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.

  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    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.

    • dumples@midwest.social
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      3 hours ago

      He is definitely not an appealing to conservative candidate except for being white and not super young (He is 60).

      But look at what Minnesota did under his governorship was all simple none flashy midwestern progressive values. Free school lunches, trans refuge status, abortions rights into law (as well as a supreme court case), funding for schools and legal weed. He is a progressive just not very flashy about it.

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        2 hours ago

        He is literally appealing to the conservatives, as in he is going on a conservative district town hall tour to appeal to them directly.