This doctor wants to defeat Tim Walz.
The Michele Tafoya Podcast
Salem Podcast Network
2.4 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Scott Jensen ran for Governor of Minnesota in 2022 and lost to Tim Walz. Jensen is running again, and he tells Michele how this time will be different.
Michele Tafoya is a four-time Emmy award-winning sportscaster turned political and cultural commentator.
Record-setting, four-time Sports Emmy Award winner Michele Tafoya worked her final NBC Sunday Night Football game at Super Bowl LVI on February 13, 2022, her fifth Super Bowl. She retired from sportscasting the following day. In total, she covered 327 games — the most national primetime TV games (regular + postseason) for an NFL sideline reporter.
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| 0:00.0 | Stay focused on good governance, restore our international standing, get a strong southern border, get a sizzling economy, have safety in your neighborhood, safety on the streets, give your kids an education that's basic, the three hours, quit trying to indoctrinate them, go after the 80-20 issues. |
| 0:18.3 | What kind of a rocket scientist does it take to recognize that |
| 0:21.6 | biologic boys at X, Y, are dramatically different than biologic girls at XX, and it doesn't |
| 0:28.3 | change simply because someone starts injecting hormone blockers at the age of 13 or lopping |
| 0:33.1 | off organs at the age of 15. |
| 0:35.5 | If we stay focused on good government and that chaos has to be |
| 0:39.6 | replaced by competence, that if you don't have accountability in your spending programs, you're |
| 0:44.7 | not going to have affordability, that we can have both competence as well as compassion, |
| 0:50.0 | that there's a place for public policy, but there's also a place to stay out of people's private |
| 0:55.1 | homes, stay out of their doctor's offices, and recognize that people's moral compass is frequently |
| 1:00.5 | wrought from their spiritual and religious values. And in this country, we allow and call for the |
| 1:06.8 | separation of church and state. So we have to quit taking our religion and imposing it on |
| 1:12.4 | someone else. When Republicans say that they're the party of limited government, then by damn |
| 1:17.4 | George B, the party of limited government and recognize that people want the privilege of making |
| 1:22.0 | their own moral decisions. |
| 1:35.0 | Welcome to a brand new episode of the Michelle Tofoya podcast. Please hit subscribe. We'd love to have you with us for every single episode. Now today, we're talking to Dr. Scott Jensen. If his name sounds familiar, |
| 1:42.0 | it's because he ran for governor of Minnesota in 2022. |
| 1:46.0 | And he lost to Tim Walz. |
| 1:48.7 | The big reason that he lost, I will say without hesitation, is that he came out and said on a radio show, |
| 1:57.9 | I will ban abortion, we will ban abortion. |
| 2:03.5 | He is turning that message around now, And I'd love for people to keep an open mind when they listen to him now, as we are to all of |
| 2:09.2 | these candidates running on the Republican side. Dr. Scott Jensen recognized that that was a mistake. |
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