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Tim Walz: “We need to solve climate change, but you can't worry about…”

Featuring: Tim Walz, Democratic | Governor of Minnesota

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LIVE | Govs. Tim Walz, J.B. Pritzker discuss Trump, federal government at Star Tribune summit

Published | Video Starts at 39:12

The governor did a great job of this. What he explained to you was teachers in this room know it's Maslow's hierarchy and Democrats get stuck on self actualization. We need to solve climate change, but you can't worry about climate change if you can't pay the bills. And they have to go hand in hand. So he's not wrong. I would just say on this, the conversation we had here, this is not going to win the election, but it is certainly going to motivate a base to get out there. (39:12–39:17)

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Asserts that addressing climate change is important but secondary to immediate economic concerns.

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