9mo ago

Tim Walz loses home county to Trump

Summary

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, Kamala Harris’s running mate, suffered a personal setback in the 2024 election as he lost his home county, Blue Earth, to President-elect Donald Trump.

Trump won 49.6% of the vote there, while Harris received 48.3%, marking a symbolic defeat for Walz, who built his political career in the area.

Walz, a former teacher and congressman known for his moderate stance, had previously turned a Republican seat Democratic and won Minnesota’s governorship by a large margin in 2018.

His campaign faced challenges, including scrutiny over past statements about military service, which the Trump campaign leveraged as a “Stolen Valor” issue.

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9mo ago

Tim Walz lost his home county to Trump.

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Fucking brutal.
I mean wow. The hometown hero plays before an empty arena.
- The hits really keep coming today
  I'm not even lying yall I just got home and cried for a while sitting in the work van
  I also looked at some guns today
  This is rough
  Edit: I feel I should make it clear, I'm not a risk to myself or anyone, I'm just fucking terrified
  
  We should have just turned the convention into a mini-primary, like Obama wanted. Maybe this was the reason why he was so hesitant to endorse Kamala. He wanted her to earn it because thats how you get people to vote for you.
  Jesus christ someone couldn't have just pushed Biden down some stairs in like, February? Not like a bunch, but maybe 3-4? Just enough for us to have had some kind of testing of the candidates?
  
  It's a good idea to arm yourself. Protect yourself and your own.
- This just raises the question for me about electronic voting machines. I know that 12 states are using machines with no paper trail, I wanna know if my suspicion that Wisconsin may be one of those is correct.
  
  You just gotta deal with the reality that people wanted trump.
  
  It's not
how is it possible for every piece of news to keep getting worse
- This isn't even news. Walz is from a deeply red area of the state. There was basically a 0% chance they went blue.
  
  Yeah, home advantage is less and less relevant every year. Once upon a time this would be news, but it's a new era and he wasn't even the presidential candidate.
- I suggest you buckle up.
If people knew what Blue Earth is like, this wouldn't be surprising.
- Yep, sure we’ve got Mankato, but there’s a reason he was the first democrat elected to congress in forever from CD 1.
  
  Yep I never thought for a second Harris-Walz would've won that district from the moment he was selected
- Non US here can you give a recap?
  
  The entire southeastern corner of Minnesota is deeply conservative. As someone who grew up in Fillmore county, the only surprise from my state is that Olmsted county went blue
I'm really wondering if there's been election interference from GOP agents. Republicans are known for projecting, so I wouldn't be surprised.
- This isn't election interference. Wals is from a very red county. This wasn't news for anyone from MN. It was just an easy headline.
  It would have been far more newsworthy if they had voted for him.
- There was plenty of misinformation peddled by foreign actors(edit: and domestic ones tbh). Call that what you will
- We're morons manipulated into voting against their interests, securing the election for Trump? Absolutely. Unfortunately though, he won the votes fair and square. Democrats sucked at messaging, voters sucked at being decent fucking humans. Now we all get to enjoy the consequences of their psychopathy.
- Bro. The left sat this one out. What is it, 17 million votes we were short of Biden’s victory? That’s pathetic.
Fat worthless failure
Down vote all you want. They fucked up and now we are going to die.
- This is the fault of the electorate. Full stop.
  
  Everyone is at fault. People said they wouldn't vote with inaction in Gaza. They chose not to take action, their fault. Those people didn't vote, expected, but dumb, so their fault, too. Blaming JUST the people is a sure fire way to not correct course for the next election. Bernie has the right stance on this, as usual.
  
  Even then, even if she won, there are still the same amount of people who are like: fat racist fascist? Sounds fantastic, i'll build my personality around that guy

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