Many strategists have said that Democrat vice presidential nominee and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz appeals to rural America but MSNBC analyst Steve Kornakci has tragic news for them.

During an appearance on the liberal network, Kornacki said Walz does not have the “rural appeal” that Democrats are banking on to carry them with the “blue wall.”

“This is similar to a lot of the terrain you see in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania… This is a stand-in for dozens of counties in Minnesota where you saw the same thing,” the MSNBC analyst said.

“Walz lost this by 23 points [in 2022]. How does that compare to Joe Biden in 2020? Joe Biden lost the same county by 23 points. How does that compare to Hillary Clinton in 2016? Hillary Clinton lost it by 28 points,” the analyst said about Stearns County.

“It’s the suburban areas, the metropolitan areas, that have gotten much more blue and Walz performed just like Biden did, better than Clinton did, in places like this,” the analyst said. “And then in the rest of Greater Minnesota, small-town Minnesota where the Democrats have been losing ground, Walz performed basically just like Biden did.”

“The idea that he’s got this automatic appeal, the small-town areas in those three key battleground states. You don’t see it in what he actually did on the ballot in 2022,” Kornacki went on.

“Trump almost won Minnesota in 2016, a huge surprise. He only lost it by 2.5 points. And that actually resulted in Walz getting a big scare in his [House] district in 2016. So the politics in Minnesota shifted, the demographics shifted. They’ve done that in all these other states. And again, what Walz has been doing since then is what the Democrats are doing: leaning on the metro areas, leaning on the urban areas, and taking a bath in the rural and small-town areas,” he said.