This CNN article by Edward-Isaac Dovere is pretty devastating. Take this quote:
“Progressive donors and consultants loved the Coach Walz persona, but it didn’t actually land with the rural voters and men it was designed to win over. I think it looked like a performance trying to distract from the Biden record he and Harris never distanced themselves from,” one House Democrat who won in a district Trump carried told CNN.
Dead-on.
Also: “Walz says now he should have been doing events all through last fall. He says he offered, but was told no, and in his bewildered daze, he decided to be a team player.”
If Dovere has garbled what Walz said, the governor ought to say so. Because “vote for me, sorry I was in a bewildered daze when last in the national spotlight” does not seem like a good 2028 campaign slogan. Although it would explain his performance in the debate with JD Vance.