{"id":2355973,"date":"2024-10-16T22:13:01","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T02:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/walz-criticized-for-ignorance-of-what-a-venture-capitalist-does-disqualify-him-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-10-16T22:14:32","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T02:14:32","slug":"walz-criticized-for-ignorance-of-what-a-venture-capitalist-does-disqualify-him-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/walz-criticized-for-ignorance-of-what-a-venture-capitalist-does-disqualify-him-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Walz criticized for ignorance of \u2018what a venture capitalist does\u2019: \u2018Disqualify him\u2019 &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwalz-criticized-for-ignorance-of-what-a-venture-capitalist-does-disqualify-him-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2355973&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In a\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/burgum-says-impossible-to-imagine-biden-replicating-trumps-72-hour-west-coast-swing\/\" title=\"Burgum Deems Biden&#039;s Replication of Trump&#039;s 72-Hour West Coast Swing &#039;Impossible\">recent campaign\u200d event<\/a> in Pittsburgh, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D) faced backlash for his comments on Senator J.D.\u2062 Vance (R-OH) being a \u200b&#8221;venture capitalist.&#8221; Walz criticized Vance for his background and suggested that \u200che was out of touch, stating, &#8220;I\u200d don&#8217;t \u200deven know what a venture \u200ccapitalist does most of the time!&#8221; This admission stirred significant reaction on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for Donald Trump\">social media<\/a>, with users expressing astonishment \u200cat Walz&#8217;s lack of knowledge about \u200da\u2062 term referring to investors in \u200cstartup businesses. Critics pointed\u200d out that his ignorance\u200d of such a \u2062fundamental concept, especially given its relevance to his donors, should disqualify him from holding office.\u200d Prominent voices on platforms like\u2064 X have highlighted\u2062 the \u2062disconnect between Walz\u2019s comments and\u2064 voters&#8217;\u200b expectations of \u200cpolitical candidates,\u200b questioning his \u200ccompetency in understanding\u2062 key economic roles.\u2064 the incident has sparked \u2062a discussion about political \u200dawareness and accountability among candidates.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Walz criticized for ignorance of &lsquo;what a venture capitalist does&rsquo;: &lsquo;Disqualify him&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1837421\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/tim-walz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Tim Walz\">Tim Walz<\/a> (D-MN) slammed Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/j-d-vance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"J.D. Vance\">J.D. Vance<\/a> (R-OH) for being a &ldquo;venture capitalist&rdquo; while campaigning in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/pennsylvania\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Pittsburgh\">Pittsburgh<\/a> area, but his comments were called out as disqualifying after the Democratic vice presidential nominee admitted ignorance about &ldquo;what a venture capitalist does.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;Sen. Vance became a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/president-trump-is-most-admired-american-beating-obama-and-crushing-joe-biden-but-dementia-joe-had-81-million-votes\/\" title=\"President Trump Is Most Admired American Beating Obama and Crushing Joe Biden \u2014 But Dementia Joe had 81 Million Votes!\">media darling<\/a>. He wrote a book about the place he grew up. But the premise was trashing that place he grew up rather than lifting it up,&rdquo; Walz said on Tuesday of the Republican vice presidential hopeful, adding, &ldquo;This guy is a venture capitalist cosplaying as a cowboy or something.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t even know what a venture capitalist does most of the time!&rdquo; he then yelled.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">  https:\/\/twitter.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1846271538871652655 <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Social media reacted with quips and astonishment to Walz&rsquo;s comments about the term &ldquo;venture capitalist,&rdquo; which regards one who invests in a startup&nbsp;business venture.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Tampon Tim be like &lsquo;vote for me. JD Vance is smart and I&rsquo;m an idiot,&#8217;&rdquo; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-furious-ca-restaurant-owner-confronts-inspectors-issuing-citation-are-you-gonna-pay-my-rent\/\" title=\"WATCH: Furious CA Restaurant Owner Confronts Inspectors Issuing Citation: \u2018Are You Gonna Pay My Rent?\u2019\">social media user<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1846274466906587408\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"reacted\">reacted<\/a> on X.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;That should disqualify him from office,&rdquo; bestselling author Carol Roth <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/caroljsroth\/status\/1846285123043709030\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"said\">said<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Imagine not having any idea what most of your biggest donors do for a living,&rdquo; Claremont Institute&rsquo;s Dave Reaboi <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/davereaboi\/status\/1846332474328260650\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"snarked\">snarked<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;&rsquo;I don&rsquo;t know what a venture capitalist does&rsquo; yet they want to tax unrealized potential gains&hellip; Make it make sense,&rdquo; another social media user <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ChrisLoesch\/status\/1846350380826829252\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"said\">said<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s hoping voters are as stupid as he is,&rdquo; lawyer Jenna Ellis <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/realJennaEllis\/status\/1846642107265454504\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"said\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He says while wearing the costume of a lumberjack,&rdquo; Heritage Foundation senior fellow Jay W. Richards <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DrJayRichards\/status\/1846685945166545129\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"quipped\">quipped<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I hate to sound like an elitist neoliberal, but I&rsquo;m not sure a person who doesn&rsquo;t know what a venture capitalist does should be on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-one-in-six-biden-voters-would-have-changed-their-vote-if-they-had-known-about-scandals-suppressed-by-media\/\" title=\"Poll: One In Six Biden Voters Would Have Changed Their Vote If They Had Known About Scandals Suppressed By Media\">presidential ticket<\/a>,&rdquo; columnist David Harsanyi <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/davidharsanyi\/status\/1846319241760539009\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"reacted.\">reacted.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;&lsquo;Hey, lookee here I&rsquo;m wearing a camo hat and flannel shirt and loudly proclaiming my ignorance because that&rsquo;s what I&rsquo;ve been told will make you morons, I mean you rural-type folks, totally believe I&rsquo;m just like you!&#8217;&rdquo; former Rep. Nan Hayworth <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NanHayworth\/status\/1846282335626383789\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"said\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Walz was campaigning in western Pennsylvania to target rural voters in an effort to help the campaign in the final weeks ahead of the November election.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1837421\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1837421\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walz criticized for not knowing what a venture capitalist is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2678,"featured_media":2355974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Tim-Walz-2.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[7375,43183,27318],"class_list":["post-2355973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-criticism","tag-venture-capitalist","tag-walz"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Tim-Walz-2.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2678"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2355973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2355974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2355973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2355973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2355973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}