WATCH: Gov. Tim Walz vowed on Friday to make Minnesota a safe haven for the values that drove the Democratic presidential ticket he helped lead, while at the same time promising to work harder to understand the concerns of President-elect Donald Trump’s voters.
Inside a high school auditorium in Eagan, Minnesota, a suburb just south of Minneapolis-St. Paul, Walz addressed a crowd of supporters with his reflections on Trump’s election victory, an outcome he said left him searching for answers. (Courtesy of Associated Press)
Inside a high school auditorium in Eagan, Minnesota, a suburb just south of Minneapolis-St. Paul, Walz addressed a crowd of supporters with his reflections on Trump’s election victory, an outcome he said left him searching for answers. (Courtesy of Associated Press)
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00:00Look, folks, I just want to acknowledge the moment.
00:11It's hard.
00:12It's hard to lose.
00:14It's hard to understand, while so many of our fellow citizens, people that we have fought
00:21so long and hard for, wound up choosing the other path.
00:25What struck me everywhere I went, without exception, people really wanted the same basic
00:32things out of an American life.
00:35And I want to be clear, when I say basic things, I mean things like meaningful work, safe neighborhoods,
00:42good schools, affordable quality health care.
00:45But I also mean something more.
00:47It became clear to me, people want security.
00:51And I mean that broadly.
00:52They want to feel like their life is built on a solid foundation that won't collapse
00:58under them if the wind blows the wrong way or something happens.
01:03And I think most of all, and you saw it in a very deep way, people want freedom to live
01:09their lives the way they want to live them.
01:12It's not the way that maybe their neighbors wouldn't want to live them the same way.
01:15But the freedom is supposed to be everybody's birthright, not because of how much money
01:19you had or where your family came from, no matter who you love or how you prayed or what
01:27you think about the issues of the day are.
01:29The other side spent a lot of time campaigning and talking about and promising that they
01:34would leave things up to the states.
01:36Well, I'm willing to take them at their word for that.
01:48But the moment they try and bring a hateful agenda in this state, I'm going to stand ready
01:52to stand up and fight for the way we do things here.