The aftermath of Trump's landslide victory over Kamala Harris and Tampon Tim Walz has left Democrats in disarray, and several Democrats are angling to fill the party’s presidential primary clown car. The most obvious example is Gavin Newsom, who has launched a podcast with the specific purpose of reinventing himself as a moderate. As pathetic as that is, Walz’s efforts to position himself as a 2028 contender are even worse.
Let's start with the obvious: Walz is part of the first Democratic ticket to lose the popular vote in two decades. And he certainly brought nothing to the ticket. Almost immediately after Harris chose him, his allegations of stolen valor, lies about his past drunk driving arrest and academic history, and a series of other scandals overshadowed his candidacy.
Instead of accepting his place in the ash heap of history, he's refusing to fade into obscurity after the November defeat, overcome with delusions of grandeur. Walz is currently conducting "town halls" across the country, and I use that term loosely because he's banning Republicans from attending. Yet somehow, he thinks he’s owning the Republicans by doing this.
It was great to join @BetoORourke and the good folks in Fort Bend County last night.
— Tim Walz (@Tim_Walz) March 28, 2025
They’re not waiting around for our own leader in a red hat to swoop in and save us, they know we need to roll up our sleeves and do the work together. pic.twitter.com/tB3GUt8dAC
The town halls are not going well, and he seems desperate to prove that he lacks any political savviness whatsoever. While Newsom at least has the shrewdness to see that he needs to pretend to be a moderate to be a viable candidate — even though no one will fall for it — Walz is doubling down on the very policies that drove voters away from the Democratic ticket in 2024.
"We've been talking about this for years as a country of immigrants, and we let them define the issue on immigration. We let them define the issue on DEI, and we let them define what woke is," Walz declared Thursday at a town hall event in Rosenberg, Texas, with Beto O’Rourke of all people. "We got ourselves in this mess because we weren't bold enough to stand up and say, ‘you damn right we're proud of these policies. We're going to put them in, and we're going to execute them."
NEW: Tim Walz says Democrats are losing elections because they’re not pushing hard enough in favor of DEI, wokeism, and allowing illegal immigration.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) March 28, 2025
Wow, this guy is brilliant and totally right. He should run in 2028.
“We let them define the issue on immigration. We let them… pic.twitter.com/3Og4envwb6
This is the same brilliant political mind who decided that installing tampon machines in boys' bathrooms was a winning strategy.
Walz would have been far better off simply returning to Minnesota after the election and focusing on doing his job as governor, instead of deceiving himself into believing he has any real shot at becoming a viable presidential contender. Having had a brief taste of the national spotlight while running alongside Harris, Walz has let that fleeting moment of celebrity go to his head.
However, despite his delusions of grandeur, he’s done nothing to increase his political capital. If anything, he’s done the opposite, further cementing his status as a politician of no real substance or consequence.
It’s honestly baffling that none of his advisors have had the courage to sit him down and explain this harsh reality to him. Instead of focusing on meaningful leadership in his home state, he’s chasing an unattainable dream of national relevance — one that’s slipping further away with each failed town hall and embarrassing public misstep.
