“She was completely shocked, and Tim Walz was shocked. We take you inside his hotel room at the Mayflower, and he’s sitting there stunned. He has no words,” Parnes recalled. “And people are kind of explaining to him, same thing with her. And she’s like, ‘Are you sure? Have we done a recount? Should we do a recount?’”
Parnes added: “They thought that they were going to win. And so, you know, when they come back now and say, ‘Oh no, we didn’t really have a chance.’ No, that’s not what they were thinking — they thought they were going to win.”
