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Former vice presidential nominee Tim Walz criticized Trump for economic chaos while taking personal responsibility for the situation during an MSNBC interview.

“We wouldn’t be in this mess if we’d have won the election — and we didn’t,” Walz told Chris Hayes. He called Trump the “worst possible business executive” and praised the Wall Street Journal’s editorial criticizing Trump’s tariff war.

Walz emphasized Democrats must offer something better, not just criticize Trump. Recently, he acknowledged a leadership void in the Democratic Party and admitted spending too much time combatting Trump’s false claims about immigrants.

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    22 hours ago

    Instead of frittering away the last few months of his presidential term, Biden should have just resigned and allowed Harris to take over his role. She could have pivoted way to the left without having to undermine Biden’s agenda and that would have really sent a clearer message to the democratic base.

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      15 hours ago

      honestly that may have helped strategically, i don’t think biden was “out the door” by that point, but it very well may have been a good look and given some needed press time to harris.

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      19 hours ago

      If voting patterns of America ever showed something consistently, it is the fact that shifting to the left in any sense never works. You can sometimes entice the public with enough vigor so they don’t focus on your politics, but outside of very rare cases, shifting to the right consistently brings some votes, and shifting to the left consistently brings loses.
      And no amount of social media posts was able to change it weirdly enough.
      It might have something to do with consistent anti-voting narrative of a lot of the vocal leftists, coupled with their bafflement that they consistently don’t get a desired outcome.

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        15 hours ago

        If voting patterns of America ever showed something consistently, it is the fact that shifting to the left in any sense never works.

        Sounds like a great excuse to only move right.

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            11 hours ago

            I did vote. For harris.

            Your party responds to all sensory input by moving right and punching left. You assume anyone who has a problem with that must be a nonvoter.

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        14 hours ago

        That’s ridiculous. Kamala appealed right and she got fewer votes. We abstained and let Trump win to show her that.

        In 2028, Obama is gonna have to appeal to the left in order to win against Trump.

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        15 hours ago

        It might have something to do with consistent anti-voting narrative of a lot of the vocal leftists, coupled with their bafflement that they consistently don’t get a desired outcome.

        i think its primarily age demographics, and the fact that the voter base is stupid, i.e. votes for the wrong people.