…It’s The Absence Of Coverup
By Mitch Berg
David Strom has a results of VP debate.
In short, I have revised my opinion about the debate. Not about what happened–I thought Vance was clearly better than Walz, but that it wouldn’t matter. Now I think it very well might, not because Vance won the debate but rather the manner in which Walz lost it.
Walz lost it by looking deranged at times and like a liar. The visuals mattered and Walz’s dancing around on his personal lies mattered even more.
So I was wrong…I think. The aftermath of the debate has the potential to be devastating to Tim Walz.
The ghosts of Richard Stockdale and Richard Nixon are calling back from the great beyond thanking Walz for making them no longer the easiest “presidential debate flop sweat” joke.
October 7th, 2024 at 6:35 am
I’m surprised that Walz even went on there, but Shannon Bream from Fox really nailed him during her interview of him.
October 7th, 2024 at 6:53 am
Asumming (God willing) Trump wins in November, what are the odds that Walz will run and be elected for another term as Governor?
I don’t think he will run.
He saw his odds of being re-elected to Congress melt away and wisely (if one could use that term) chose to lean on the Metro for his gobernatorial race.
My bet is that he will move to Washington and hope for a job there – or somewhere in the NGO/Industrial complex.
October 7th, 2024 at 6:55 am
You know that the day after the debate, in a basement somewhere in China, there was a guy strapped to a chair bleeding while the Party Chairman screamed at him: “HIM? That idiot is the guy you’ve been bragging about? The guy we spent YEARS carefully positioning and promoting and shielding until he would be just a heartbeat away from the presidency? HE’S our secret Manchurian candidate?”
October 7th, 2024 at 7:16 am
John, perhaps someone should flash the queen of diamonds at Walz just to see what happens.
October 7th, 2024 at 7:20 am
He saw his odds of being re-elected to Congress melt away
Greg, I genuinely don’t know, why would this be? He defeated a long-term Republican and was reelected 5 times. That seems like a pretty solid grip on that position.
October 7th, 2024 at 7:20 am
Oh yea! During Kommissar Kamala’s speech in Detroit on Friday, her teleprompter malfunctioned, followed shortly by her. She illustrated, again, that she is an empty suit and can’t think on her feet. America’s enemies are laughing their asses off and I’m sure that most of our allies, are face palming!
October 7th, 2024 at 7:29 am
About now would be a good time for Trump to start giving a list, during his speeches.
“On Day One, I will do these things . . . “
October 7th, 2024 at 8:01 am
Not quite so solid.
in 2014 Walz won with 54.2% of the vote – but his numbers were down -3.3 % from 2012.
In 2016 Walz won with 50.4% of the vote – but his numbers were down -3.8 from 2014.
In 2018, the Republicans took the seat with 50.1% of the vote.
In the last election, Brad Finstad won with 53.8% and the Democrat only pulled 42.3%
Minnesota’s 1st congressional district has been trending red for some time. Walz could see that.
October 7th, 2024 at 12:36 pm
As to the debate, the general consensus among the Daily Wire people is that Vance did what he was supposed to do. He didn’t act anything like that caricature the Left and the Media have tried to convince the American Public is true. In other words, JD Vance isn’t Trump’s rabid attack dog that is currently foaming at the mouth and should really be put down for the safety of the general public.
Meanwhile, over at The Dispatch, their general consensus is that by acting normal and not being MAGA’s attack dog, JD Vance may cost Trump votes from his most ardent supporters. I like some of the people at The Dispatch and I think it’s important to follow Conservatives that have neither gone all in on MAGA nor just become Democrats because they don’t like Trump, but that take really is up their with the dumbest takes they’ve ever given.
October 7th, 2024 at 12:42 pm
Minnesota’s 1st congressional district has been trending red for some time. Walz could see that.
And it was common knowledge that the 2020 reapportionment was going to take some of the bluer precincts of CD1 and move them to 2 and 3, to keep them more competitive for the DFL.
October 7th, 2024 at 1:04 pm
Regarding Walz and District 1, it’s also worth noting that he liked to act as if he were moderate in those days, an act he kept up until fairly recently. So his inability to express himself now is actually a little bit of a surprise–he has, albeit insincerely, done so before.
Regarding districts, Minnesota is not by any means the worst for gerrymandering, but it does strike me that both Minneapolis and St. Paul ought to be in one district, which would leave the suburbs to be a little more sane.
October 7th, 2024 at 2:21 pm
BB,
The issue with Minneapolis and St. Paul is why it would be really nice to have Republicans in control during the next redistricting. As Mitch said on his show Saturday, Minnesota will be losing a Congressional District. It’d be nice to be in charge of how that is updated. I’d rather make Ilhan Omar run against Betty McCollum than what the DFL will do is subsume as much of CD 6 into CDs 7 and 8 as possible and try and get rid of 1 of the Republicans in Congress. My family in St. Paul would happily vote for Omar these days.
October 7th, 2024 at 4:13 pm
My thought on the Twin Cities being one district is simply that their populations are about right for that, and birds of a feather ought to flock together. No sense in having knock down drag out fights when you can simply get good representation for a hopelessly demented group of people.