Minnesota Governor Tim Walz made an appearance at the Harvard Kennedy School this week and told people that he was picked to be Kamala Harris’ running mate because he could ‘code talk’ to white guys.
That strategy didn’t work out too well for the Harris campaign, did it? Democrats lost men of all races by a wide margin. In fact, the Democratic party is struggling to figure out how to win back male voters who have deserted them in record numbers.
Tim Walz went on to compliment Harris as one of the most qualified candidate to ever run for president, showing just how out of touch he really is.
The New York Post reports:
Tim Walz says Harris picked him for VP to ‘code talk to white guys’
Former Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz continued a self-described “listening tour” across the country at a Harvard Kennedy School forum on Monday night, ruling out a 2028 presidential bid and revealing why former Vice President Kamala Harris chose him as her running mate.
Walz said Harris chose him, in part, because “I could code talk to white guys watching football, fixing their truck” and “put them at ease.” The Minnesota governor described himself as the “permission structure” for white men from rural America to vote for Democrats.
“I think I’ll give you pretty good stuff, but I’ll also give you 10% problematic,” Walz added when pushed by moderator Brittany Shepherd, an ABC News national political reporter, about why he didn’t take that message to cable news to reach a larger audience. Walz laughed off criticism over inconsistencies in his background on the 2024 campaign trail, describing himself as a “knucklehead.”
Walz told CNN’s Jake Tapper earlier this month that he was considering a third bid for Minnesota governor but was not thinking about running for president in 2028. When asked by Shepherd to explain, Walz said the Democratic Party should run a collective 2028 presidential campaign.
Here’s the video:
WALZ: I was picked for Kamala’s VP so “I could code talk to white guys.”
“I was the permission structure to say, look, you can vote for this.”
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) April 30, 2025
It’s amazing that this person tried to accuse JD Vance and Trump of being weird. Walz has the market cornered on weirdness.
