Glenn Garner
With two weeks until Election Day, Gov. Tim Walz is confident he and Vice President Kamala Harris can sway enough undecided voters.
Appearing Monday on The Daily Show, Walz told Jon Stewart he’s spoken to several Republicans on the campaign trail who “want to find a reason to not vote for Donald Trump” as they no longer feel represented by the MAGA party.
“Folks are still talking. And I know it’s hard to imagine, there’s a lot of folks who are still deciding what they’re gonna do,” he said.
“The folks I’m talk to, they’re probably — they are Republicans, and they say it,” noted Walz. “A Republican introduces me in Omaha, he said, ‘I can’t stand with this guy anymore. That’s not the party of Reagan. This isn’t freedom.’ Whatever it may be, it’s a lot of those folks that are trying to find permission to get off the MAGA stuff and move over. So, they’re still listening. They’re finding a way.”
Walz added, “For a lot of them, they’ve never crossed over that line. And you can say it about Liz Cheney and Dick Cheney and some of those that did show some courage to cross over. They don’t agree; these are folks that we’re told, ‘I’m historically Republican, I’m gonna vote Republican.’ But they don’t have a home anymore. and I think for a lot of cases, they hear the noise that’s out there. But that’s why I’m out there talking to them.
The Minnesota governor explained that he’s connected with many of those undecided voters on tax cuts for the middle class, home ownership and expanding home care for Medicare.
“These are folks that want to find a reason to not vote for Donald Trump. We need to give them that,” said Walz. “It is terrifying watching what they’re doing, but that’s all distraction, the Trump distraction. He is dangerous, it is serious. He’s not gonna do any manufacturing.”
Referencing a recent report that he “might be the poorest person to ever run for vice president,” Walz said that fact “surprisingly” gives him an appeal with many working class voters.
Walz’s appearance on The Daily Show comes as he prepares to head to Madison, Wisconsin to campaign with Barack Obama.