Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz marveled in a post-election interview that middle-class Individuals combating financial points selected billionaire Donald Trump over him and Vice President Kamala Harris, a workforce he billed as a extra middle-class ticket by comparability.
Walz, Harris’ operating mate, sat down for an interview with Minnesota Public Radio on Thursday the place he weighed in on what he thought went unsuitable throughout the Democratic presidential marketing campaign. He concluded there will need to have been a disconnect with the Harris marketing campaign’s messaging to middle-class voters in the event that they went on to vote for a wealthy candidate like Trump.
“I thought it was a real flex when the Wall Street Journal pointed out that I might have been the least wealthy person to ever run for vice president,” Walz informed MPR Information.
“How in the world did we lose to a billionaire or a venture capitalist, when we were making the case of a country attorney and a high school teacher?” he requested later within the interview, contrasting his ticket with Trump’s.
Walz made the purpose that he thought his extra humble financial standing ought to have appealed to voters, and appeared puzzled that wasn’t the case.
“And I thought that would be something people say, ‘Well, this guy knows where we’re coming from. He’s had to pay his bills and still does,’” he mentioned, referring to himself.
Earlier within the dialogue, Walz said, “And this is the one that keeps me up at night, is I focused my whole career in focusing on the middle class… And it seemed like a lot of good ideas were coming from the Democrats.”
“I still believe that,” he continued, “but apparently in this election, not the majority of Americans did. They chose to vote with a billionaire, who’s talked about not paying overtime, who has a long history of not paying his workers, someone who wants to take away the ACA.”
Seeing this, Walz concluded that this occurred as a result of his celebration didn’t talk their middle-class attraction properly sufficient.
“So, I come back to the conclusion, is we did not do a good enough job – we as a Democratic Party and we as a ticket – did not do a good enough job of showing them that we understand where they’re coming from,” the governor mentioned.
He added, “And I feel like one of my roles is – going forward here is – figuring out a way to make the case to the public, the American public, is that the Democratic Party really is focused on the things they care about.”
In an interview with native Minnesota outlet KSTP-TV final week, the governor admitted he was stunned that his ticket misplaced the 2024 election.
“It felt like at the rallies, at the things I was going to, the shops I was going in, that the momentum was going our way, and it obviously wasn’t at the end,” Walz mentioned. “So yeah, I was a little surprised. I thought we had a positive message and I thought the country was ready for that.”
