Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was picked from relative obscurity to serve as Kamala Harris’s running mate in 2024, and while the ticket lost, Walz’s political career is far from over. He returned to the governorship, and while Walz flirted with a Senate run for 2026 to replace the retiring Sen. Tina Smith, he recently announced that he may seek a third term as governor.
This week, audio surfaced of Walz making eye-opening comments about the Trump Administration.
The 25-second clip was released this week by Alpha News, a Minnesota-based conservative media outlet often opposed to Walz. In it, the governor is speaking to a group of nurses at the Minnesota Nurses Association’s (MNA) Day on the Hill, in which he cites things going on at recent town halls.
CAUGHT ON TAPE: Walz says country stolen ‘by fascists and Nazis’ at nurses’ event pic.twitter.com/3JTXJs5kE5
— Alpha News (@AlphaNewsMN) February 26, 2025
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“I see these pundits on TV, ‘What’s wrong with the Democratic Party.’ What’s wrong is, our country is being [stolen] by fascists and Nazis, and we’re trying do all we can,” Walz is heard saying, to applause.
A Republican state senator, Sen. Nate Wesenberg, provided the tape to Alpha News, the site said. The outlet said it reached contactedernor’s office for comment but did not receive a response.
Walz had made a similar comment during the campaign last year when he compared Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden to the Nazi rally held at an earlier version of that venue in 1938. And more recently, Walz, in a television interview, pointed at Elon Musk’s Nazi salute and called it such, leading Musk to threaten to sue him, although it doesn’t appear Musk ever actually did. He also, on that and other occasions, referred to the DOGE head as “President Musk.”
I think I will.
Tim Walz is a creepy 🤡
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 29, 2025
Walz, as governor, established new standards for Holocaust education in Minnesota, something that he frequently touted while running for vice president last week.
Also this week, Walz appeared at a comedy show in Minneapolis along with popular comedian Jim Gaffigan, who portrayed Walz on Saturday Night Live during the election last fall. Walz, in fact, was introduced as Gaffigan at the show.
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