Tim Walz Urges Democrats To ‘Push Back’ On Trump’s ‘Bullying’: ‘This Is A Weak, Cruel, Man’

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00:00So look, it's a bit old school in this and I'm doing some soul searching and I was the guy who

00:06was there during this last one, but I'm convinced there's an appetite out there for this style of

00:12governing, this idea of competency, this idea of compassion, this idea of being able to get

00:19things done. When you poll people, they love our policies, but they can't love those policies if

00:25we don't enact them. And if we don't elect Democrats, we don't get a chance to do it. So this is not a

00:30chicken and the egg type of thing. You need to elect people who are in it for the right reasons,

00:35who want to improve people's lives, who are willing to do the work and build the coalition behind them

00:40with a strong party unit, strong county units, strong democratic infrastructure to get those

00:47folks work. And look, the thing we have to do is we have to get, we have to get past this thing

00:53that I saw recently that apparently the Democrats got together and hired a bunch of people and they

01:01went into with the hotel to discuss how we could best message to people, how we could come up with

01:10calibrate our words that we're using. That's how we got into this damn mess. That's because we're

01:18really cautious. And look, I know all of you in here. We say stuff like, oh, you know, we have,

01:25because we believe it. And we're kind people and compassionate. We have to fight food insecurity.

01:32You're right. But just say we have to fight kids going hungry in the richest country in the world.

01:38Just tell, tell people where they're at. And, and don't be afraid and stay away from the poll tested

01:45things that are out there. Because what Republicans, what Republicans understood was is they identified

01:52the problem with people and they got people thinking that they were with them like Donald

01:56Trump. What the hell does he know about somebody in South Carolina struggling to make ends meet?

02:01Almost nothing. But people believe that. Because what I have to think about is we've got to have

02:08people know that we're actually listening to them, that we're actually hearing what they're saying.

02:12And then I'm just going to say this because it seems so simple. And I don't do it. We've got to

02:17show the guts that we're willing to. I feel like there's folks that aren't willing to say the things

02:23necessary because they might be worried they might not get reelected if they say that.

02:27I'm not going to say that. And I, I, I don't think any of us can. I'm getting called out on this

02:33because I called Donald Trump a wannabe dictator. It's because he is. It's because he is.

02:40Oh, the governor's being mean and the governor's speaking out on that. Well, maybe it's time for

02:49us to be a little meaner. Maybe it's time for us to be a little more fierce

02:52because we have to ferociously push back on this. And again, I'll speak to my teacher colleagues in

03:02here. The thing that bothers a teacher more than anything is to watch a bully, to watch this bully

03:08and to stop it. And when it's a child, you talk to them and you tell them why bullying's wrong.

03:14But when it's adult like Donald Trump, you bully the shit out of him back. You push back.

03:19You make sure they know it's not there because at heart, at heart, this is a weak, cruel man that

03:29takes it out and punches down on people. What they don't want to do is stand toe to toe and punch

03:35back with someone who's calling them out for what they do. Who's being there.

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