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Tim Walz to launch national tour of town halls in Republican House districts

www.cnn.com /2025/03/12/politics/tim-walz-national-tour-town-halls/index.html

Summary

Minnesota Governor and former VP candidate Tim Walz is launching a town hall tour in Republican-held districts where representatives have stopped holding public events.

Starting in Iowa and Nebraska, he plans stops in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Ohio. Walz says he wants to amplify voter concerns about the Trump administration and Republican policies.

He denies using the tour to prepare for a national run, instead framing it as a way to keep Democrats engaged post-election.

His team has received hundreds of invitations from local leaders.

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Good shit, I like it.

I love Tim Walz as the anti-Trump. He has lots of experience as well as a great example of a true public servant. He isn't rich and relies on the decades of public service he complete for his livelihood. As both a veteran and former public educator he can talk about how the cuts to the VA and Education departments are hurting everyone with some personal authority. Minnesota under his leadership got some massive progressive wins and minimized losses in 2024. Most importantly he looks like a Trump voter which apparently is needed for those people. Republicans are going full white male identity politics and he fits the bill.
- I would absolutely vote for him for president. I like Minnesota Progressives anyway, and he also possesses that natural trustworthiness that appeals to rurals that are going to be brutalized by MAGA policies over the next few years.
  Of course, it only matters if we can have fair, cheat-free elections, or even have elections at all.
  
  I'll vote any dem in the general but I think Walz is a terrible candidate in the primaries.
  We've already seen appealing to the conservatives fail in the general miserably, let's not pick that candidate.
- He's also just a really nice guy and from what I can tell a great dad. That on its own is practically all the qualifications I need from a politician. I'd rather have a good-hearted idiot than a black-hearted genius (or idiot... which we currently have in charge).
  
  I think the goofy dad demeanor is truly authentic and is disarming enough to get people to like him. Also I really enjoy his fisher stories where he tells the truth but makes it a little bigger or tuned to the audience. Since truth does not seem to matter anymore why not bend it a little bit
- I really wish he had been the candidate in 24. There would have been a good chance of him winning.
  
  Well we can always hope for 2028.

This is the right move.
If they won't face their constituents, get someone up there to face them and meet the people where they are to get some change in motion.
- As a Minnesotan, I'm worried this will alienate him from the state constituency and we'll lose him (and then he'll lose the presidential election cause Minnesota luck)

This is the way.
I am on the email distro for Tom Emmer from Minnesota just to keep an eye on what narratives are being pushed, and Republicans are already starting to target Walz with a slow drip of propaganda in these districts. This is what he sent out a few days ago:
Minnesota’s Feeding Our Future scandal, the largest COVID-19 fraud scheme in the country, stole more than $250 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service. Instead of serving hungry children, this money was used to purchase real estate overseas, luxury vehicles, planes and boats. Tim Walz blamed this on a “culture of generosity” in our state. An independent audit compiled by the Office of the Legislative Auditor found that “inadequate” oversight and lack of action by the Walz Administration “created opportunities for fraud.”
As Tim Walz flails and feigns outrage over the more than $600 million in fraud that has occurred on his watch, Republicans in Washington, D.C., are doing what Walz has failed to do: ensure these criminals and fraudsters face justic.
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Minnesotans deserve answers as to how their tax dollars were allowed to be stolen and squandered due to the incompetent policies of Tim Walz, and these criminals deserve to face justice. Rest assured, Republicans in Washington, D.C., will continue to demand accountability until each of these alleged fraudsters is convicted for their crimes.
There will be weekly emails like this now that Biden is no longer a target. Walz needs to set a narrative with these people because Republicans are great at seizing the narrative.
- I love how they talk about all this fraud and criminal activity, and yet has anything actually been found?
  I mean don't get me wrong, our government gets fleeced in a lot of ways, but it's usually through government contracts to private companies, not the agencies themselves.
- Here are some things that Reagan had no control over whatever.
  Before he became President a Polish labor Union, Solidarity, began tearing away at the myth of the "workers' state." Pope John Paul II began speaking out against Communism. The soviets invasion of Afghanistan became a quagmire.
  Chernobyl nuclear disaster happened while Reagan was President. Three Soviet leaders died within three years.
  The final nail in the coffin was when hardliners staged a coup against reformer Gorbachev and the Soviet citizens went to the streets to protest.
  Somehow, we've been fed the lie that "Reagan destroyed the USSR and won the Cold War."
  
