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.
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I love the contrast this is painting between the far-left and far-right. On the one hand, you got fascists carrying tiki torches and chanting “jews will not replace us,” and on the other you got people saying “let’s make sure no children are starving.” And talking heads on Fox are super pissed about the latter.
This has been the contrast since the early 80s…
There is no far left in mainstream US politics. That is nothing more than republican fear mongering.
To be clear neither Harris or Walz are “far left”…
This is what actual moderates looked like.
I’m happy to have them, but we lose if we call what they’re doing “far left”.
We desperately need to bring the Overton Window back where it should be.
To be clear neither Harris or Walz are “far left”…
Policies that were considered centrist compromise planks back in the 70s and 80s are now “Fringe Leftist Views” in the modern media, because so much of our information is owned and manufactured by right wing extremists.
Who love to scream that the liberal media isn’t right enough… the right is the absolute scum of the earth, they can shove their Fuck you I got mine attitude right up their ass
As far as I understand, far left is anti-capitalism (communism), and/or anti-authority (anarchism), and/or maybe more recently radical ecologists who are ready to destroy property.
Oh, only the Wrong Wing calls them far left. Normal people know better. For one thing, they have a chance of being elected.
That’s what I’m saying. Right wing talking heads are priming people to start thinking “The far left doesn’t seem so bad.”
Normal people know better.
We’ll see. I suspect we’re going to get a full-court press against Walz, particularly after the DC media circuit was shilling so hard for Shapiro and didn’t get what they wanted.
He’s going to get the same tarring and feathering as the Sanders campaign did, back in 2020, after Chris Matthews nearly had a heart attack on air when Bernie won Nevada.
… because he’s not a villain
Just from what I heard of him now he really seems like a chill dude. I had no idea who he was before now.
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Only so he could harvest their adtenochrome
It’s aaaaall coming together, the sinister plot revealed at least, how could we not have seen
What. A. Monster.
Someone needs to stop this guy
What is this communist germany? -republicans, soon
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Say what you you will about Hitler, but he provided food and tanks for everyone.
*For everyone that liked him
There were probably a few fools who liked Hitler and then wound up in concentration camps themselves.
Also Republicans: screaming themselves hoarse about an Algerian woman boxer.
The weird get weirder and I’m loving this VP pick.
Well I mean as a foreigner the way I see him and is presented is a Vans 2.
Someone from the Midwest that is the real American, had a low class working life and now will fight for the Americans that feel neglected.
With Vans I get it. With the dems not so much since they never target the white working class.
Vance did 4 years in the military right after high school and then got some kind of sweetheart deal from Ohio State. (He graduated a 4 year degree in 2 years, which just does not happen.) Then went to Yale law school. He took that degree and worked as a corporate lawyer and venture capitalist.
Walz did 23 years in the military and worked as a teacher.
One of them is cosplaying as a blue collar worker from the Midwest and one of them actually is a blue collar worker from the Midwest. Anyone voting for Vance based on that lie deserves what they get.
What the fuck are you talking about
16hr old account, libertarian in the handle, chances of being a troll?
High
If Jesus were her running mate they’d find some way to double down on ‘Democrats bad’ by making a new hyper Christianity that’s even more theocratic and fascist.
tbf, jesus is a woke brown middle eastern refugee who hates bankers and thinks food, shelter, and water should be free. they would hate him
You mean modern Christianity?
Fair.
By far, the most perfect VP pick:
Jerry “eggs-bacon-and-toast” Gergich. Dude is wholesome as fuck.
How about spending some of that energy coming up with popular solutions to some of our country’s problems instead?
Aren’t they your country problems? Should they try solving themselves?
You mean like protecting reproductive rights, eliminating non-competes, free breakfast and lunch in schools, free community college for low income, legalizing weed and giving people convicted of marijuana crimes to participate in the new industry, sick time requirements?
That’s just part of what he’d done in the past two years.
Glad they are unable to do so.
I don’t think they’ll struggle to attack him, it’s just a question of whether it will stick and how much it will matter since he’s only the VP pick. In some ways it’s useful because it distracted them from Harris.
The attacks seem pretty obvious: he’s a pedophile, he eats babies, Minneapolis burned under his watch, he retired from the national guard to avoid combat, he supported LGBTQ groups in high schools, he lived in China, he facilitated sending children to China, say China a lot, say Marxist a lot, say communist a lot, highlight Bernie and Hillary’s support of him, etc.
Remember, they only need to villainize him to people that already think he’s a villain, so nothing needs to be true or especially devastating. It’s like the Fox cut-down that people responded to by being like “the reasons Fox says he’s bad are all the reasons I like him!”
It’s like, well, yes. Fox isn’t trying to convince you. They’re trying to make sure republican voters don’t stay home.
This doesn’t make sense to me. They need to villainize him for those low info voters on the fence of voting. Most Republicans are voting for Trump, not against Kamala.
Their problem is they want to energize their base to vote while not encouraging a wider turnout. That’s the point of attacks, not to change opinions. Unfortunately for them, their attacks end up energizing their opponents base because they’re so fucking stupid or actually pointing out things the opponents base wants.
“Kamala picks the vp endorsed by Sanders. This Democratic ticket is a horrible vehicle for progressive change that we must stop.” That’s the sort of attack that actually helps your opponent. If they let Kamala’s campaign paint them as both radical and not looking for real change, they’re cooked. And so far that’s what they’re doing.
Excellent thumbnail. It looks like he’s laughing at the Republicans.
Believability is the nemesis of the GOP this cycle.
Walz is a villain? Not believable
Vance fucked a couch? Believable
Trump took illegal funds from Egypt? So believable
Maybe don’t make your whole political strategy about tearing people down and try to actually run candidates who are better in some measurable way
Their entire strategy since the 80s at least was to basically shit on their adversaries and never offer any real policy or anything.
Still waiting on that Trump health plan
Is it infrastructure week yet?
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it’s hard to paint someone as a villain when you’re literally supporting donald trump.
