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

My job was to hear and reflect from them and then take our values and vote for them. And I think we've gotten ourselves in this bind where we think there's going to be one person. Now, I want to be very clear about this. It doesn't excuse any of us for not being organized, coordinated, thoughtful, delivering a unified message. And by the way, Tim, we're not doing that.

And you know, we're not doing that.

Yeah, we're not a caucus. But and again, our our. The folks who are out there, whether on social media or the folks at the local coffee shop or whatever, they want us to have a unified message. And here's where I really think they've missed in D.C. on this. It does feel to me that despite those numbers, the Democratic Party is unified. They're unified in being pissed off at the Democratic Party.

And they are unified in that Donald Trump's policies are going to hurt people. So I would argue, Gavin, that there's an argument in here. And then I'm going to I'm going to. I like him a lot and I think he's right. I think Ezra Klein is giving us a bit of a roadmap here.

We blindly say all of our democratic institutions and our government institutions are unquestionably working as well as they should. We open it up. We should be striving to do things better. We should acknowledge. I'm trying to do it here in Minnesota. I'm not going to cut

you know safeguards around permitting but i will be the first to acknowledge it takes us too long to permit projects there you go and it it bogs down systems and i started you know we have to bring people in who look you're gonna you're gonna cater to corporate interests or whatever no i'm trying to make it easier to build a solar field and be able to get that out there i'm trying to make it easier for somebody to bring in a new business but not sacrifice

workers' safety, environmental safety, and that. And we don't acknowledge that enough, I don't think. There you go. And they, you know how Republicans are, I'll cut your taxes and, you know, we'll cut government spending. But now you have all these stories, people saying, well, I voted for Trump and I wanted them to cut government spending, but I didn't mean me. I didn't mean my stuff.

We as Democrats have to connect that government does deliver positives, does deliver things. But we also are we're fallible. And and in some cases we get in the way. So say it.

Tell him thanks for me because I agree with him on this. I think he's trying to figure out a better way that this isn't an all or nothing. And this is an advantage for us because Republicans are telling people that all government stinks. You're going to regret this. And I was down in Iowa when the tornadoes are hitting. It's really good to have weather forecasting. Really good.

Yeah, no. And look, it Adjacent to this, Voice of America went silent today, which I tell you, having listened to Voice of America living in Asia in 89, I found out that the Berlin Wall fell through Voice of America. And there's a reason that they didn't want you to hear that when you're living in China, because that's pretty threatening to their way of doing things.

So I think we haven't conveyed that. the power of that communication. And as the landscape has changed so greatly, because look, I know you're, you're taking a risk doing a podcast, doing something to try and fill a void that's out there. And hopefully trying to use it as a platform to articulate our values to a different or broader audience. But we've not figured this out yet.

And I don't, do I think we'd have won this election if we'd have gone on one of those podcasts? No, no. Probably not, but I don't think we'd have got beat by more. You know what I mean? I don't think, I think it would have been a chance, but I think any place we can go to talk about our values, the value of these town halls too, Gavin, is that they slow things down and you can talk things through.

And I think at the end of the day, you start finding out you know, there are people out there saying, well, I didn't really realize that. I didn't see it that way, but we're as guilty of this too. I want to go on to places where I get, you know, confirmation bias, which I already believe it. And then of course people turn to, we've got to broaden it. We've got to get to more people.

We've got to recognize the disconnect between our policies and how people view them. And I think we always, this is just me. I'm going to say it that I think somebody has got to be big and strategic and macro. I just look at every one of these issues through the individual lens. how it's impacting them. And I try and stay in that space.

And I'll be the first to admit to you, I view most issues through the eyes of a teacher. It's just who I am. Like a thing when those kids come in the classroom, that means I view homelessness, food, insecurity, you know, inclusion.

I view all of those things through the eye of a teacher, what it means to be in that, because I believe that that's the, in America, that's the great hope, the great equalizer, the great experiment. And so I, something in there we're missing in a pretty big way, obviously.

Because I saw it for me and not that I spend much time thinking about this and it just baffled me how much time they spent trying to attack me that I wasn't like masculine enough in their vision. Like I would have never believed this. I saw Fox News did like a couple of days because I used a straw. And I'm like, hell, man, what am I? How else do you drink a milkshake type of thing?

But they they focused on it obsessively, which I think, again, is their obsession, their weirdness. We buy their frame on these issues of sexuality, you know, but their whole thing was, is that they spent all their time. These guys on Fox News that that Walls is gay, is not masculine. You know, he doesn't coach football the way he should or doesn't. What do you think about this?

I mean, because there's a lot of misogyny in here that's happening.

I do think that. I know I can run about. But I don't know if we're going to fall into that place where we want to, OK, we challenge you to a, you know, a WWE fight here type of thing.

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