MSNBC data reporter Steve Kornacki said Tuesday that Democratic Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota may not be able to move the needle in key states as the party’s vice-presidential nominee.
Vice President Kamala Harris chose Walz to be her running mate Tuesday morning, passing over Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania.
Kornacki said during an appearance on “Ana Cabrera Reports” that Walz’s 2022 re-election win was similar to how President Joe Biden carried Minnesota in 2020.
“When you look at what Tim Walz actually pulled off to get elected, to get re-elected in 2022, it’s the Biden model, demographically, regionally,” Kornacki told host Ana Cabrera.
“You go county by county, there’s not much variance between how Walz did and how Biden did. Walz ran up huge numbers, look at this, this is the biggest county in the state, Hennepin County, Minneapolis here. Walz ran up huge numbers, Biden ran up huge numbers.”
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“Now go into greater Minnesota, let’s take a look at, like, Stearns County here. Look, Walz lost this by 23 points. What did Biden lose it by? 23 points. And this is the kind of county, by the way, in Minnesota and across the Midwest here, that Democrats are hoping Walz will help them with,” Kornacki continued. “Look, let’s go back in time here. Once upon a time, just a dozen years ago, Democrats weren’t winning a county like this, but look, Barack Obama was able to get 43% of the vote here, basically run just over 10 points behind Mitt Romney. Obama was able to do that in a county like Stearns, and he was able to do that in counties like this all over the Midwest: Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania.”
Harris leads Trump by 0.2% in a national head-to-head matchup, according to the Real Clear Polling average of polls from July 22 to Aug. 4, with Harris increasing her lead to 0.4% when Green Party candidate Dr. Jill Stein and independent presidential candidates Cornel West and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are included in surveys.
“You see that fell off the cliff for Democrats with Clinton, with Biden and there’s Walz, his tally in this county, right between where Biden and Clinton’s was,” Kornacki said. “So, the Walz victory in 2022 looks like what is now a standard Democratic victory in Minnesota: Heavy reliance on the Twin Cities metro area and taking big losses in greater Minnesota.”
“The Democrats’ hope is that he’s going to appeal to the blue-collar areas in these other three states, maybe he will, but when you look at what he’s done in Minnesota, you don’t quite see that,” Kornacki said.
Yep the nine county Metro area surrounding Minneapolis and St Paul inclusive it’s the home of 90% of the Somalians that Obama brought to Minnesota illegally, not sure if they are legal voters now but they are voting!! And that’s how the Democrats main maintain control of the state!! Between the twin cities metro area, Rochester metro area, and Duluth metro area, this is where all the immigrants are living in voting whether legal or not!! These dozen or so counties dominate this date because they are so popular with non-citizens that the rest of the state doesn’t have a chance to do anything constructive!!
well he will not be employed tommorow
What stops WAKANDA Kamla & TAMPON Tim winning the White House this November MADURO-STYLE?
NOTHING!
DonnieDOTARD has ZERO powerbase military, grassroot or judiciary… and COMPLETELY POWERLESS to STOP THEM!
The big cities that are run by Commiecrats are corrupt and that’s where the vote fraud happens. The RNC should be targeting these cities to get republican mayors elected.
US Muslim group endorses Harris, says she will show ‘more sympathy’ for Gaza
The group cited Harris’s not attending Netanyahu’s speech to Congress and statements about civilians in Gaza as reasons to endorse her.
By Vered Weiss, World Israel News
A Black Muslim Group has endorsed Kamala Harris in her campaign for president of the US because they feel she will “show more sympathy” for Gaza than Biden or Trump.
The Black Muslim Leadership Council did not endorse US President Joe Biden when he was still in the race because he supported Israel during its war with Hamas.
Salima Suswell, the founder and chief executive of the Black Muslim Leadership Council Fund, told NBC on Thursday: “[Harris] has shown more sympathy towards the people of Gaza than both President Biden and Former President Donald Trump.”
Many of the Muslim American voters who voted “uncommitted” in the Democratic primary to protest Biden’s stance on Gaza may be convinced to back Kamala Harris, given her perceived sympathy towards the Palestinians.
Suswell listed why Muslim voters should trust Harris, “During Prime Minister Netanyahu’s address to Congress, she decided not to attend. She has repeatedly called for a ceasefire, and I believe she has also expressed empathy towards civilian life and has been very caring as it relates to getting aid to the people of Gaza.”
Although in a White House speech, Harris uttered the oft-repeated phrase that she believes “Israel has the right to defend itself,” she qualified it with, “How it does so matters.” She added she would “not be silent” about the plight of Gazan civilians in Gaza.
Although Harris claimed that her not attending Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress was not meant to be perceived as a slight, since she had a speaking engagement at a sorority event in Indiana, Israeli officials and Republicans in Congress took it amiss.
One Israeli official said, “The decision of Harris to boycott the speech of the Prime Minister of Israel during a difficult war against Iran and its terror proxies is disappointing.”
“The free world cannot afford leaders who are unable to distinguish between good and evil,” they continued.
Framing Harris’ absence as a snub of the Israeli premier, a second Israeli official said her refusal to attend the address was a “shame,” and “not a way to treat an ally.”
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