Friends from around the country have asked me how Tim Walz could possibly think he could win a third term, with perhaps the worst record of any governor in American history, topped off with the $10 billion (my conservative estimate) Somali fraud. Simple, I would respond: he won’t say a word about his own record, and will run against President Trump.
Eventually, the national Democrats got worried that Walz was too damaged to pull off that strategy, so they ordered him out of the race after he had filed for re-election. They substituted Amy Klobuchar, supposedly their most popular politician, in his place. Different candidate, same strategy: Klobuchar won’t try to defend Walz’s record, but will run against Donald Trump.
Remember when Kamala Harris was on The View, the friendliest possible group of harpies, and one of them, trying to be helpful, asked how she would be different from Joe Biden? Biden, like Walz, was cashiered by the national Democrats. It should have been an easy question, but Harris was stumped. She couldn’t come up with a thing. I think that moment was when her doom was sealed.
Maybe a reporter will ask Klobuchar the same question: how will you be different from Tim Walz? Or, what has Walz done that you disagree with? Just kidding, of course. No reporter would dare to ask such a thing, and Amy will not expose herself to people–us, for example–who would.
Still, the question will be asked. Within hours (maybe minutes) after Klobuchar announced her run, Lisa Demuth, the Speaker of Minnesota’s House and one of the front-runners for the Republican nomination for governor, put up a web site saying that “Amy Klobuchar would be a third term of Tim Walz.”
Power Line readers may wonder: can it really work to run against President Trump? How can that possibly disguise a record of failure in every sphere?
Yes, it could work. President Trump is unpopular in Minnesota. This is a recent Survey USA poll:
That tells the story. Tim Walz is unpopular, deservedly so. But nowhere near as unpopular as Donald Trump. Why has Trump’s approval in Minnesota cratered? Because of the insurrection against the federal government that Democratic leaders like Tim Walz, Jacob Frey and Amy Klobuchar have sponsored.
Enmity toward the federal government and President Trump is at a white-hot level, as Walz has talked openly about being at war with the federal government, about calling out the National Guard to fight ICE, and about his actions paralleling those at Fort Sumter. This is crazy stuff, obviously, but if you pose the issue as Minnesota vs. the federal government, most Minnesotans will side with their state. Just as most Virginians sided with their state in 1861. Walz, Klobuchar and the other Minnesota Democrats knew that, and they supported the insurrection out of cynical political calculation.
So Klobuchar is the odds-on favorite to be elected governor in November. Still, I have my doubts. If Walz was yanked from the race because he was likely to lose, and Klobuchar fails to draw any distinction between herself and her predecessor, a failed buffoon, isn’t she vulnerable? If the Republicans nominate a strong candidate–and they have several possibilities, by my count–Minnesota voters may well opt for reality, as opposed to a ginned-up far-left narrative.
