Minnesota Governor and failed Vice Presidential candidate Tim Walz, in an interview that aired on Tuesday, apologized for his terrible debate performance against Vice President JD Vance in 2024, claiming he would “beat the sh*t out of him now if I could.”
“I would beat the sh*t out of him now if I could, and I would call that out!” Walz stammered after making excuses and admitting failure with his 2024 debate performance during an interview with Tim Miller on the Bulwark podcast.
During their first debate in October 2024, Walz said, “It was strange to me to be in the presence of someone, who I couldn’t see a tell on him when he lied,” and “I’m a terrible liar.”
The Gateway Pundit reported on Walz’s awkward blunders, including one where he called himself a knucklehead when asked why he lied about being in China during the Tiananmen Square massacre.
Walz also claimed that he’s “become friends with school shooters”— TWICE?
It was a disaster for Tim Walz. Not even the rest of the liberal moderators’ biased questions and fact-checks against Vance could save him.
But Walz now says he’s ready for a debate and would “beat the sh*t out of” Vance.
Perhaps we’ll see Walz throw his hat in the ring in 2028.
Miller: Particularly with JD Vance, you had to be on the debate stage with him. He’s the current Vice President. He shared a Stephen Miller Post this week calling Alex Pretti an assassin. He came to your state and lied about your law enforcement. You’ve got to look back about being on the debate stage with him and thinking, Man, you really maybe gave this person too much of the benefit of the doubt and were a little bit, you know, the part the assuming good faith was maybe a mistake with JD, Vance.
Walz: I’ll own it, but Tim, you’ve been around this long enough to know when you’re on a ticket, you take your orders. Look, I have agency on that, meaning I could have did this. But I am a good team player. And I will say this, I never kidded anybody about debates. I don’t like, get like, joy out of like, beating someone in this or whatever. And I said, the worst people, I think, in debates are teachers, where I try to find reconciliation. And I think he was well prepped. It was strange to me to be in the presence of someone, who I couldn’t see a tell on him when he lied. It was so— usually you can see it like with me, I’m like, Oh, I’m a terrible liar. I can’t, I’m a terrible poker player. And so I think the whole idea was, there is that— look, again, when they fact checked it, I think he had 38 misstatements. They said I had two. One of them was that Trump doesn’t pay taxes. I’ll stand by that.
But yes, I do, in retrospect, wise, I don’t know. And you and I both know this. How much does a vice presidential debate matter in this? But I live with it, because, look, don’t think I don’t. And I’ve said this before. I own this. I started talking about it in January, and I was out there, and I got some criticism about this. People asked me, What would you have done differently? Well, we would have won. And we didn’t, which means you do own some of that. I can’t just blame it all, you know, the electorate didn’t get it. There were things that weren’t there, and so part of that was me, but I know who I am. I’m really effective, and was really effective as a member of Congress because I was one of the more bipartisan members. So, this idea that I am more than willing to reach to find compromise, and I do see this as servant leadership, and I don’t see it as a sense of power. He was, he was good at that. And, I mean, it was— He’s smooth. I never claimed to do that, but I’m pretty effective, but I’ll take the criticism.
I would beat the sh*t out of him now if I could, and I would call that out! I mean, that’s just different. In verbally going at it. I could— my argument is much better. He’s making the case that housing prices are up because of immigration and that we should build on federal lands. It was such a crazy thing. But then when I watched him, I got sucked into that. If you remember, this was right in that moment of eating dogs and cats. I took that bait and thought that that was the argument of how outrageous it was. That was not the argument.
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