‘We Lost Our Way’: Gov. Tim Walz Discusses Why Democrats Lost The 2024 Election

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00:00Now look, this is the place where I got to say we got to be honest with ourselves.

00:05We're in this mess.

00:06We know who Trump is.

00:07He told us and he does it every day.

00:09But we're in this mess too because we lost our way.

00:12We lost our way a bit as a party.

00:14And I'll tell you, I get it, all of you sitting there is.

00:17This dude's the last guy I want to tell us about we lost our way.

00:20You're the guy who lost.

00:23But I'll tell you what, none of us, none of us can afford to shy away right now from asking

00:29the hard questions and doing the things we need to do to fix it so that we win elections.

00:36When we lose elections, people's lives are put at risk.

00:39This is not a game.

00:40This is not yay, yay, our team wins.

00:43This is people's lives at stake.

00:49So here's what I've come to terms with.

00:51Here's what I've come to terms with.

00:53The party, the party that, my party, the party that was there to lift my family up when my

00:59dad dies and my mom's got two kids staying at home.

01:03The Democratic Party that was the party of the working class, we lost a big chunk of

01:08the working class in this last election.

01:11And the thing that bothers me to no end and drives me to do something about it, we didn't

01:18just lose the working class.

01:21We lost the working class to a billionaire who gives tax cuts to other billionaires.

01:31This last election, you could hear the primal scream of folks.

01:34Working class folks were in pain.

01:36They were yelling from the top of their lungs, do something.

01:40Do something.

01:41The system's not fair.

01:42You can't own a home.

01:43I can't get healthcare, I'm worried about my kids, I'm worried about gun violence.

01:50And for all of the boneheaded, self-serving, despicable crap that Donald Trump does, that

01:57guy knows how to sniff out a problem.

01:59And he puts on one hell of a show pretending that he cares about those people.

02:04Now look, I hear a version of this everywhere I go.

02:07You know this.

02:08Well, I don't really like Trump, and I don't know if he's right.

02:14I don't even know what he's doing is going to make a difference, but damn it, he's willing

02:18to shake things up and give it a try.

02:21You hear it.

02:23What about us then?

02:25How do they do us?

02:26Well, Democrats, we have no shortage of good ideas.

02:30We talk about it all the time.

02:31You heard some of the things we did in Minnesota.

02:34But when we get into power, we haven't been able to get the stuff done.

02:38At least not the stuff that people actually care about and feel in their lives.

02:42You know this is true.

02:45Some of you here have knocked your damn fingers until they were bloody on doors and called people.

02:51It's terrible to pick up the phone and call somebody cold and say, I'm calling from the

02:54Democratic Party.

02:55Piss off!

02:56Or whatever they do.

02:57You've been there.

02:59You've done the work.

03:01But they don't see it transferring.

03:04And you have to keep going back and asking folks.

03:07The other day I saw this, I read about a Democrat down in Georgia.

03:11They asked this woman, simple question, describe the Democratic Party.

03:17This is a Democrat.

03:18This woman is a Democrat.

03:20And she said, a deer in the headlights.

03:22She said, it's like they see the car coming, but they just stand there and get run over by

03:27the damn thing anyway.

03:30That's a review of our party by someone who actually likes us.

03:34It's a damning indictment, but I think it's right on the money.

03:40The problem isn't just an existential threat politically.

03:45This isn't about winning elections.

03:48This is about what's demanded of us morally.

03:50Because we're fighting for working people.

03:55That's the DNA of the Democratic Party.

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