Walz is a failed VP candidate. You’d think he’d want to go into hiding after his failure last November.
And Tim Walz makes a major election announcement that has Republicans laughing their heads off.
Folks in Minnesota are waking up to the same old song and dance from Tim Walz, the progressive puppet who’s been pulling strings in the governor’s mansion for two terms already. On Tuesday, this 61-year-old Democrat dropped the news he’s gunning for a third run in 2026, brushing off all the chatter about where he’d slink off to after his humiliating wipeout alongside Kamala Harris last November. It’s like he can’t get enough of the spotlight, even when it shines on his failures.
Picture this: Walz cruising around in a vintage Harvester International Scout like some aging Boy Scout leader. In a slick video announcement, he laid it out plain: his so-called mission in the Land of 10,000 Lakes ain’t wrapped up yet. He wants to ram through even tougher gun grabs, hand out tax breaks to the so-called middle class that never seem to trickle down right, and make health care affordable – code for more government handouts that line the pockets of bureaucrats.
“We’re not done yet,” Walz said in the video. “I want to make Minnesota a place where everyone has a chance to succeed — in every corner of the state.”
Remember, Walz was supposed to spill the beans on his re-election plot way back in the summer. But he hit the pause button after a gut-wrenching wave of violence hit close to home. The cold-blooded m*rder of former state House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, plus the brutal shooting of state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, left the whole state reeling.
“I’ve seen how we help each other through the hard times,” Walz stated. “And boy, we’ve seen terrible times this year. I’m heartbroken and angry about the beautiful people we lost to gun violence. But it’s in these moments we have to come together. We can’t lose hope because I’ve seen what we can do when we work together.”
The North Star State is one of just 13 without hard caps on governors clinging to power, but everyday Minnesotans have a habit of showing these careerists the door after two spins around the block. The last person to snag three straight wins was Orville Freeman back in the 1950s, scraping by on two-year hitches before the gig stretched to four. If Walz pulls this off, he’d etch his name as the first to hog the office for three full four-year hauls.
What turbocharged Walz’s ego for this third-term folly? That botched veep stunt last year, of course. He strutted onto the national stage as the Democrats’ Hail Mary to reel in young guys – the ones tired of woke lectures and endless identity politics.
But President Trump and VP JD Vance crushed that fantasy in November, sending Walz packing with his tail between his legs. Since then, he’s been barnstorming the country, hosting these phony town halls where he lobs grenades at the Republican administration that’s actually delivering results.
Don’t think for a second his national flameout didn’t leave scars back home. Walz spilled to Politico that the Harris-Walz ticket played it “too safe,” like admitting they bottled it by not going full-throated socialist. And boy, has he made up for that timidity since. Just this May, he lit a match under the immigration debate by smearing ICE agents as modern-day Gestapo thugs. When the backlash hit – and hit hard – Walz didn’t backpedal an inch.
That same month, he ramped up the ugly, urging his party to get “meaner” and straight-up “bully” President Trump. It’s the kind of red-meat rhetoric that fires up the coastal elites but turns off heartland voters who just want secure borders and common-sense leadership. No wonder tongues started wagging about a 2028 White House bid. But Walz shut that down quick, telling Axios in July he’d skip the presidential circus if he locked in another Minnesota term. Elsewhere, he whined that his veep gig might’ve soured locals on him.
The real kicker? All that prime-time exposure peeled back the curtain on Walz’s tall tales. Under the microscope, out tumbled whoppers like faking combat chops from his National Guard days, pretending he dodged bullets in some overseas scrap he never saw. Then there was the whopper about jetting to Hong Kong right in the thick of the Tiananmen Square bloodbath in 1989 – pure fiction.
Even Walz had to own up to his fibs during that brutal fall debate with JD Vance. “I’m a knucklehead at times,” he confessed during the debate.
And let’s not whitewash the elephant in the room: the 2020 Minneapolis meltdown after George Floyd’s death. Riots tore through the city like a wildfire, torching businesses, looting storefronts, and leaving a trail of anarchy.
Now, as Walz dusts off his campaign war chest, the Republican cavalry’s saddling up. Leading the charge is Army vet Kendall Qualls.
The GOP’s been shut out of statewide wins in Minnesota since Tim Pawlenty’s 2006 triumph – a drought that’s gone on too long. But with Trump fever still burning hot and Walz’s baggage weighing him down like an anchor, 2026 could flip the script.
This race isn’t just about one man’s ego trip; it’s a referendum on the progressive poison that’s been seeping into American communities. Walz wants to lock in his third term to push more gun bans that disarm the good guys, and more equity schemes that punish success.
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