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Summary

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has criticized the Harris-Walz 2024 presidential campaign for playing it too "safe," saying they should have held more in-person events and town halls.

In a Politico interview, Walz—known for labeling Trump and Vance as "weird"—blamed their cautious approach partly on the abbreviated 107-day campaign timeline after Harris became the nominee in August.

Using football terminology, he said Democrats were in a "prevent defense" when "we never had anything to lose, because I don't think we were ever ahead."

While acknowledging his share of responsibility for the loss, Walz is returning to the national spotlight and didn't rule out a 2028 presidential run, saying, "I'm not saying no."

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[–] Viskio_Neta_Kafo@lemm.ee 10 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (2 children)

The Democrats always take the high road or the decorum path every chance they get. It's one of the reasons why they loose the power struggle so much.

Democrats and playing chess by the rules and Republicans are moving the pieces wherever they want as long as they can get away with it.

The Democrats could have delayed ACB being put on the supreme Court untill election time but they actively decided not to do so.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

The Democrats always take the high road or the decorum path every chance they get.

Not every chance. They run against progressives in primaries sometimes. Then the gloves come off.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 3 points 24 minutes ago (1 children)

DNC leadership genuinely hate Bernie more than Trump.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 3 points 16 minutes ago

Yes, Sanders is progressive, while trump is more in line with dnc leadership's positions.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago

The Democrats always take the high road or the decorum path every chance they get.

They do not

They really do not

They truly do not

They absolutely do not

This theory that Dems don't play dirty is such a bald faced lie. Its rooted in the mythos of the party as an organization of high minded intellectuals and squishy naive good-natured hippies. But anyone who has gone through the trenches of a Dem primary or even bothered to recall the fine details of a general election, know this to be utterly false.

Dems are more than happy to smear their opponents as anti-American, even to the point of accusing them of outright treason. Liberal media orgs and influencers regularly advance personal attacks on their opponents' personal lives (Obama himself won his Illinois Senate seat on the back of the incumbent's infidelity), parade around "body language experts" and other hockey pseudo-scientists to degrade the reputation of the opposition, and outright fabricate claims (the Steele Dossier "pee tape" being the liberal companion to the conservatives' "Whitey Tape" from four years prior) for the entertainment of a gullible base.

The Democrats could have delayed ACB plbeing but on the supreme Court untill election time but they actively decided not to do so.

The Dems could have put a Senator at the head of the Judiciary Committee that wasn't drooling her way through the hearing. But Feinstein's cemented position as senior California Senator was the result of the exact kind of cut-throat politics that has entrenched horrifyingly corrupt and incompetent politicians from Henry Cueller to Joe Manchin.