Back on the road, Tim Walz tries to find his voice and fill 'the void'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : These days, Walz said that thinking they were going to win "feels like an unforgivable sin." "I'm a little bit jaded now, knowing how tough this is because of that," he said, then hearing the noise of the crowd waiting inside, said, "We'll see how these folks are." After he finished his hour on stage by asking the crowd to call out ideas for standing up to Trump, Walz participated in a line of photos - not backstage with donors, but with whoever from the crowd wanted to wait to climb up the stairs to be with him.
42% : How that will happen when Trump is barely into a four-year term and already exerting executive power in unprecedented ways, and how Democrats keep their spirits up when even their chance at getting more power in the midterms is 18 months away, Walz is not sure.
39% : That speculation is less important to him than addressing the reality of Trump.
34% : And I think just saying 'Trump did all that,' I don't know if that necessarily helps us," Walz said.
31% : Walz has not made a final decision on running for a third term as governor next year, though he feels compelled to, if only to push back on Trump. 
31% : "It's going to get very dark," Walz said, running through speculation that ranged from Trump soon ordering the arrest of a political opponent to trying to anoint a son as his successor in the White House.
26% : Both parties have rushed to nationalize the race to determine the majority make-up of the bench - the Republican posing with a giant inflatable Trump balloon over the weekend and promising to be part of the backlash to judicial pushback on Trump, the Democrats running ads featuring Trump and Elon Musk (who's spending millions of his own money on the race) with a chainsaw.
15% : I think it looked like a performance trying to distract from the Biden record he and Harris never distanced themselves from," one House Democrat who won in a district Trump carried told CNN.
13% : Tuesday's statement from Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts rebuking the president's rhetoric on impeaching judges, without naming Trump, tells Walz that Roberts is also "scared of where things are going.
11% : " What Walz is sure of is that Democrats who are counting on Trump overreaching or the pendulum just swinging back are delusional - and that it's not enough from the Democratic leaders basing their pitches around saying that what Trump is doing is not why people voted for him or that prices still haven't gone down.

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