"They sucked me in on [that]," Walz said in a recent episode of The New Yorker Radio Hour podcast. Echoing similar remarks he made on a recent episode of the Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast podcast, he added: "I was just horrified and angry when they were demonising folks in Springfield, Ohio. [And] there I was talking for almost a week about immigration, right where they wanted us to be."
But, Walz said, Trump "was right, for whatever reason... that more people were OK with saying that than they were against".
The Democratic Minnesota governor's commentary on the podcasts is some of his most extensive yet on one of the defining moments of his and Harris's defeat by Trump - who clinched a return to the White House - and his vice-presidential running mate, JD Vance.
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