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Walz on why he was picked as Harris running mate: ‘I could code talk to white guys’ (thehill.com)

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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) said one reason he was chosen as former Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate in the recent election was because he could “code talk to white guys watching football” and “fixing their truck.”

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I see 3 main reasons she lost and none of them have really anything to do with Walz.

I remember that the week they picked Walz was the one week where we all thought that the Dems could actually run a competent campaign. People were calling Republicans "wierd", Kamala no-showed a Netanyahu Senate visit, Walz was and still is genuinely popular - there was a lot of hope that she would break with Biden to the point where even cynical people thought she would do it out of pure electoral calculus due to Biden's unpopularity.

Then ~~apparently Harris herself~~ the Biden staffers they brought on the campaign shut down the "weird" messaging, and she had that blood and soil DNC speech, and we all got brought back to reality.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It was Biden strategists not her.

Three weeks into her presidential run was the first time the Biden campaign’s pollsters — now hers — held a deep-dive call with Kamala Harris’ inner circle to discuss what she’s been saying on the stump. Over the line came a lot of praise, but also some suggested tweaks. First, said veteran Democratic numbers man Geoff Garin, summarizing their analysis, stop saying, “We’re not going back.” It wasn’t focused enough on the future, he argued. Second, lay off all the “weird” talk — too negative.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/08/18/politics/kamala-harris-presidential-campaign/index.html

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So, she was stupid and naive enough to embrace the most destructive and losing campaign she could have possibly chosen and give up everything that was working? Weird how it is a constant refrain that tacking towards the right is the winning move that all campaign advisors point out, and even though it always loses, Obama was the only Democrat after Bill Clinton to not follow this advice, it is not a damning condemnation that a Dem candidate always listen to this advice, despite its obvious failures. Litterally, Biden could not have won on this playbook (only Democrat since Clinton to win with this) if the combination of COVID and BLM made Trump seem obviously failing, through no virtue of Biden.

No, we should glorify and defend Harris for selling out to the most loosing and useless tactics possible, because being polite and positive is more important that defeating, in her words!, fascism.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

It's hard to pin down what she actually believes in, but if I had to guess she was forced to take those strategists on and their policies to maintain access to the funding that came from Biden.

Even if she didn't believe in many of the popular policies she mentioned in the early days, I think she had okay instincts, but was too afraid to go against the whole Democratic machine.

Being a strategist is a business and they get paid no matter if they win or lose, so their interest lie in protecting that business model inside the aparatus.

P.S. Nowhere did I defend the Harris or her loosing strategy. I just pointed out factual mistake.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Oh whoops.