Tim Walz says he may run for president in 2028 despite failure of Harris campaign

It's cute that they think there's gonna be another election.

How about someone good?

I'm feeling pretty certain the dems will run Buttigieg. Feels like they've been prepping him for a while.

Tim Walz unleashed would have won this.

He was hamstrug by Harris. He’s likely the dem’s best choice for 2028.

So of course they’ll run Newsome or Shapiro or Hillary Clinton again because they’re a bunch of idiots.

Anyone who failed to beat Trump has to go away. No exceptions.

Walz was great in 2024. He had enthusiasm and actually answered the interviewers' questions. I would have preferred the symbolic victory of a black woman president, but I like Walz better as an individual person. I think he could have won if he'd been the presidential candidate. Well, Harris won too, but I mean he could have won even with the voter suppression stealing all those democratic votes.

President Walz and Vice President Cortez is the future we need. But probably not the future we'll get.

Thinking there is going to be a real election in 2028 is the most optimistic thing I've heard in a while.

Waltz is a Zionist

Fuck you genocide supporters. You'll loose

I really do think Tim Walz has a real chance. A very likeable guy.

Doesn't hurt that he's white and male, too.

The Harris campaign had to cover the governor’s tracks when he tripped up during a California fundraiser by stating that the constitutionally-mandated system used to select the president, otherwise known as the electoral college, “needs to go”.

How the hell is that a gaffe? It's both the truth and exactly what people want to hear. Any lib who thinks like that needs to kindly keep their mouths shut for the next four years. This country needs radical change, the only choice you get is which one you want.

Yay back to the same old same old likeable candidate who will do the same old same old things that will eventually allow for another Trump. Rinse and repeat...

I live in MN. Last year Tim W was having his house renovated. So he rented a house for over 17000 dollars a month for him and his family to live in while his house was worked on. MN tax payers paid for this. Absolutely ridiculous.

He can run for the primary, like everyone else...

I'm not convinced there will be an election in 2028...

Fuckin should have been the nominee in the first place - him or Sanders.

Walz/Sanders ticket, please.

Is he going to play a centrists or actually move the needle?

Don't need another "capitalist Harris"

Seemed like a genuine awesome dude, love what he's done in Minnesota but I lack faith that in the democratic party he'll do any good. That and he needs to work on debating....

Rather have AOC

That said better than most of the geriatric pandering democratic ineffective options. Even though he'll be close to 70....

He's got some things going for him. Male. Presumably heterosexual. Caucasian. Old (but perhaps not quite old enough). I say go for it.

He's a wet sandwich of a candidate.

Him calling the GOP weird was not a gaffe but the campaign made him walk away from that language because it might offend potential turncoats. The fact he is internalizing the criticism worries me.

Walz was the main reason I voted for a right winger like Kamala anyway.

Walz seems like a good guy but I think anyone associated with Harris campaign is tainted and rightfully so.

I’d vote for him, given that we’re still allowed to vote.

No. Run AOC

“A large number of people did not believe we were fighting for them in the last election – and that’s the big disconnect.”

does this mean he would pander to republican voters again

Unless he steps up and starts fighting alongside the progressives trying to do something (like joining Bernie's current Midwest tour), I don't see him as being a viable candidate for 2028.

I like Walz. A lot. But he's got to show more leadership on the national stage right now, ala Newsom, Whitmer, Pritzker and (in a pleasant surprise) Mills. I think he was thrust onto the national stage before he was ready by the DNC looking to swing the Midwest with a non-threatening centrist candidate, and his silence after the election (and the lack of a real response from the Harris campaign) has left it to other governors to take up the mantle of national leadership.

Would I vote for him if he were on the ticket? Yes. Would I vote for him over Newsom, Whitmer or Pritzker - probably not unless he steps up and takes the battle to Trump NOW.

He's got the stink of Biden/Harris on him, but he's got four years to wash that off.

Let's see if he does, or if he thinks cozeying up to establishment Dems is the ticket to victory.

Walz is a completely valid candidate. The only thing that held up Harris was that she was a black woman. I'm confident that any reasonable white man would have beat Trump, and that's unfortunate, but it's the reality of the American electorate

We could do (and have done) a lot worse. My only concern is whether or not he has the backbone to refuse to be steered to the right, the way Kamala was after the convention. His Midwestern politeness definitely didn't serve him well in the debate.

Not my 1st choice, but will vote for any democrat, no matter what. I’d prefer that every republican fuck off and die, painfully.

that would be so based.

I'd argue that it wasn't so much that the campaign failed but the DNC did by failing to recognize the importance of the election and worrying too much about not turning off Republicans. The reality of Tim Walz is he's not going to be subject to the racism and misogyny Harris was. Maybe that's enough.

I wouldn't mind a big field of (good) Democratic candidates. Sanders, AOC, Crockett, Walz, they can all campaign. They can mutually have have their rivals as VP picks, and Sanders can have a public contract where the VP can remove him from office, if his age makes him mentally unfit for office.

What I would like to see, is a dynasty of (genuinely) progressive candidates of at least 24+ years. Sanders/Jasmine --> Jasmine/AOC --> AOC/???.

The Geronocrats and Republicans had the opportunity to show their worth, and have been found wanting. It is time for some new blood that truly cares about the wellbeing of Americans and the globe.

Probably a mistake.

No fucking way.

Nope. NO ONE who had anything to do with why we are where we are. Fuck the while of the dem party besides AOC and Bernie.

Was it marred by gaffes? Are they thinking of the weird VP candidate?

We'll see if we have a 2028, or if they'll try to reset the numbering to American years or some shit.

Has my vote. He could win.

Walz's self-awareness is refreshing, but his track record doesn’t inspire national confidence. Lacks deeper analysis of whether his candidacy would be viable given his role in the 2024 defeat.

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Better than 70+. But he will be 64 at the time of the election. That means 68 at the time of the next one if he wins. I thought we were trying for younger presidents. Can we aim for someone in thier 50's?

I guess so long as there is a democratic selection process wherein the people can choose their party leader, that’d be an improvement.

What's become clear in American politics is that it doesn't matter if you hang a little to the left or a little to the right so long as you're not cleft down the center.

As long as the Democratic Party considers whites to be automatically racist and sexist then do they actually represent the population?

If I were him I'd install metal bars in my windows, specially if he lives in a high up condo. No reason, everything's fine.

Makes too many speaking gaffes. Can't risk anything.

*Bring on the downvotes. Doesn't change facts.