Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said Democrats Need to take a page from the president Donald Trumpis clean play book.
“It may be time for us to be a little more mean,” said the former vice-presidential, said in a speech at the annual congress of the South Carolina Democratic Party in Columbia, South Carolina. “It may be time for us to be a little more fierce because we have to relearn ourselves fiercely.”
“When it’s a tyrant like Donald Trump, you intimidate him,” added Walz.
Walz said that a more aggressive position on Trump will leave the Republicans on the defensive.
“What they don’t want to do is stand up and go back with someone who calls (Trump),” he said.
The governor also had a few words of choice for his democratic colleagues during a separate address during another conference of the State Party in Anaheim, California SATURDAY.
Recognizing that he may be “the last person to give conferences” the party on losses given his vice-president and the former vice-president Kamala Harris“ The loss against Trump and vice-president Jd vanceWalz said that a political researcher had recently said that the Democrats behaved like “a deer in car headlights” after the electronics.
“You see the car coming to you, but you go ahead and you hold it and you have still hit,” he added. “No one votes for Roadkill.”
Walz continued to say that the Democrats had “distant from our northern star” by not persuading the voters that they are champions of the working class. Consequently, “we have lost against a billionaire of Grif who gives tax reductions to his billionaire Grif friends.”
While the Governor of Minnesota did not give any clear indication that he is considering his own race for the presidency in 2028, he declared The New Yorker In an appearance in podcast in March, he would certainly “consider” the possibility if he thought that “I could offer something”.
While the Democrats remain divided as to who could be best placed to challenge Trump in three years, Walz remained firmly in the spotlight in the months which followed a function of Trump, at the head of a series of town halls across the country as well as to speak during events in a number of Republican Districts where the Democrats lost with a thin margin last year.