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Minnesota Governor Tim Walz offered candid insights about the Democratic Party’s current challenges during a recent interview with New York Magazine, acknowledging his own tendency to speak unfiltered and expressing concerns about his party’s communication approach.
During the conversation, Walz reflected on his communication style, describing himself as effective 90% of the time but potentially a “train wreck” the other 10% when speaking from his heart, comparing his authentic approach to conversations among teachers in break rooms or laborers during their breaks.
“I think we’re cautious by nature,” Walz said. “And look, I said this and I told the vice president, I said I know my strengths and weaknesses. I said about 90% of the time, I can be really good, but about 10% of the time, I can be a train wreck because I’m speaking from the heart, like a teacher sitting in a teachers lounge or a laborer sitting at the break table.”
So @Tim_Walz is a loser. Literally and figuratively.
He is actively rooting for the downfall of a leading American technology company that employs over 70,000 Americans—simply because he doesn’t like that @elonmusk helped prevent Democrats from winning.
Pathetic. pic.twitter.com/HffTBfNnFU
— Jeffery Mead (@the_jefferymead) March 20, 2025
The governor critiqued the Democratic Party’s messaging strategy, particularly regarding their approach to different voter demographics. He illustrated this point with an example of how the party’s focus on felon voting rights restoration might miss the mark with certain audiences.
“I heard this from someone who said, ‘With Democratic go-to messages, basically to Black men, these Democratic politicians led with ‘We restored felon voting rights,’ and the Black men said, ‘But we’re not felons, we’re MBAs looking for capital,'” Walz added. “The restoration of felon voting rights is important — I did that in Minnesota — but it’s not aspirational. With Donald Trump, everything’s gold plated and he’s hanging around with these stars, and I don’t know if we do enough of that.”
Discussing the 2024 campaign, Walz shared his thoughts about Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential run, suggesting she wasn’t given the opportunity to showcase her bold leadership potential.
Tim Walz: "We got ourselves into this mess because we did NOT embrace immigrants, wokeness, and DEI" pic.twitter.com/i7HEQQErFr
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“Well, I won’t critique the campaign,” Walz said. “They need to do what they need to do, but I don’t think Vice President Harris got to be bold. We were dealing with a short runway. That was that one election. I think it would be foolish for us to take a ton of lessons from that because this has been going on for several cycles, certainly since 2016, that we are really struggling to broaden our appeal and energize folks.”
Currently, Walz is conducting town halls in Republican-leaning districts across the country. During a recent March 27 event, he suggested that Democrats’ current difficulties stem from allowing Republicans to control the narrative on crucial issues like DEI and immigration.
Recent polling data indicates declining public approval for Democratic Party leadership, while President Trump enjoys favorable ratings in his second term. The Democratic National Committee’s Chairman Ken Martin recently acknowledged in a February memo that voters increasingly view Republicans as the working-class party while perceiving Democrats as representing elite interests.
Walz’s office did not provide additional comments when contacted.
