The GOP is scrambling to find a line of attack against Kamala Harris’s VP pick — and it’s not going well

Tim Walz has made his debut as Kamala Harris’ running mate, and Republicans are struggling to apply their standard villainization playbook to the Minnesota governor.

Walz has been making waves for weeks now as a good-natured, relatable politician with a particular aptitude for dressing down the Republican agenda in terms that any voter can understand — and the GOP hates it.

Republicans are scrambling to paint the governor-turned-VP candidate as a devilish Marxist hellbent on running the country into the ground — their usual stuff — while leveling a bunch of other really weird attacks. Here are some of their most pathetic attempts to turn voters against Walz.

    • ChillPenguin@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      13
      ·
      3 months ago

      At one point when he was talking about voting districts. He had referred to red districts as “mostly rocks and cows”. And well… Rural conservatives took offense to it like they do for everything. I still see billboards with that quote when I’m in the middle of nowhere.

      • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        3 months ago

        I’m sorry, I thought not having all that “big city bullshit” (imagine that was said with a comically over the top southern accent) was a point of pride?

        Like, literally, I’ve had family in rural Missouri and Minnesota and shit and heard that exact line before

        They’re only offended because a (D) said it

    • Sc00ter@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      13
      ·
      3 months ago

      I believe he was talking about a political map and how the state was a lot of red counties/ Land area and he said something like, "there’s not a lot of people there. It’s mostly rocks and cows. "