Democrat Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said Monday that former Vice President Kamala Harris picked him as her running mate to “code talk to white guys.”
Walz said during a Harvard Kennedy School forum that he was the “permission structure” for white males in rural areas to vote for the Democratic ticket. He admitted that his role on the campaign failed to procure the necessary male votes, who cast their ballot for President Donald Trump in record numbers.
“I also was on the ticket, quite honestly, because I could code talk to white guys watching football, fixing their truck, doing that, then I could put them at ease. I was the permission structure to say you can do this and vote for this, and you look across those swing states, with the exception of Minnesota, we didn’t get enough of those votes.”
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The former vice presidential candidate claimed that Harris was one of the most qualified candidates ever, and said that history will decide whether voters made the right decision in the November election.
Harris significantly trailed Trump among white, male voters, as she received only 38% of the vote among that demographic, while 60% voted for Trump, according to an NBC News exit poll. The president also garnered 54% of the vote among Latino men, while Harris received 44% of the vote.
The Harris campaign attempted to paint Walz as the down-to-earth Midwesterner who is passionate about hunting and football. However, footage showed the Minnesota governor struggling to load his firearm and saying aloud that its kick hurt his shoulder.
In addition, an organization called “White Dudes for Harris” urged white males to prevent Trump from bullying them into supporting “a hateful and divisive ideology.”
Walz also received widespread criticism from the public for misstating a common football term, despite being branded as the relatable football coach. While playing a Madden game with Democrat New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Walz said they could “run a mean pick 6,” referring to an interception returned for a touchdown.
Harris reportedly picked Walz because his background would appeal to the industrial “Blue Wall” states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania,” Politico reported in August. Many congressional Democrats at the time viewed Walz as someone who could effectively reach voters in “flyover country” because of his own past experience representing such an area in the House.
The former vice presidential candidate supported and enacted far-left policies as governor, including adding tampons to boys’ bathrooms in schools, allowing the state to take away custody of children from parents who oppose sex-change surgeries, and turning his state into a safe haven for non-residents seeking abortion.
Maryland-based Democratic strategist Len Foxwell told the Daily Caller News Foundation in November that the campaign put Walz in “canned and staged rural settings that made him look both uncomfortable and inauthentic.” Adolph Mongo, a Democratic strategist in Michigan, said Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro or Democratic North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper would have been better options.
Trump, who garnered 55% of the overall male vote, appealed to male voters in part by appearing on podcasts such as “The Joe Rogan Experience” and “This Past Weekend” at the behest of his 18-year-old son, Barron. Latino voters, a demographic who reliably voted Democrat in the past, supported Trump in historic numbers, largely due to the economy and immigration.
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