Too bad. He’s been a pretty good governor. Especially there for Minnesotans when they need him.
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I feel like a ton of comment in this room are missing the point. Him choosing to not run changes the calculus for how he handles the rest of his term and where he puts his efforts.
Endorsing someone else takes significantly less effort than running for reelection yourself and it makes the opposition have to do actual work rather than just pointing at his recent failings.
Politically/tactically this is a pretty good move, especially as like others have pointed out, he has given someone else a lot of runway to put a campaign together.
He is probably also personally a factor in the admin targeting Minnesota. Trump/MAGA was really, really outraged by his "weird" shtick during the campaign. Removing himself could be seen as Trump "winning", and now MAGA is wondering why ICE is still fucking up a state purged of its corruption.
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These two lines literally contradict each other... Who the fuck wrote this? Which one is correct, because they can't both be?
The paragraph right before says, on Wednesday, he told MSNOW that he wouldn’t run for office again.
The me that you highlighted is something he said earlier this month.
So, he wasn’t running for gov earlier this month, but didn’t say if we would run for something else. Now, he says he won’t run for an elected office ever again.
— I didn’t notice this when I first read it. You pointed out the wording so I had to go back and read it very carefully to catch all that. It’s definitely written in an odd way and is confusing.
Its a little confusing. At the start of the month he said he's not running for gov again but would consider other elected offices. Now he is saying hes not running for any elected offices. Reading the full article clears it up.
I'm not going to say I was Waltz's biggest fan when he was on the national stage but seemed solid to me and his handling of the Republican attempts at civil war and making the statement he made to get the hell out of the way for new leadership and not cling onto power unlike a lot of his other collogues garners a lot more of my respect.
I hope he follows on his word to help those new leaders and fosters actual change in the party that needs change and a spine.
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Head line is a lie.
but he did not go so far as to say he would not consider another elected position down the line.
“I will never run for an elected office again. Never again,” Walz, the 2024 Democratic vice presidential nominee, said in an interview with MS NOW.
The context of the line you quoted was from earlier
Walz had said this month that he would not seek re-election as governor — sending shock waves through state and national politics — but he did not go so far as to say he would not consider another elected position down the line.
God damn. I hate all of these upvotes to wrong information. 30 upvotes to the guy who called it a lie, despite it being the first line in the article. Another dozen to posts speculating that he said it earlier.
The quote is from an interview from last night where he also talked about the attack on Omar.
The interviewer even replied "never again?" And he reiterated "never again."
He called himself a lightning rod for political attack from the right due to running with Kamala, and he didn't want his people to be punished for it.
Wait - Am I the one you think speculated he said it before?
I just quoted the article saying he had said he wouldn’t run before but hadn’t said at the time he would never run for office and that OP took their quote out of context
No, sorry, not intended at you. I meant to reply to the lie comment. Sorry!
No problem - I didn’t take it that way at first but then I sat down to eat and looked at the thread at large and just wasn’t sure.
I do think my original comment could have been worded more clearly so maybe I was just feeling guilty 😅
I think they are talking about a previous statement of his earlier this month.
“I will never run for an elected office again. Never again,” Walz, the 2024 Democratic vice presidential nominee, said in an interview with MS NOW.
Is supposedly a statement he made yesterday.
Good. He is peacetime material, not fit to protect a state from fascism.
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He seems like a nice guy and says some good things. Sounds like he was an okay governor. That is, until he refused to protect the citizens of his state from a gang of marauding masked murders. Fuck that guy. We need much better.
ITT: people failing reading comprehension.
I wonder if this has anything to do with his "productive" meeting with Trump
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