Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) said this week that universal health care will be the ticket for a Democratic president to remain in power once they get there.
Walz, the Democratic vice presidential nominee in 2024, held forth on MS NOW’s “The Weeknight ” after announcing he had established a new PAC to support rural interests.
“Progressives win elections, but they can’t hold power,” he said on Monday. “We have to figure out once we move in a progressive way, once we see a Barack Obama win, once we see a Congress win, it has to be about not holding power for the sake of holding power. It has to be about passing things.”
“When we take power back, I’ll tell you what, the next Democratic president better figure out a way to get universal health care, [or] we’re back in the same situation again. And it better improve the lives of those rural hospitals, because that’s the way you get true power. Because we don’t want to win to just win. We want to win so we can enact policies that improve people’s lives.”