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Former vice presidential nominee Tim Walz criticized Trump for economic chaos while taking personal responsibility for the situation during an MSNBC interview.

“We wouldn’t be in this mess if we’d have won the election — and we didn’t,” Walz told Chris Hayes. He called Trump the “worst possible business executive” and praised the Wall Street Journal’s editorial criticizing Trump’s tariff war.

Walz emphasized Democrats must offer something better, not just criticize Trump. Recently, he acknowledged a leadership void in the Democratic Party and admitted spending too much time combatting Trump’s false claims about immigrants.

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      16 hours ago

      If biden hadn’t been such a mildewy dishrag of a president, his VP might have won. Now insult me more since it’s all centrists do when people expect better of them.

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        And again this is about you hating Biden. Which is fine, hate him. But how long are you going to blame everything on him like a petulant child?

        Next week when you stub your toe you’re going to blame him?

        His Vice President chose to run for office. She chose the platform that she chose to run with. It wasn’t Joe Biden’s platform it wasn’t even loosely tangential to Joe Biden’s platform. But it’s his fault in your eyes because you feel that she stole his platform…

        Go back and reread my anecdote about the police. You made it even more relevant.

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          16 hours ago

          And again this is about you hating Biden. Which is fine, hate him. But how long are you going to blame everything on him like a petulant child?

          When he bears responsibility, I will blame him. If that pisses off his worshipers, good. Running as a continuation of biden’s unpopular presidency lost.

          His Vice President chose to run for office. She chose the platform that she chose to run with. It wasn’t Joe Biden’s platform it wasn’t even loosely tangential to Joe Biden’s platform.

          What daylight existed between her and biden? Because the line I kept hearing whenever anyone suggested she move to his left on anything was that she was his VP and she couldn’t differ from him.

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            For like the third time, I have absolutely no love for Biden. I didn’t vote for him, I don’t like him.

            But this is just you acting like a petrol in child because you don’t like him and seemingly want to blame everything under the sun on him. If you don’t even have the wherewithal to identify that behavior in yourself then clearly you’re not a reasonable person.

            Biden didn’t choose her running strategy. He didn’t tell her to use his strategy. She’s a full grown fucking adult. You have to literally be a child to believe that your own behavior isn’t your own fault. And I mean that genuinely and sincerely. You’re acting like a child.

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              Biden didn’t choose her running strategy. He didn’t tell her to use his strategy. She’s a full grown fucking adult.

              You mean to tell me that everyone who said she couldn’t differ from him was lying?

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                6 hours ago

                I just want to point out, people like you are why we are where we are right now. Not being glib. Just pointing that out…

                So over the next four years while Republicans endeavor to roll us back to a time when blacks weren’t allowed to drink from the same water source as whites and Democrats are too spineless to stop them, I’ll be thinking of you. Someone so grossly incompetent as to pretend that a full grown woman who decided to run for President isn’t responsible for the platform she herself decided to run on and instead choose to blame that decision and behavior on someone else singularly because she, like all vice Presidential nominees, was expected (while currently sitting) to back the President publicly as to not split the party loyalty.

                She wasn’t instructed on what platform to run on. She was told she had prior obligations to the POTUS as his VP and she was reminded of that.