Failed vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz blamed himself for the state the Democratic Party turned into following his election loss as he grapples with President Trump’s policies since his return to office.
The 60-year-old Minnesota governor claimed America “wouldn’t be in this mess” if he and former Vice President Kamala Harris won the 2024 election in November.
“I think Americans have had it, I hope they’ve had it and now we just need to do what we can do to make the case. Look I own this, we wouldn’t be in this mess if we would’ve won the election and we didn’t,” Walz ranted on MSNBC’s “All in with Chris Hayes.”
“We have to make sure that Americans know its just not that Donald Trump is bad, but that we’re offering something better,” he added.
Walz didn’t specify what the Democratic Party had to offer but ridiculed Trump for implementing his policies, including imposing tariffs on Canadian goods, closing the US border and gutting the Department of Education.
He argued the policies were “incredibly disruptive” to the lives of Minnesotans, claiming people on both sides of the US-Canada border are experiencing the effects of tariffs.
“Donald Trump is this caricature that had a reality TV show that pretended like he knew how to run businesses,” Walz claimed. “The reality is he doesn’t.”
“The claim that he is the business president. He is the worst possible business executive that I have ever witnessed,” he added.
Walz maintained his disdain toward the 47th president but affirmed that parts of Trump’s policies made sense in the eyes of Americans.
“Look, I’m conservative and I believe that systems work for a long time, that you don’t have to break them. Are there improvements that need to be done? Yes, and I think we’re guilty of sometimes of not acting. Could the Department of Education be more efficient? Absolutely,” he said.
Walz acknowledged, however, that Trump’s plan to give local schools the money directly “sounds pretty good.”
“We have not provided what that alternative looks like and I think it’s fair,” he said.
Walz also welcomed the “disruptors” that “shake up” institutions inside the federal government for the betterment of the people but said he couldn’t find the “goal at the end of the day.”
“What is the goal and where is it backed up? There’s not a single economist that backs tariffs. There’s no one there.”
Walz announced he will be in Iowa on Friday at a town hall with residents wanting to know why Republicans want to “cut Medicaid,” a claim the White House has debunked multiple times.
“The Trump Administration will not cut Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid benefits. President Trump himself has said it (over and over and over again),” the White House said Tuesday.
It noted that Trump wanted to eliminate the “waste and fraud” in the federal government.
