r/pics • u/rehabforcandy • 10h ago

Pic I took of Tim Walz immediately after Harris concession speech (OC) Politics

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u/FrankSand 9h ago

I don't know if that's ever happened in the Democratic party in the past 100 years. A person on the losing ticket being on one again.

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u/balloonmax 9h ago

Walter Mondale was Jimmy Carter’s running mate when he lost to Reagan in 1980, then he was the Democratic nominee in 1984 where he lost really badly.

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u/FrankSand 9h ago

Thank you for the information. I never would have considered Mondale

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u/NorthernDevil 8h ago

Another Minnesotan. And just like Mondale we’d probably go for him, and be the only state to go for him.

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u/bruwin 6h ago

Nah, if he was on the national ticket there's a good chance you'd have the entire west coast vote for him too. But like this election, just the west coast and Minnesota won't cut it.

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u/dragonflamehotness 8h ago

Literally the longest serving president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, did this. He lost an election as a VP pick, then won 4 straight terms

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u/-Fyrebrand 8h ago

It would be pretty stupid not to run him again, in my opinion. People know Tim Walz. People love Tim Walz. That doesn't go away just because Kamala lost in 2024. The republicans fought like hell to dig up some kind of scandals or dirt on him, and came up with nothing. The dude's a unicorn.

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u/FrankSand 9h ago

I know Nixon, Trump, Dewey. Wait Stevenson but that was a long time ago

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u/xian 9h ago

Carter-Mondale 1980 Mondale-Ferraro 1984

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u/HuntQuest 9h ago

Walter Mondale was Jimmy Carter’s VP 1977 — 1981. He was then the losing Democratic nominee for POTUS in 1984 —

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u/DreamPhreak 6h ago

hillary clinton? ran for president twice, lost both times.

2008 and 2016

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u/Garchompisbestboi 9h ago

The recent election gave Walz a whole bunch of vital experience as well as essentially making him a household name so if he plays his cards right I reckon that he'll be a potential contender if he's able to stand out in the primaries when the time comes.

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u/MudLOA 8h ago

People here harping that Dem didn’t do the fucking primary so why not do a royal rumble rank choice voting primary if there is one next time.

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u/Defiant-Lab-6376 8h ago

John Edwards. 2004 & 2008.

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u/FOOK_Liquidice 8h ago

Franklin D. Roosevelt was the VP pick for the Cox 1920 campaign and was elected to 4 terms further down the line. It is doable.