For more on President Biden's debate performance and what's at stake this election

we're joined by Minnesota Governor Tim Walsh he's a surrogate for the

President's campaign. Governor welcome back to the news hour.

Thanks for having me, Amna.

Glad to be back with you.

Let me ask you about some of the reaction to the debate,

because former Senator Claire McCaskill,

who I know you know and has long been a strong surrogate for President Biden, as have you, Now you said after the said after the debate that the president had one thing to accomplish

that was to go out and to prove to people that he is up to the job at his age and in her words he failed at that last

night do you agree with that assessment well I do agree had a poor night I don't

think that's for debate but what I do know is is that the totality of

the president's work especially at the crisis time coming out of COVID and some of the

things as a governor we're we're at the tip of that spear and we see it. So I don't think you judge a person's the body of their work on one night.

I've done dozens of these myself. They don't always go the way you want to. I have confidence in the president because he's delivered and to be very candid

om to the thing that I was disappointed last night and and quite concerned

because of what Donald Trump said. He was very articulate in his belief that he should

deny women reproductive rights he was very articulate that he did nothing

wrong with January 6th that worries me because a Trump president

is something almost unfathomable and I think when we saw a poor performance out of

the president that you know that makes that a little bit more of a reality so I certainly won't

defend the you know the performance on this but I will defend the record I do want to

ask you about former president Trump's performance in more detail but back to

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