by Frank Holmes, reporter
He failed miserably in his last election, repeatedly humiliated himself in online videos, and left the public eye with 40 percent of Americans disapproving of him.
Still, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz thinks he has what it takes to win the White House in 2028.
When an interviewer asked the much-mocked Democratic vice presidential candidate if he would throw his hands in the air for a 2028 presidential bid, Walz answered, “If I feel I can serve, I will.”
“If I think I could offer something…I would certainly consider that,” Walz told interviewer David Remnick of The New Yorker Radio Hour.
At times, the two-term Minnesota governor seemed ambivalent about a presidential bid of his own. “I’m also, though, not arrogant enough to believe there’s a lot of people that can do this,” said Walz. “I certainly wouldn’t be arrogant enough to think that it needs to be me.”
But, Walz explained, he shared his reticence with a friend, who told him, “Never turn down a job you haven’t been offered.”
Now, Walz is ready for the dance.
“If the circumstances are right” and Walz is convinced he “has the right skill set for the moment…I’ll do it,” he said.
A big part of his motivation seems to be pure revenge.
Walz admitted he still gets burned up over losing the 2024 election to Donald Trump—and getting owned in the vice presidential debate by J.D. Vance.
“I still struggle with it,” Walz admitted, although he claimed his personal disappointment is really just righteous anger over Trump policies, like supposed “Medicaid cuts and seeing “LGBTQ folks being demonized. When I see some of this happening, that’s what weighs on me personally.”
Trump is the most pro-gay Republican in history, has posed with the rainbow flag and appointed numerous gay people to top-ranking positions, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. Walz, who has a flamboyant style, didn’t explain why anti-gay rhetoric would affect him so “personally.”
But if he runs, Walz won’t pull any punches.
“I’ll do whatever it takes,” said Walz.
Actually, Walz already seems partly resigned to losing. He told Remnick, “If nationally, people are like, ‘Dude we tried you, and look how that worked out,’ I’m good with that.”
Then again, if Walz decides to run for his party’s highest office, he might just have the inside track.
The DNC just elected a new chairman: Ken Martin, who has served a whopping seven terms as the chair of Democratic Party in the state of Minnesota. (Technically, it’s the Democratic-Farm-Labor Party in the Land of 10,000 Lakes.
Conservatives laughed their heads off at the possibility of a Republican going man-to-man against Tim Walz.
“There’s a good chance he’ll run, yet another reminder that having the self-awareness of a primordial jellyfish is a prerequisite for being a national Democratic figure,” wrote John Loftus of the Daily Caller. “Walz would find more success selling organic tampons to men who’ve undergone sex changes or becoming a hunting tour guide in his home state than taking a crack at 2028.”
Democrats couldn’t get worked up about a Tim Walz candidacy, either.
“What he showed on the campaign trail was that he was kind of weak. He is very liberal, and he’s going to have to defend the Biden-Harris ticket that he served on,” said Democrat Dan Turrentine.
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The only Democrat who might look forward to Tim Walz 2028 is his former running mate, Kamala Harris, who is also considering a second presidential campaign in three years.
Kamala “might be excited by the prospect of a Walz presidential campaign, owing to the fact that the Minnesota governor is almost as bad of a candidate as she is,” wrote Loftus.
But Democrats are in disarray, looking desperately for a candidate to undo the America First policies President Trump is implementing, as he tears down four years of radical liberalism…and they aren’t finding a candidate to fit the bill.
Unsuccessful 2024 presidential candidate Kamala Harris leads the field with a modest 36 percent support just four months after the election.
Former South Bend mayor and Biden Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg squeaked into second place with 10 percent.
But then Tim Walz ranks third at nine percent, nipping at Buttigieg’s heels.
All the also-rans got single digits, including California Gov. Gavin Newsom (six percent), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York (at five percent),Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (four percent). Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (three percent), and far-Left Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas (two percent).
Billionaire Mark Cuban actually polls one point higher than Crockett in the poll, which was taken by Echelon Insights.
Most polls show Harris in first place, followed by Buttigieg in a distant second, according to the polls compiled by the website FiveThirtyEight.
“This is absolutely crazy. This is a disaster for Democrats,” conservative commentator Emily Jashinsky, UnHerd Washington DC correspondent, told Sky News Australia. “They’ve got nothing right now if these are their best options.”
“Can any one of them pass the Joe Rogan test?” she asked. “Kamala Harris obviously didn’t even try.”
But there are hints Kamala Harris plans to run a second race in 2028. She recently set up an entity in California called Pioneer49 LLC, which her spokespeople described as “an entity to assist the former vice president.” But “Pioneer” was Kamala Harris’ Secret Service nickname—something many took as a sign Harris intends to return to the Oval Office.
But insiders have said Democratic leaders have little interest in another Harris-Walz disaster in 2028.
Democratic National Committee (DNC) official Alex Hoffman went to the Democratic National Convention’s Winter Meeting last month and found zero support for giving the 2024 presidential burnout a second bite at the apple.
Harris spoke by video link and got a round of hearty applause…but Hoffman said that’s only because the audience was just “a lot of activists and volunteers.”
“I don’t think there’s a single one of them who was saying that Kamala Harris is the leader of the party, nor should she run again. I mean, I don’t think I found a single person who thought that was a good idea for us. Myself included,” Hoffman told Puck News reporter Tara Palmeri on her podcast Somebody’s Gotta Win. “I don’t think that’s a good idea in any way, shape, or form.”
If Democrats do not want Kamala Harris as their frontrunner, they need to look to other candidates—and that’s what gives Tim Walz hope.
In the unlikely event Walz wins the nomination, he would need a running mate, and candidates often select another candidate who did well in the primaries.
In 2028, will Tim Walz select Kamala Harris as his vice presidential nominee?