1 month post election, was Tim Walz an terrible or underwhelming pick for VP? Was he an asset or a liability or just an empty suit?
In August and September 2024, there was discussion—not necessarily here but elsewhere—that Donald Trump made a poor vice-presidential running mate decision in JD Vance.
A very bad v.p. pick is one who
creates new problems for one’s campaign.
Election 2024—a Republican Trifecta outcome including a pickup for U.S. President (with re-election, to a non-consecutive second term, for Trump)—was made possible because the Democrats imploded. Joe Biden’s job approval was routinely below 40 percent. People gave Kamala Harris a honeymoon in August and September. Then October arrived and it became clear the electorate did not want the incumbent White House party—the Democratic Party—to have the next four years.
Tim Walz—or anyone else who otherwise could have been selected as the 2024 Democratic vice-presidential nominee—did not matter given the overall circumstances of this election.
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