It was one year ago Wednesday when the only Vice Presidential debate of the 2024 campaign occurred. Republican Veep candidate JD Vance so thoroughly dominated his opponent Tim Walz that prominent Democrats didn't even give the obligatory attempt to polish that turd of performance.
Over the past few weeks, Walz's 2024 running mate Kamala Harris has been out promoting her book 107 Days, which shares her perspective of her failed candidacy. It basically documents events from the day President Joe Biden announced he was not seeking reelection (and thus endorsing Harris to take his place) through her Election Day loss. I haven't read the book, but by all accounts it's little more than a confirmation that Harris is ill-equipped to look in the mirror and acknowledge she's a lousy candidate.
One excerpt of the book in particular discussed Harris's dismay over Walz's debate performance, which is ironic since Harris getting fleeced by Tulsi Gabbard in a presidential debate essentially ended her 2020 candidacy. Anyhow, Walz was recently asked about the critique which Harris levied. And in true Walz fashion, he reverts to gaslighting.
“As far as the book and things like that go, I think she has every right to be critical. I do think I let her down on a couple things,” Walz said. “And I warned them my Minnesota nice thing is if somebody’s being nice to me, I’ll be nice to them … These people have seen me debate. I know my subject. I’m pretty good at it. I don’t think I’m particularly mean.”
Moderator Lulu Garcia-Navarro cut Walz off, asking whether the governor believed he boosted Vance by enabling him to demonstrate “a more collegial side of himself” during the debate. Walz appeared to concede that he had before suggesting that vice presidential debates were insignificant and then immediately backtracking.
“It did matter though, and I think in the moment we were in, in preparing for that, and quite honestly, we did not prepare for him to be more cordial. The expectation was that he would do the false attacks and do some of that. And they didn’t,” the governor said. “So, I’ll give them this — they were well prepared. But my goal was to try and find, you know, getting there. And I’m saying, ‘We all want to fix immigration, but you’re doing the dogs and cats stuff.’ What we’re talking about is fixing the system, adjudicating asylum claims faster.”
If you look back at that debate, the moment was clearly too big for Walz. He's never had to face difficult questions in a large setting, and it showed. So when he was pressed on his claim of being in China during the high profile 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, Walz rambled for a minute or two before having to acknowledge he fabricated the whole thing.
Sorry, but his utter ineptitude in such a setting had little to do with his "being too nice." Not that the local media will call him out on it.
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