Why Tim Walz Wasn’t the ‘Lovable Goofball’ Liberals Hoped For

Kamala Harris’ loss was crushing for her supporters, but if her campaign was truly aiming for victory, some different decisions could have been made.

One such decision was her VP pick, Tim Walz—though he doesn’t seem to realize it himself.

In his first television interview since the election defeat, Walz expressed being “a little surprised” that he and Harris lost to Donald Trump.

“It felt like at the rallies, at the things I was going to, the shops I was in, that the momentum was going our way,” the Minnesota governor told KSTP. “So yeah, I was a little surprised. I thought we had a positive message, and I thought the country was ready for that.”

However, Mike Cernovich, who had a more critical view, thought it might have been one of the campaign’s major missteps.

“Tim Walz triggers me psychologically,” Cernovich remarked to James Poulos of Zero Hour. “They picked him because they thought that white men would say, ’He’s one of us,’ not realizing that he’s the archetypal blowhard coach we all hated, and he had some weird position of authority over us that was unearned.”

“In a hierarchical structure among men, he would never have earned it,” Cernovich continued. “Put him in a room of 10 men, this guy is not running things. You guys thought that he’s somebody we would look up to because you’re so deep in the DEI world, but he’s someone we would loathe.”

Cernovich added that Walz is more of a “reply guy” than anything else. “He’s the type who feels like they have to say something just to say it.”