(DCNF)—Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is launching a tour of town halls in red districts across the U.S. beginning this week.
Walz confirmed the tour plans in a Wednesday post on X, writing that he intends to “lend a megaphone” to Americans. Notably, Walz’s tour announcement comes just a few months after he ran alongside former Vice President Kamala Harris on the Democratic ticket in the 2024 presidential race, and was brutally defeated by President Donald Trump.
“I’m hitting the road, traveling to red states across the country to lend a megaphone to the people,” Walz wrote in the social media post. “Your congressman may not want to listen, but they’re going to hear from us anyway.”
The left-wing governor is set to kick off his tour on Friday in Iowa and later make a stop in Nebraska, CNN reported Wednesday. Walz’s team is already planning to make stops in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Ohio over the next several weeks, according to the outlet.
“There was just a primal scream of folks recognizing what’s going on with the Trump administration, their authoritarian tendencies, and what they viewed was a lack of a proper response from their representatives,” Walz told CNN on Wednesday. “It was about these Republican representatives recognizing this stuff’s really unpopular, so they’re going to quit the town halls. These folks need to be heard. They need to be heard, and to be candid with you, Democratic leadership needs to hear them.”
In August 2024, Harris tapped Walz as her running mate in her failed White House bid. There have been recent reports that Walz is considering running for reelection in the 2026 Minnesota gubernatorial race instead of making a bid for his state’s open Senate seat.
One of Walz’s aides told CNN that his office has recently received hundreds of invitations from local party leaders and candidates requesting Walz to come visit them on his tour.
“I always feared that they would become apathetic after this last election and just check out, but they are not doing that,” Walz told the outlet.
Walz has introduced a host of liberal legislation since he took office in 2018, including signing a May 2023 law that required Minnesota schools to provide tampons in both girls’ and boys’ restrooms, which led President Donald Trump and others to refer to him as “Tampon Tim.”
Walz also emphasized during the CNN interview that he would do his best to ensure that the Democratic Party wins the 2028 presidential election.
“I will do anything possible to make sure that we win in ’28. I do not need to be on that ticket,” Walz told CNN. “That’s not my pursuit here. My pursuit is that I am still in a position where I have a platform and I have some power to make a difference, and if 20 people show up that’s good by me because those 20 people are making a difference. This isn’t about drawing a crowd. I’ll go to states where it wouldn’t matter, but it matters to those people. And that’s what I’m going to do.”
Still, Walz told The New Yorker in a March 2 interview that he would consider making his own 2028 presidential bid if the conditions and his “skill set” were right for him to run. Some other likely candidates for the 2028 Democratic ticket include Harris, Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom, former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, and Rahm Emanuel, an Obama-era White House chief of staff and former Chicago mayor.
The Democrat Party is reportedly struggling to figure out its messaging after the Harris-Walz campaign lost the November 2024 presidential election. Relatedly, some recent polling has shown that congressional Democrats currently are receiving low approval ratings from Americans and even members of their own party.
Walz’s office did not respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.
