We're approximately seven months removed from the 2024 presidential election and Democrats are still engaging in post mortems. And front and center is the Dem VP candidate Nebraska Fats Tim Walz, who continues to show he is utterly clueless as to what caused he and Kamala Harris to lose the POTUS race.
As podcast host and former Montana Sen. Jon Tester argued that the campaign didn't use Walz effectively, Walz said his argument spoke to a broader point about the Democratic Party not entering "every media environment," including podcasts and local media. He said, "My God, they're not watching ‘Meet the Press,’ they're listening to you guys, as they're going somewhere, listening."
The former Democratic vice presidential candidate spoke to Tester and journalist Maritsa Georgiou, hosts of the "Grounded" podcast, on Thursday about the 2024 campaign and the Democratic Party's next steps.
Though Harris did speak to some podcast hosts, she also visited traditional media outlets such as CNN and CBS' "60 Minutes," and waited weeks after her campaign launch to do media at all.
"I think you got to flood the zone," Walz said. "And I would argue we didn't see, you know, the vice president when she got in front of people, and I watch her talking to young people, she was magnetic with them. She was optimistic. She was hopeful. But in today's world, you got to have a lot of that, or it gets lost in the noise. And if you think you're just going to do a, you know, a '60 Minutes' interview, and that's going to get across, boy, that's not it."
The problem for Harris is people already knew who she was. She had the reputation of being painfully ill-informed on many policy issues, often answering questions as if she were giving an oral book report without having thoroughly read the book. And the fact she indicated on perhaps the most leftist friendly environment that is The View that she wouldn't change a thing from what the failed Biden administration had done its first 3-1/2 years was a critical (if not fatal) wound. Not sure how "flooding the zone" with a lackadaisical message would have made their electoral prospects any better.
Also, as my former Northern Alliance Radio Network alum (and Hot Air chief) Ed Morrissey points out, Walz as the Veep pick was a catastrophic blunder.
For one thing, he was clearly the He's Not a Jew choice by Harris, who was widely expected to pick Josh Shapiro to bolster her strength in Pennsylvania, but that isn't Walz' fault. Instead, Walz tried to make a campaign slogan out of calling Republicans "weird" while strutting across stages like Freddie Mercury on a coke binge. Walz also talked a lot about "freedom" and "Mind Your Own Damn Business" from a governor who established a literal snitch line for Minnesotans to rat out family and friends for supposed pandemic sins -- a Stasi-esque operation that ran for more than two years in Minnesota. Harris supposedly picked Walz as a masculine role model to attract younger male voters, which speaks largely to Harris' lack of intellectual capacity.
CNN host Jake Tapper's anecdote about leftists' reactions to his football-playing, aspiring cop son encapsulates the Dems' issues with male voters (caution: strong language).
"This is why you fuckers are losing elections."
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) May 28, 2025
CNN's Jake Tapper says left-wing podcast hosts assumed his teen son is racist because he wants to be a police officer.
"That's how the democratic party talks to men." pic.twitter.com/1Dj0drIYsO
I don't see this as something that gets fixed over one or two election cycles.
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