(DCNF)—Former Democratic National Committee (DNC) official Lindy Li criticized Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Monday after he claimed he and former Vice President Kamala Harris were overly guarded during their presidential campaign.
“We shouldn’t have been playing this thing so safe,” Walz told Politico in an interview published Saturday. Li, on “Wake Up America,” argued Harris and Walz avoided doing media appearances because both candidates were awful at them.
“I met Tim Walz on a number of occasions and obviously I’ve spent extensive time with Kamala Harris. The reason why they were hiding from the media is because she sucks at it,” Li said. “I’m sorry that I’m not putting it more eloquently but she was just terrible. They were both terrible. And they put out Tim Walz. I don’t know who thought he was a good idea.”
“He was like a second iteration of [Democratic Virginia Sen.] Tim Kaine, but even worse. He turned out to be a pathological liar,” she continued. “Who could possibly think it would be a good idea to lie about being in Tiananmen Square when you were in Nebraska?”
Walz faced scrutiny during the campaign for repeatedly making inaccurate claims regarding his past, including assertions that he was in Hong Kong amid the pro-democracy protests at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, which resulted in what is believed to have been at least hundreds of people being killed in 1989. China has famously censored accurate information from the massacre from being released to the public, including on search engines. So the exact number of deaths is still not known.
“I mean, come on. It’s just so beyond the pale,” Li added. “And now he’s thinking about running for president? Didn’t he get the memo that the American people do not want a second coming of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz?”
Walz said in an interview with The New Yorker published on March 2 that he would run for president in 2028 if the conditions and his “skill set” aligned.
The governor also disclosed during a February podcast that he regrets wasting several days of the campaign focusing on President Donald Trump’s comments regarding Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio.
“I will kick myself that I got sucked in. I bet you I spent three or four days, maybe longer, not clowning, but just hammering them over the eating dogs and cats because it was so ridiculous,” Walz said. “And I took that hook, line and sinker. We were talking about immigration at a critical part of the campaign. And it was hurtful. And it pissed me off. And I was standing there to defend people. And it didn’t do a damn bit of good electorally.”
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