Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) is reflecting on his and former Vice President Kamala Harris's loss in last year's presidential election, and he said he thinks Democrats should have been bolder in their campaign to hold onto the White House.

“We shouldn’t have been playing this thing so safe,” Walz, 60, told Politico in a recent interview from Montana. “I think we probably should have just rolled the dice and done the town halls, where [voters] may say, ‘You’re full of shit, I don’t believe in you." ... I think there could have been more of that.”

Walz, who was a member of Congress before he became governor in 2019, was tapped to become Harris’s 2024 running mate in August — just two weeks into an accelerated campaign overhaul that followed then-President Biden’s decision to drop out of the race. Harris, with Biden’s backing, quickly moved to the top of the ticket with fewer than four months to campaign, becoming the first Black woman to run as a major party’s presidential........

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