{"id":37247,"date":"2025-03-28T13:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/28\/walz-says-dems-werent-bold-enough-to-double-down-on-dei-immigration\/"},"modified":"2025-03-28T13:15:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T13:15:00","slug":"walz-says-dems-werent-bold-enough-to-double-down-on-dei-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/28\/walz-says-dems-werent-bold-enough-to-double-down-on-dei-immigration\/","title":{"rendered":"Walz says Dems weren&#8217;t &#8216;bold enough&#8217; to double down on DEI, immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/tim-walz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz<\/a> said the Democratic Party has gotten into its current mess because it wasn\u2019t &#8220;bold enough&#8221; to stand up for diversity, equity and inclusion and immigration. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The former vice-presidential candidate appeared Thursday at a town hall event in Rosenberg, Texas, alongside former Rep. Beto O\u2019Rourke. He told supporters &#8220;I&#8217;m just going to note this s&#8212; show of a [Signal] text chain that was going on could have used a little diversity, equity, inclusion in the people who were there.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So I think and I&#8217;m going to own this, when we see people back off and we see corporations back off to the threats, instead of leaning into and knowing we&#8217;re doing this because it&#8217;s not only morally the right thing to do, it\u2019s economically the right thing to do. And our culture proves that our strength is our diversity,&#8221; Walz continued.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve been talking about this for years as a country of immigrants, and we let them define the issue on immigration. We let them define the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/dei\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">issue on DEI,<\/a> and we let them define what woke is,&#8221; Walz declared. &#8220;We got ourselves in this mess because we weren&#8217;t bold enough to stand up and say \u2018you damn right we&#8217;re proud of these policies. We&#8217;re going to put them in, and we&#8217;re going to execute them.\u2019&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-rips-loser-tim-walz-hurting-dems-2024-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>TRUMP RIPS \u2018LOSER\u2019 TIM WALZ FOR HURTING DEMS IN 2024 ELECTION<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Walz added that Republicans are &#8220;going to use fear&#8221; and &#8220;they&#8217;re going to do whatever they can.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What I would say is we need to make sure we&#8217;re highly organized,&#8221; he told the audience.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One of the groups that has benefited greatly by us understanding that diversity, equity and inclusion and having policies around that, were veterans themselves for hiring. Veterans are a part of the group when the federal government hires people based on that,&#8221; Walz also said. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The rest of it is, as we all know, in Minnesota, pretty white, pretty cold, much like you see in the Northern hemisphere, northern states, population going down, 70% of our workforce over the next 20 years is going to come from communities of color,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Our very existence depends on diversity, equity and inclusion.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/tim-walz-says-he-joking-when-he-mocked-teslas-falling-stock-these-people-have-no-sense-humor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>TIM WALZ SAYS HE WAS JOKING WHEN HE MOCKED TESLA\u2019S FALLING STOCK<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last week, Trump said Walz contributed to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/democratic-party\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Democrats\u2019 loss in the 2024 election.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s comments came in response to statements Walz provided in a podcast with California Gov. Gavin Newsom,\u00a0in which Walz predicted he could kick the &#8220;a&#8211;&#8221; of most Trump supporters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, he&#8217;s a loser. Yeah. No, I think so. He lost an election,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;He played a part. You know, usually a vice president doesn&#8217;t play a part. They say. I think Tim played a part. I think he was so bad that he hurt her. But she hurt herself. And Joe hurt them both. They didn&#8217;t have a great group, but I would probably put him at the bottom of the group.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><i>Fox News\u2019 Diana Stacey contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said the Democratic Party has gotten into its current mess because it wasn\u2019t &#8220;bold enough&#8221; to stand up for diversity, equity and inclusion and immigration. \u00a0 The former vice-presidential candidate appeared Thursday at a town hall event in Rosenberg, Texas, alongside former Rep. Beto O\u2019Rourke. He told supporters &#8220;I&#8217;m just going &#8230; <a title=\"Walz says Dems weren&#8217;t &#8216;bold enough&#8217; to double down on DEI, immigration\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/28\/walz-says-dems-werent-bold-enough-to-double-down-on-dei-immigration\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Walz says Dems weren&#8217;t &#8216;bold enough&#8217; to double down on DEI, immigration\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}