Des Moines, Iowa (AP) – Minnesota Governor Tim Walz faced hundreds of Iowans on Friday and admitted that he did not have all the answers to problems with the country.
“If I did that, we weren’t in this damn chaos,” said Walz.
Walz is back on the way to speak to the voters, but he is no longer a vice presidential candidate. He is not a kind of candidate, at least not for the time being.
After the loss of election of the past year, Walz is resumed, national media is granted interviews and spoken to hundreds of the annual dinner of the Montana Democratic Party at the beginning of this month.
Now he starts in competitive congress districts, which represented by the Republicans, a tour of the town halls, which was launched by a post on social media, in response to the guidance of House Speaker Mike Johnson that GOP representative jumped out in town halls, and said demonstrations outside of them are the work of the “professional demonstrators”.
“During this time of chaos there is a responsibility in which chosen civil servants have to hear what people are irritated,” said Walz. “And I would argue that democratic civil servants should hear the original scream that comes from America and should do something.”
Walz said he was not there to personally attack the US representative Zach Nunn, to whose district the auditorium of the High School, which occupies almost 1,000 people on Friday. But Walz now asked now to answer questions publicly. The re -election in the 3rd congress district of Iowa won by about 4 percentage points in 2024, a margin of almost 16,000 voters.
The Iowa Democratic Party received Walz ‘call on Monday evening and went to work on Tuesday, said Paige Godden, the communication director of the state party.
The amount of ovation gave the amount. Many wore shirts with messages of political activism. A school teacher, a high -ranking senior and an employee of the VA Medical Center asked Walz questions about health care, financial facilitate and financing for veterans.
Mike Sugget from Pleasant Hill, east of the Moines, is a retired school teacher who said that he had taught now in the Junior High School. He is written to the legislator, but said that he received “can form letters”. Sugget said that Nunn was “too much coward” in order to appear.
“We would rather hear it from the people representing us,” said Sugget.
In an e -mail declaration to the Associated Press, Nunn said that he had held “hundreds of hearing sessions” to hear directly from Iowans and delivers the change “Iowans in November”.
“While out-of-state democrats have disguised donations as forums, we focus on real results,” he said.
Other Republican leaders in Iowa and Minnesota, including governor Kim Reynolds, criticized the visit and said that Walz should concentrate on his own state. Emily Tuttle, spokeswoman for the National Republican Campaign Committee, described it as “produced production”.
In 2023, Walz kept in Iowa as a replacement for the then President Joe Biden, floated through the state mass, collected donations for local democrats and kept the media availability to contrast bidges with the republican candidates.
He goes to Nebraska on Saturday, where he grew up, with preliminary stops to follow in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Ohio. The focus on neighbors and states in the middle west in the rust belt is no coincidence. Many of them are places where Walz did not visit last year’s shortened campaign after bidding has been switched off and space for Vice President Kamala Harris on the democratic ticket.
Walz ran for the Senate next year, but could be a candidate for the nomination of the President in 2028.
According to the result of 2024, Walz said that the Democrats “have to recognize” that some voters did not see any difference between the republican and the democratic presidential tickets and that the message of the Democrats did not answer to questions such as immigration and social security. He said he listened why.
Andrea Smith, a veteran, and her 19-year-old daughter Liberty said that they were already removed from home in west in the Moines.
“We have a lot to do with him,” said Liberty Smith. “He felt real during the election season.”
Showing the rolling event was May Dehaan’s way of making nonnnn to notice that his voters are frustrated. She was wearing a shirt with the inscription: “This is not normal.”
“Obviously he doesn’t listen to his voters. He follows the GOP discussion points. “Said Dehaan, a retired interior designer from the suburb of Clive, who wrote to Nunn herself. “We are fed up with being ignored.”
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