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Has Tim Walz broken out into a panic over his upcoming debate against J.D. Vance? Or has his team decided to lower expectations, or even engaged in a head-fake to trap Vance into overconfidence?
Beege had fun with the « spazzing » option this weekend in the Headlines, based on this CNN story, updated further yesterday morning. « Damn », she added to the Headline in the commentary box. « I’m about giddy. »
Well, maaaaayyybeee. My skepticism reflex went into overdrive when reading this passage:
Talking to the aides who have coalesced around him in Minnesota and other supporters, Walz constantly comes back to how worried he is about letting Harris down, according to close to a dozen top campaign staffers and others who have been in touch with the governor and his team. He doesn’t want Donald Trump to win. He doesn’t want Harris to think she made the wrong choice.
He feels genuine contempt for and confusion over what he views as Vance’s abandonment of their common roots, and for flipping so many of his positions to fit with Trump. The digs he takes at Vance by saying he didn’t know many Midwesterners who went to Yale are a glimpse into his anxiety that his opponent learned to be a sharp debater there, according to people who know Walz.
This could cut both ways. It could frame a Walz loss as some kind of validation that Vance betrayed his roots by applying to Yale Law School, a very strange argument from someone who has spent his entire life grafted to Academia.
