Tim Walz Offers Blunt Message For 'Fatigued' Voters After 'Pure Hell' Election Loss [View all]

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Source: Huff Post

Jan 30, 2025, 06:12 AM EST


Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Tuesday laid out a strategy to “push back” against Donald Trump’s administration after a chaotic start to the president’s second term that’s seen a since-rescinded, controversial memo that aimed to freeze all federal grants.

“You know, that overused term ‘the frog in the boiling water,’ we’ve been in the damn pot way too long,” said the former Democratic vice presidential nominee in an interview with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow.

He later continued, “To the voters, I’m with this, too. Everybody’s fatigued. Trust me, I get it, it was pure hell and the disappointment and the frustration. I’m, you know, soul searching, ‘What could we have done to make the case,’ cause we knew this was coming, we knew that the implications...”

Walz — who called Trump’s federal funding freeze “stupid, buffoonish and childish” before it was temporarily halted by a federal judge on Tuesday — has previously weighed in on the Democrats’ election loss, declaring that he was “a little surprised” by Trump and JD Vance’s win over his ticket with Kamala Harris.

On Tuesday, he argued that Republicans have since ended up throwing “so much” at Democrats that they’ve become “fatigued,” pointing to debate around whether Elon Musk’s infamous hand gesture was a Nazi salute.

“But that is a distraction from what I think, you said, this is game on stuff right here,” he said of the funding freeze.

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