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DULUTH, Minn. – The Republican Party chair of a rural county in central Minnesota is blasting the prevalent media narrative that Gov. Tim Walz is a “moderate” and tells Fox News Digital that rural voters throughout the nation are being “bamboozled” by that speaking level.
“I do have a message for most of our rural people here and anybody else that may be watching this, please, you’re getting hoodwinked,” Lowell Smith, a state school educator and chair of the Crow Wing County GOP in Brainerd, Minnesota, instructed Fox News Digital.
“You’re getting bamboozled. He’s lying to you. He is not for rural America. He only cares about very liberal policies that would be embraced by the elite. He’s not for us. He’s basically. You can’t remember who said it, but he really is. Bernie Sanders and flannel. They’re trying to market him as not being that. But he’s a liberal just dressed in flannel. He’s against the Second Amendment. He’s not for rural America.”
Smith continued, “Governor Walz’s values do not align with much of rural Minnesota at all, or for much of rural America. He kind of originally ran to try and be a moderate, but every policy he has taken, everything that he has done since being elected has been ultra liberal and nothing has reflected that he’s a moderate at all, so it made perfect sense that Kamala Harris picked him to be her running mate.”
Smith instructed Fox News Digital that when he speaks to rural voters in Minnesota, “everybody’s really angry” about Walz “letting the state burn for about four days” in the course of the George Floyd riots in 2020 that brought about a whole bunch of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in harm.
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A rural GOP chair in Minnesota instructed Fox News Digital Gov. Tim Walz is making an attempt to “bamboozle” rural voters.
Additionally, Smith pointed to the tax coverage and enterprise local weather underneath Walz in Minnesota and stated that Democrats in charge of the state have “squandered” a $17 billion surplus underneath Walz’s management.
The nonpartisan Tax Foundation’s State Business Tax Climate Index for 2024, which was printed in October 2023, ranked Minnesota as having the forty fourth greatest tax local weather for companies within the nation.
An evaluation printed by the left-leaning Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy in January discovered that Minnesota’s tax code was essentially the most progressive of all 50 states, with solely the District of Columbia having a extra progressive tax code.
“In Minnesota, we respect our neighbors and their personal choices that they make,” Walz instructed a Philadelphia crowd about abortion throughout his introduction as Vice President Kamala Harris’ vice presidential decide. “Even if we wouldn’t make the same choice for ourselves, there’s a golden rule: Mind your own damn business.”
Smith instructed Fox News Digital that rural voters in Minnesota take challenge with that declare given Walz’s report on COVID, which he has been extensively criticized for by Republicans.
“His policies did not reflect that at all,” Smith stated. “He set up a tip line to where, basically, you could snitch off your neighbor if they were not wearing their mask, or they kept their business open and there would be civil fines attached to that.”
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“So that was kind of reminiscent for up here back in communism when you had family members spying on family members and that is not what us in rural Minnesota really believe in.”
Smith instructed Fox News Digital that residents in his county colloquially confer with Walz as “Tampon Tim” attributable to his insurance policies on transgender points, together with permitting menstrual merchandise to be positioned at school bogs throughout the nation, together with boys’ bogs. Democrats have pushed again in opposition to that line of assault, however Smith says that Walz has primarily made Minnesota a “sanctuary state” for transgender points.
“Embracing that transgender ideology, so much so that he’s made Minnesota a sanctuary state to where if you’re a minor in Iowa, South Dakota, North Dakota, and your parents do not agree with you, you can drive into Minnesota, then at that point, for lack of a better term, Minnesota can take possession of you and allow you to get that transgender surgery or health care without your parents consent or even knowledge,” Smith stated. “Even in Minnesota, if your child is gender confused, the state may step in and take your child and allow health care directives to be directed toward your child against the parent’s wishes. This just does not sit well with us up here.”
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Smith instructed Fox News Digital that residents round Brainerd are so fed up with Walz’s insurance policies {that a} native enterprise alongside Highway 10 in Royalton, Minnesota, put up an indication seen by hundreds of motorists exhibiting Walz along with his head inserted in his rear finish that reads, “Gov. Walz, Northern MN is trying to see things from your point of view. Sponsored by Rocks & Cows of the North.”
The “Rocks & Cows” refers to a remark made by Walz in 2017 about rural America that the Trump marketing campaign has seized on, however some say was taken out of context.
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Fox News Digital requested Smith what points rural voters in his county inform him they’re most involved about within the November election.
“The top three issues that we hear first and foremost is our budget nationally as far as our money,” Smith defined. “We want to ensure that we have a strong economy and that does not look to be going that well. The next thing will be control of crime. Crime is rampant through most of the democratically controlled areas and people want to be safe in their neighborhoods and in their homes.”
“Lastly would be the control of the border, which would be the massive flood or what we hear up here, as they call it, an invasion from other countries into our country every week. Those are the three things that I hear most, from the people in our county.”
Fox News Digital reached out to the Harris Walz marketing campaign for remark however didn’t obtain a response.
