After Debate Beatdown by Vance, Wobbling Walz to Change Strategy in Campaign's Final Stretch

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By all reasonable accounts, JD Vance cleaned Tim Walz's clock throughout Tuesday's vice presidential debate. Even CNN, the Democrat Party's quasi-official media outlet, was forced to admit Walz lost.

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In fact, even Harris-Waltz officials have tacitly admitted Walz was a disaster, although they have not said so publicly, instead announcing that the unpredictable and loose-lipped vice presidential candidate will embark on a media blitz during the final month of the campaign.

Walz will participate in more media interviews and engagements to reach key demographics and target voters that the campaign is working to win, combining national, battleground state, and specialty media interviews with high-impact digital engagements including with sports content creators and podcasts.

"Specialty media interviews." Interesting. Given the ridiculously staged interviews Harris and Waltz have done so far, call me skeptical.

The campaign also said:

With just over 30 days until the election, the Harris-Walz ticket is entering the final stretch of the campaign aggressively, with a robust travel and media schedule to ensure that every American voter knows what’s on the line in November.

Translation: After treating the media, including press conferences and interviews, like the bubonic plague, both Harris and Walz delivered less than stellar debate performances, to put it kindly. Now, with the election just 33 days away as I write and the clock continuing to tick, it appears that campaign officials believe they have nothing to lose by doing a 180 with the media.

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Walz will visit Pennsylvania, Ohio, California, Washington, Nevada, and Arizona in a slew of campaign events ranging from rallies, direct voter engagement events, fundraisers, and two national TV interviews. 

Walz began his campaign tour in Pennsylvania Wednesday, stopping in Harrisburg and Reading before Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) joined him for a rally in York. 

For the media appearances, Walz is set to make his late-night TV debut as Harris’s running mate and be a guest on a “top pop culture podcast” while out West, according to ABC News. The exact details of these appearances have yet to be announced.

Walz will host fundraising events beginning in Cleveland and Cincinnati, Ohio. Afterwards, he will travel west to host fundraising events in California and Washington. 

He will then travel to the Sun Belt, holding a campaign rally in Reno, Nevada. The event was postponed due to the Davis wildfires last month. In Arizona this Wednesday, Walz will host a series of political events to kick off early voting in the state, which starts Oct. 9.

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Stock up on popcorn, gang; this is gonna be fun.

The Bottom Line

As is the case with cackling Kamala, the more times Walz speaks in public, the greater the odds that he'll say something idiotic, like "I was friends with school shooters." While he obviously meant to say "victims of school shooters" or something similar, the fact was that he still said it, creating a field day for Harris-Walz critics. 

In addition, the more these two talk, the more chances they have to tell us what they really think and what their real policies are. Call it a Catch-22, pursued solely out of desperation.

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