Gov. Tim Walz is shown at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in August 2024. (Getty Images)
Trump remarked that the Democrat Party should have tapped Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro to join former Vice President Kamala Harris as her running mate on the presidential ticket, but instead chose Walz.
"Elon endorsed me very strongly. He actually went up and campaigned for me. I think I would have won. Susie would say I would have won Pennsylvania easily anyway, even if the governor had the real governor, not the governor, for a Minnesota," Trump said before calling Walz a "sick puppy."
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"But if you picked Shapiro or anybody else, I spoke to him recently about his, you know, his house being set on fire, which was terrible. But if they picked him, I would have won Pennsylvania," he added, referring to how Shapiro's home was targeted by arson while his family slept back in April.
President Donald Trump called Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz a "sick puppy" on Thursday. (Brendan Mcdermid/Reuters)
"If I think I could offer something ... I would certainly consider that," he said. "I’m also, though, not arrogant enough to believe there’s a lot of people that can do this."
He said that under the correct circumstances and if he had the right "skill set" for the 2028 race, "I’ll do it."
"You might do it?" the New Yorker asked.
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"I’ll do whatever it takes," Walz said. "I certainly wouldn’t be arrogant enough to think that it needs to be me."
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