Democrat Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the vice presidential pick of former Vice President Kamala Harris on the ticket that was defeated by President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, wants his party to “get meaner.”
He spoke at an event in South Carolina where he was on hand to energize the Democratic base when he made the comments, The New York Post reported.
“Maybe it’s time for us to be a little meaner, a little bit more fierce,” the Democrat said as the crowd cheered.
“The thing that bothers a teacher more than anything is to watch a bully,” he said. “And when its a child you talk to them and you tell them why bullying is wrong.”
“But when it’s an adult like Donald Trump, you bully the s**t out of him back,” he said.
“Donald is the existential threat we knew was coming,” he said during the speech, and said that, for Democrats, “it is going to be a challenging few years here.”
“We’ve got the guts and we need to have it to push back on the bullies and the greed,” he said.
He went on, after calling for his party to start bullying the president, to call for “joy” again, like he and Harris did during the 2024 presidential campaign.
“Damnit, we should be able to have some fun and be joyful,” he said, apparently without realizing he just called for his party to become “meaner.”
He also poked fun at what the president calls his “big, beautiful bill.”
