MSNBC election analyst Steve Kornacki provided somewhat sobering election data following Kamala Harris‘ selection of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her 2024 presidential running mate.
Walz, a far-left Governor who presided over the devastating George Floyd riots in 2020, has been lauded by liberals as a great pick for Harris but also would have widespread appeal amongst working-class and Republican voters.
However, Kornacki crushed Democrats’ dreams after pointing out data from Stearns County, Minnesota, highlighting that the party have been losing ground in recent years.
“Now here’s the key, because this county, Democrats used to be much more competitive in. Look at this, in 2012, Barack Obama won 43% of the vote in this county. It was only a little bit more than 10 points that he lost to Romney by here,” he said.
“The floor fell out for Democrats here when Trump came along in that Clinton race in 2016, and they haven’t recovered it since,” he added.
The MSNBC elections analyst also noted that Walz underperformed Joe Biden’s 2020 results in the county, stressing that it was “a far cry from what Obama was doing here.”
“And again, I’m showing you one. This is a stand-in for dozens of counties in Minnesota where you saw the same thing with large rural populations, blue-collar white populations, where Obama, and some of them he was winning, others he was holding his own just a dozen years ago,” Kornacki said.
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“This is where Democrats have lost ground. And Walz in 2022, he didn’t gain any ground that the Democrats had lost.”
“He didn’t do that here, he didn’t do that in other counties,” Kornacki said.
“Walz really owes his victory, that big margin, he got 8 points there statewide, he owes it to the Twin Cities area.”
“The area where Democrats in Minnesota and all these other states are already doing well.”
Kornacki rejected the notion that Walz has widespread appeal to rural and suburban voters.
“And the idea that he’s got this automatic appeal with these small town areas in those three key battleground states, you don’t see it in what he actually did on the ballot in 2022.
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