Of course they are pissed. He said he fucked up, acknowledging mistakes is the antithesis of being part of the GOP.
This will be complicated when they start seeing Tim Walz in the mirror every day. He looks like a lot of Trumpers.
I remember when John Bolton was in the news it made my dad dye his mustache because he couldn’t stand looking like the guy.
In the end this won’t matter because Fox viewers are not going to listen to anything that’s being said beyond superficial positive/negative framing. So since the anchor said he is bad they’ll think he’s bad.
Objectively though yes, the video is funny and Walz does come out looking good and not bad despite it being a “hit piece”.
If that’s what Fox News is going to roll out as a hit piece, Tim Walz is unassailable.
I think it’s very telling that through his tenure in office here in Minnesota, the local QGOP’s best attack against him is that he spends money (on good things) and his tax policy produced a surplus (because he fixed the deficit).
He is a vet, a devoted family man, and an avid fisherman and hunter.
He’s exactly what they fear most. A blue collar progressive.
So he’s not unassailable. You can attack his policies. But the problem is, they’re fairly popular and have made Minnesota safer and more prosperous than all our red and purple neighbors.
I will add that the local media in MN has cast Minneapolis/STPL downtowns as a horrifying, unsafe, ruinous hellscape following the riots that followed the murder of George Floyd. This has in the last year or so become less impactful as rural folk have started coming to the city again for sports games, etc. But that is another attack vector I’ve seen them get some mileage out of.
A politician who can admit when he’s done something wrong? No wonder fox hates him.
Harris did well to choose him. This ticket has me hopeful for a November win. And the subsequent humiliation of the traitor and felon.
Yeah, I watched his speech at the PA rally tonight and it was excellent. The dude’s just a refreshing voice in national politics. I think he stands a great chance of delivering a lot of independents who are just looking for some common sense out of a politician.
