Summary

Former vice presidential nominee Tim Walz criticized Trump for economic chaos while taking personal responsibility for the situation during an MSNBC interview.

“We wouldn’t be in this mess if we’d have won the election — and we didn’t,” Walz told Chris Hayes. He called Trump the “worst possible business executive” and praised the Wall Street Journal’s editorial criticizing Trump’s tariff war.

Walz emphasized Democrats must offer something better, not just criticize Trump. Recently, he acknowledged a leadership void in the Democratic Party and admitted spending too much time combatting Trump’s false claims about immigrants.

  • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    All the democrats had to do was field a white male opponent against Trump who can be charming and give good speeches. Instead they put up a biracial woman, who the fuck amongst the democrats thought that America was ready for a biracial woman president, like did they do zero pooling to figure out what the people wanted, aren’t politicians supposed to know the pulse of the nation, it’s literally their job to serve the citizens of the country. They should have made Bernie or even Walz the presidential candidate and Kamal could have been the VP

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      18 hours ago

      I think spurning the Arab American vote in swing states, to secure the Israeli vote in a solid blue state had a lot to do with it…

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      The “she lost because she’s a woman of color” talking point is just an excuse to shut out AOC in 2028.

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          22 hours ago

          I think they can be both. They’re called republicans and appealing to them is why harris lost.

          I don’t think they’re as prevalent as democrats are making them out to be. And I think that they’re overstating the problem as an excuse to shut out AOC.

    • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 day ago

      All the democrats had to do was field a white male opponent against Trump who can be charming and give good speeches. Instead they put up a biracial woman

      she was literally the previous VP, about the best pick you’re going to get, especially from a functional party, as much as people will tell you the biden admin didn’t do shit, it’s one of the more productive admins, in a long time.