{"id":90088,"date":"2026-01-05T07:29:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T13:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=90088"},"modified":"2026-01-05T07:29:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T13:29:31","slug":"walzing-out-of-the-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=90088","title":{"rendered":"Walzing Out Of The Room"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I started hearing blips last week that Governor Walz was going to get defenestrated from the Governor&#8217;s race. \u00a0The big donors that run the DFL were worried he&#8217;s going to be a drag on the ticket. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It got a little more official last night:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 BREAKING:  Sources:  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovTimWalz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@govtimwalz<\/a> will make  announcement about his political future Mon.   He&#39;s likely to drop out of the 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/mngov?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#mngov<\/a> race.    <br><br>He met w\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenAmyKlobuchar?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SenAmyKlobuchar<\/a>  on Sun.  Full analysis in tmrw <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4zJJytH4Aw\">https:\/\/t.co\/4zJJytH4Aw<\/a>  + live on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wccoradio?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@wccoradio<\/a> at 6:20AM w\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vsawkar?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@vsawkar<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Blois Olson (@bloisolson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bloisolson\/status\/2008024634135126228?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 5, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Reports say Amy Klobuchar may get in the governor&#8217;s race.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is, of course pretty brilliant for the DFL. \u00a0 Rumor has it they want to run on an &#8220;Anti-Fraud&#8221; platform next year. \u00a0Klobuchar hasn&#8217;t been implicated &#8211; so she&#8217;ll make that a little less incongruous. \u00a0And if she loses, she keeps her Senate seat, and if she wins, Walz appoints her successor. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The only two risks? \u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The GOP getting its act together and running a well-funded, universally supported candidate that can deliver the right message with enough force to get past mid-Minnesotans Fudds and their attachment to two generations of the Klobuchar name, and<\/li>\n<li>The Feds bringing in a lot more indictments that make, er, other parts of the ticket squirm a little. \u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m thinking &#8220;B&#8221; is more likely, but I&#8217;ve love to be suprised.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Need any more wild cards next cycle?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[483,144,2,320,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fraud","category-governor","category-minnesota-politics","category-mndfl","category-mngop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90089,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90088\/revisions\/90089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}