Kamala Harris got this rude awakening about making Tim Walz her running mate
Kamala Harris finally picked a running mate.
But right off the bat, she got some bad news.
And Kamala Harris got this rude awakening about making Tim Walz her running mate.
Tim Walz won’t help Harris with working-class voters
Vice President Kamala Harris picked Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D) after the Democrat Party’s pro-Hamas wing vetoed Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro (D) over his Jewish faith.
Democrats figured Walz’s Minnesota background, previous career as a football coach, and military service would brand him as a cultural compatriot of the white working-class voters in the Midwest.
Former President Donald Trump courted them to turn blue wall states Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania red in 2016 and who were drifting back to the Republican column this year.
But MSNBC’s data cruncher Steve Kornacki revealed that Harris made a bad bet.
Kornacki looked at the numbers from Walz’s Gubernatorial race in the 2022 Midterm Elections and found he ran just as poor run rural, working-class counties as Hillary Clinton or President Joe Biden.
“Let’s take a look here at how Tim Walz did — this is the 2022 governor’s race in Minnesota. Now, he was reelected, you can see here by an eight-point margin. But the key is when you look at Minnesota and you look for those areas I’m describing where the Democrats have been losing ground in Wisconsin and Michigan and PA,” Kornacki began.
Kornacki picked one bell weather county in Minnesota that looked similar to the types of communities that will decide who carries the Rust Belt states.
And he found that Walz had just as little appeal as any other Democrat.
“This is Stearns County, this is in greater Minnesota, this is similar to a lot of the terrain you see in Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Walz lost this by 23 points. How does that compare to Joe Biden in 2020? Joe Biden lost the same county by 23 points. How does that compare to Hillary Clinton in 2016? Hillary Clinton lost it by 28 points,” Kornacki added.
Democrats still have room to fall
Former President Barack Obama won 43 percent of the working-class vote in 2012.
Obama’s strength with white working-class voters – these Americans couldn’t identify at all with private equity maven and Massachusetts RINO Mitt Romney – was key to his victory that year.
But Democrats have been in freefall in rural America ever since as their woke, pro-open borders agenda alienated voters.
Kornacki warned Democrats that if they thought Walz was a silver bullet for these problems they have another thing coming.
“I’m showing you one, this is a stand-in for dozens of counties in Minnesota where you saw the same thing with large rural populations, blue-collar white populations, where Obama in some of them he was winning, others he was holding his own just a dozen years ago, this is where Democrats have lost ground. And Walz in 2022, he didn’t gain any ground that the Democrats had lost,” Kornacki added.
Kornacki wrapped up by saying the numbers showed that Walz’s winning coalition resembled Joe Biden so if Democrats thought he held some sort of magic appeal to try and hold down Trump’s margins with white working-class voters they had another thing coming.
“Look at his electoral history, Tim Walz’s in 2022, and the idea that he’s got this automatic appeal with these small town areas in those three key battleground states, you don’t see it in what he actually did on the ballot in 2022,” Kornacki concluded.
