Is Tim Walz's spin offensive working?

Predictably, Tim Walz has started a spin offensive about the fraud scandal gripping Minnesota. The question now is whether the spin is more offensive than spin. Last Thursday and Friday, Gov. Walz and Assistant U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson held competing press availabilities. On Thursday, Thompson said "The fraud is not small. It isn’t isolated. The magnitude cannot be overstated." Thompson also called the fraud "industrial-scale fraud." It isn't surprising that Gov. Walz felt the need to fight back, saying "You’re seeing a weaponization. We’ll continue to fix (the fraud). They’re going to continue to come up with numbers that don’t have it there, and it’s sensationalized. I don’t expect anything different from this administration."

Minnesota Reformer is reporting "State Medicaid Director John Connolly told reporters that the Department of Human Services has evidence that substantiates fraud totaling tens of millions in these programs to date, not $9 billion. He said the U.S. attorney should turn over that evidence of fraud so DHS can stop it." Saying that Minnesota Human Services "has evidence that substantiates fraud totaling tens of millions" is disgusting, especially after seeing this:

Anthony Gockowski of Alpha News wrote this article in which he quoted Assistant U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson as saying "The fraud is not small. It isn’t isolated. The magnitude cannot be overstated. What we see in Minnesota is not a handful of bad actors committing crimes. It’s a staggering, industrial-scale fraud." It's worth noting that Gov. Walz insinuated that the investigations were tarnished by President Trump. This puts Gov. Walz's claims into question:
said Thompson, who began working in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Minnesota under former U.S. Attorney Andy Luger, a Biden nominee.
It's so obvious that Gov. Walz's re-election strategy hinges on a) frequent repetitions of Trump's name and b) downplaying the fraud scandal each time it's mentioned. These weaknesses are so obvious that amateurs like me notice them. The administration's replies to reporters' questions wasn't convincing:

It's like, to state employees, the whistleblowers just disappeared. These are the people that were allegedly retaliated against by the administration. Now, they suddenly don't exist?

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