in working people. We believe in fairness. We believe in health care. We believe in the environment. We're on the same team as the American public.
But how do you see it?
No, I don't fear it. But I think we need to be honest with ourselves. The folks who took a beautiful Friday afternoon in Des Moines to come listen to Tim Wall speak probably have a pretty good opinion of me in the first place. But that's okay, too. That's okay. Because they're screaming, what are you guys going to do about it? But I do tell you, there were some independents there.
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