  The Soviet war in Afghanistan didn’t help them much either. Though Reagan did have some influence there by selling weapons to the Mujahadeen, a move which had no repercussions /s
  
  The central party stops financing outside accounts in 1967 which begins a decline in the USSR’s ability to purchase necessary goods that are not made within the Warsaw pact didn’t help.
  The Afghan war and the drop in the price of oil are also substantial factors in the decline.
- I see they are trying to tie Tim Walz to Feed our Futures. I don't know if it is going to work but it is expected.
  If you are following the trial of Aimee Bock its pretty obvious that the way the law was written was suppose to give our food aid fast with checking afterwards. In the middle of global pandemic whether this a good idea or not is debatable but I think it was. Also it was a large operation which sued to keep itself open. If you are interested I recommend the Sahan Journal which has been doing some great coverage.

…. Is anyone dealing with the legitimacy of the last election and the next one? It doesn’t matter what the citizens vote for if their vote isn’t counted….
- We don't have the evidence really but I think the "rigging" has mostly been in the form of disenfranchisement -- making it hard for those most likely to vote Democratic. If we can flip the tables and get rural, traditionally Republican, counties to go blue then I don't think the GOP is prepared to counter that.
  
  He literally admitted a few days ago on video.
- AOC's district leaned way more heavily towards Trump. Either they cheated literally everywhere or the results were valid.
  There was a misleading post about "bullet ballots", but if you looked into the numbers they didn't check out.
  
  If you look into bullet ballots there are outliers that need to be investigated but weren’t. Not to mention Trump has admitted to manipulating the votes several times, even within the last couple of days. It’s on video.
  
  AOC's district leaned way more heavily towards Trump. Either they cheated literally everywhere or the results were valid.
  This logic makes no sense... Those are obviously not the only two possibilities there.
  
  Trump straight up said they rigged it like a day or two ago.
  
  There's enough questionable and suspect evidence that an investigation is warranted. If nothing else, it will put the question to rest. The American people deserve a through investigation.
- How much damage to any future elections has this administration already done?
- Nope! But, who can? Not the broken government. It'll be on the citizens to stop waiting for a savior.

"What's the move Tim?"
"I'm going to pander to the right even harder."
"Excellent, not only will this definitely shift a bunch of trump supporters to our side, it will rally moderate and left leaning voters to us when they realize how brilliant of a strategy it is to mirror our opposition! 2028 is a lock!"
- That's absolutely not what he's doing jfc
  
  Could you please explain what he is doing then? Because my impression after reading the article was that Walz is focusing on right wing voters, and not on the other ~70% of Americans. I'm not trying to be divisive. To me this looks like a continuation of the Democrats strategy over the last 10 years of pandering to the center. Which clearly hasn't worked. So what am I not seeing?

And nothing was learned I see.
- Unpack that one for me, champ.
  Is this the nose of the “blue maga” diatribe poking out from behind the corner?
- Elaborate?
  
  Remember this in 4 years. Tim walz could save the economy, Legalize slavery, take away woman's rights to vote, make the nation kneel before white Jesus and he wouldn't get a single Republican voter to switch sides and vote Democrat or independent. It's a waste of time, energy and money. The only thing he could do is get that magic (R) next to his name on the ballot.
  
  Not OP, but it appears Democrats are going to take the "high road" and campaign like it’s the 1950s. Again. In person, "addressing voter concerns," focusing on policy.
  This is how you become president: Lie, loudly, frequently, through your teeth on social media. And shill every influencer you can to amplify it, like a pyramid scheme. That’s how you reach people: through their phones, hacking the engagement system, shamelessly. And Dems are going to keep losing until they figure that out or their party is outlawed.

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