“Tim Walz has begun his run for a third term as governor of Minnesota from a position of weakness,” notes Powerline.
A poll by a local ABC TV station found that “Walz has net approval of zero as he begins campaign for 3rd term.”
That is, as many people disapprove of him as approve of him (47% approve and 47% disapprove of him). As Powerline notes,
After seven years in office, Walz is a known quantity. Voters have already made up their minds and he can’t convince a plurality of his effectiveness. 47 percent may represent his ceiling, rather than the floor of support.
Should he run for an unprecedented third term? The KSTP poll, “When asked whether Walz should seek a third term, a slim plurality said they don’t think he should run again: 43% said they would prefer to see a different DFL candidate in 2026, while 42% said he should run.”
In this measure, he’s in the negative, 42-43.
This result reinforces the findings of a poll conducted by the Center of the American Experiment.
Powerline notes that
KSTP polled Walz against a few Republican names. He leads, but cannot crack 50 percent against any of them….Walz will have the advantage of incumbency, name recognition, ballot harvesting, and a supportive local media….Walz biggest vulnerability is the multi-billion-dollar frauds committed against state-taxpayer-funded welfare program on his watch. As we also noted, there was another waves of federal criminal indictments handed down this week. Today, the Walz-friendly Minneapolis Star Tribune had this headline, “Minnesota officials alerted to housing fraud two years before indictment.”
A non-partisan national think-tank gave Walz an “F” for fiscal management, the lowest score of any state governor. The head of a Minnesota-based think-tank says that Walz
is a small-minded, mean-spirited man…Walz’s character defects are considerable, but let’s leave it at this: he was largely responsible for the George Floyd riots that devastated Minneapolis and other cities, because he dithered for days rather than calling out the National Guard. By his own admission, he held off out of sympathy for the rioters’ cause. We are still living with the consequences.
Walz has a terrible record as governor. This post sums it up.
Under Walz, Minnesota became a high-crime state for the first time ever…Under Walz, student achievement tumbled even as spending on schools skyrocketed…Under Walz, per capita GDP in Minnesota fell below the national average, for the first time ever…Under Walz, increases in energy costs have far outstripped the national average…And under Walz, Minnesota has joined New York, California and Illinois as a state that people of all ages are fleeing.
Tim Walz’s administration turned a blind eye to a blatant $250 million fraud that ripped off taxpayers. Walz dramatically increased government spending in Minnesota, kept taxes high, and ran up one of the worst fiscal records in America.
The man tapped by Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to write Minnesota’s ethnic studies curriculum called for the “overthrow” of the United States, because he says it is “irreversibly racist”, reported the National Review.
