Governor Tim Walz

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

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

I doubt if there were a whole lot of Republicans. But I'll tell you what, those Republicans were watching. And I think what I would say if I was them is, look, our representative can do better than Walls. He should do it. He should get out there and do it. This is to put pressure on them to come forward because then it really does become a debate about the critical issues.

And like I said this, you know, they can just come and, why did you cut the VA? Just tell us. Tell us why you think that's a good idea. Because I would argue, once again, 80% of Americans don't want to cut the VA. And you have to give them statistics and facts. And I think my purpose of this is to force the hand of these folks, because I gotta be honest with you.

I think if they try and defend this stuff, they're gonna lose. I believe strongly in that. This isn't just us versus them. This is good policy versus bad policy. And so that's the purpose. But no, I wanna be clear to folks who see that. The folks showing up are excited, but here's my thing. Four months after losing this critical election, Our base is still engaged.

So I think that polling is interesting, Gavin, that it doesn't mean that there's less Democrats. And the reason that number is so low is if you poll every single year, if you ask the Republican Party their opinion of the Democratic Party, it's very low. The reason our numbers are so low is those are Democrats.

I'm not a Democrat. I'm Democratic farmer labor. I'm the worst person in the country. We're DFL. And so, and I actually think, Gavin, this is an interesting point. While I won't cry and tell you we've kept the farmers all with us or whatever, We have kept some of them, like Farmers Union in Minnesota and these issues around water quality and different things. And we have labor.

And in Minnesota, we really do. This was a marriage between the Farmer Labor Party, which, quite honestly, was more progressive and leaning into the issues of the working class and Democrats. And so I think on a national level, we're going to have to conversation of who we are, because like you said, people don't believe we're with them. They think we're elitist.

Howard Dean was right, 50 states. And just to be candid, as one of the fringe, you know, kind of washed in with the wave in 2006 when there was the big Democratic wave, it was because of Howard Dean and a few folks that were out there that were saying expand the map. Rahm Emanuel, of all people, was one of them, too, said we need to expand the map everywhere.

They went into a district that had one Democrat since 1892 and put a little money into it. And I won. And so I think if you want to govern this country, you can't tell Montana they don't matter or Idaho or Mississippi. And look, you and I both know this. You also can't tell the Central Valley and things. We're not, everybody thinks, oh, California's solid.

I have to say, I appreciate it, and you're going on talking, and I get frustrated with some of these folks. I get frustrated with the talking heads and the folks who I think are bad actors. I don't get frustrated with my neighbors who are voting that way. I don't understand it as well, but I'm trying to get them –

You know, we have to figure out a way that we're not the Republicans have done a good job of this. We're the enemy now. Now we're in this situation where they see Russians as being more trustworthy than us. You know, that's that's a sad state to be in. Unbelievable state. Yes. And I don't know. Again, I don't. I don't know if I've got the ability to bring back those 77 million.

I do believe we've got the ability to get the disenfranchised folks who are seeing the damage here. And I think that's really important because this is truly this isn't about winning elections. This is about what's best for the country. And you'll never convince me siding with Putin in North Korea is good for the country or fighting a trade war with Canada and Mexico is good for the country.

I don't buy it.

Fringe red herring issues that get Democrats at Democrats, that Democratic activists screaming at other Democrats. How do we and I did it, Gavin. I admitted it. I took the dogs and cats argument and ran right with it. And he sucked me in. We have been in these issues where we may not all agree on on all the issue, but we buy their frame.

And then you have Democrats fighting against Democrats and they sail above it.

And having served in Congress, you're an executive. You know what makes the hard? I put out a budget and everybody's angry with me. All my friends, you know, including teachers who I'm looking out for, but you have to do these things. But I think it's in the moment with this.

And I look and this is where Democrats, we actually care about the institutions and we care about people like, you know, my opinion on this is I believe, Chuck, 100 percent believes that he made a decision that that reduced the pain and the risk to Americans. I see it now that we're in a point where I think we're in a new world. That pain is coming anyway. And I'm with you. I'm with you. Yeah.

And they think we gave up our leverage. And to make it clear who owns this, because now to the American public who doesn't do this for a living and is out doing their job. They said, well, they passed this budget and they agreed with Donald Trump and now we all own that. I think you should have made Donald Trump justify why things were getting so bad.

And we as governors would do our best to protect the most vulnerable. That seemed to me to be the fight we should have had. But I think the public saying is, you guys weren't even coordinated on that.

I go back to it again, Gavin. It's not a flip at Vermont. It's the people. And then in a democracy, they send people forward to be able to do this. The party is not leadership. The party is there to enable. And I know for me, I wouldn't have got elected as president.

a high school teacher with no connections, no political experience, if I wouldn't have been able to go to Worthington, Minnesota and meet a woman named Deb Hokanson, who already knew how to organize a little get together and put me in front of 40 people and let me give my little speech. That's what the party was supposed to do.

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