Tim Walz Diagnoses His Party’s Sad State: We Aren’t Selling Policies Voters Hate Hard Enough

Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said the Democratic Party has gotten into a “mess” because they were not “bold enough” to double down on issues such as diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and immigration.

The left-wing governor also said during a town hall event in Rosenberg, Texas, Thursday that Democrats have allowed the Republican Party to “define the issue” on the aforementioned topics. Walz’s remarks come as the Democratic Party grapples with its election losses after the Republican Party won control of the White House and both chambers of Congress in the 2024 election cycle.

“So I think and I’m going to own this, when we see people back off and we see corporations back off to the threats, instead of leaning into and knowing we’re doing this because it’s not only morally the right thing to do, it’s economically the right thing to do,” Walz added. “And our culture proves that our strength is our diversity.”

“We’ve been talking about this for years as a country of immigrants, and we let them define the issue on immigration,” Walz said. “We let them define the issue on DEI and we let them define what woke is. We got ourselves in this mess because we weren’t bold enough to stand up and say ‘you damn right we’re proud of these policies. We’re going to put them in, and we’re going to execute them.’”

Walz also told the town hall audience that “our very existence depends on diversity, equity and inclusion.”

Notably, Democrats have been confronting stark divisions within their party since the November 2024 presidential election and have been struggling