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Adam Gabbatt

Tim Walz says he and Harris were too ‘safe’ during 2024 presidential campaign

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Tim Walz and Kamala Harris campaign in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on 28 October 2024. Photograph: Lon Horwedel/EPA

Tim Walz has said that he and Kamala Harris were too “safe” during their 2024 election campaign, with the former vice-presidential candidate claiming they should have held more in-person events around the US.

“We shouldn’t have been playing this thing so safe,” Walz, the governor of Minnesota, said in an interview with Politico, as Democrats seek to learn the lessons of Donald Trump’s win in November, which has sent the party into the political wilderness.

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