Summary
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, Kamala Harris’ 2024 running mate, has suggested he may run for president in 2028.
Reflecting on the Democrats’ loss to Donald Trump and JD Vance, he admitted: “A large number of people did not believe we were fighting for them in the last election – and that’s the big disconnect.”
Walz said his life experience, rather than ambition, would guide his decision.
Though his VP campaign was marred by gaffes, he remains open to running if he feels prepared.
For wast majority of Americans capitalist Harris is actually rapid communist comrade Harris. For significant majority of registered voters her existence is a rampant leftist propane and seven steps too far.
USians are firmly on the rigth, and unless you fix that, all your exciting candidates will achieve jack shit.
You don’t seem like you really have a grasp on US politics.
If we look into who holds all the power, I kind of do actually. If your metric is whatever you read on Lemmy, then yeah, Americans are all very progressive and cool and gay. But 75% of them chose Trump, so it might be that they aren’t cool at all, and it’s just vocal minority in a particular bubble.
Yeah, you’re still wildly uniformed. Trump got voted in with less than 50% of the vote from something in the vicinity of a third of eligible voters.
That’s my point. 50% of third of eligible voters voted against fascism. Everyone else either actively voted for, or passively voted for by not participating, which is just as bad.
That’s just not how you count votes. It wouldn’t be an overwhelming rejection of fascism if 1% more voted for Harris.
And you still didn’t even get the number right, which kind of reinforces how you never actually knew the proportion.
That’s how you count supporters. If a person of voting age in 2024 looked into whatever is happening and decided that they don’t care if Trump wins, they are firmly in the camp of the enablers, and they are just as guilty as those who actively voted for.
I don’t know where you got your numbers, I don’t care and it doesn’t matter. 25% is the most cheritable number if we assume half of the eligible population voted. There is no open and easily available statistics on that, so it’s all estimations. If yours is correct, the numbers are even worse, so I don’t know why you’re insisting on that, but that’s again doesn’t matter.
What the fuck are you talking about, “there are no open statistics”? Of course there are. Do you think we just eyeball the votes? None of this is guesswork and all the numbers are easy to find.
About a third voted for him. I told you that already, but you’re so ignorant to American politics that you took that as a total turnout number. You clearly don’t even have the passing familiarity to ball park the number of voters, so you sure as shit don’t have any concept of what our non voters are like.
They’re not passive Trump supporters or misguided leftists taking a stand. They’re just some combination of ignorant, incurious, and too fucking stressed or lazy to make an effort to cast what is in many states a worthless vote. You’d fit right in with them.
They are? On the issues? Or are we going by how people label themselves?
They are, on the voting patterns, and that’s the only thing that matters in a democracy. They can think or talk whatever they want, but when it comes to choosing who will make all the decisions, they consistently chose rightwing candidates, often against their own stated interests.
Sometimes because they’re idiots who don’t know how their own country works, sometimes because they were lied to, but that doesn’t matter at all in the end. The vote of a dupped idiot just as valid.