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Walz, Throwing Punches at Republicans, Makes His Big Entrance With Harris

www.nytimes.com Walz, Throwing Punches at Republicans, Makes His Big Entrance With Harris

As the vice president introduced her new running mate at an energetic rally in Philadelphia, he quickly demonstrated his ability to deliver searing attacks against Donald Trump and JD Vance.

As the vice president introduced her new running mate at an energetic rally in Philadelphia, he quickly demonstrated his ability to deliver searing attacks against Donald Trump and JD Vance.

America’s introduction to Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota began with a half-hour of cheering for Vice President Kamala Harris and ended with some of the sharpest attacks Democrats have leveled against former President Donald J. Trump and his running mate, Senator JD Vance of Ohio.

Before a raucous crowd in Philadelphia, Ms. Harris and Mr. Walz presented the Minnesotan as a folksy former schoolteacher and football coach who had inspired his students, served in the military and improved his constituents’ lives.

But it was his ability to deliver searing yet accessible attacks against their Republican opponents that won Mr. Walz a place on the national ticket, and during his first rally, he did not miss his marks.

“Donald Trump sees the world a little differently than us,” he said. “First of all, he doesn’t know the first thing about service. He doesn’t have time for it because he’s too busy serving himself.”

Then came the dagger. “Violent crime was up under Donald Trump,” he said, before pausing for effect. “That’s not even counting the crimes he committed.”

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About time the Dems had some charismatic candidates who are willing to push back against the bullying of Republicans instead of taking the high road.
- Thank God. Finally sounds like they believe in themselves which gives other people a reason to believe in them. Finally fighting.
  
  Unfortunately this approach takes the focus away from policy, but since people doesn't seem understand what's at stake it's a necessary change.
- I think a lot of things started to go wrong right after Hilary said "When they go low, we go high".
  
  Back then they were labouring under the assumption that the Republican Party (and voters) actually had a sense of shame; that if you stick to the "political" fights rather than throwing some shade, you'll eventually come out on top.
  
  Now they (finally) know better. You gotta throw some shade in with that policy, and if you can make the shade humorous, all the better. Because the only thing Trump cares about is being seen as 'strong', and that's why this whole 'weird' thing is working as well as it has.
  
  It was Michelle Obama who coined that, but you're right otherwise.
  
  Now they (finally) know better.
  
  I kind of doubt Clinton and Biden approve of this shift and still think taking the high road is the right way. Biden is still taking the high road!
- Basically couldn't have come any later really. They're already coming out the gates scrabbling with just 3 months and change until voting starts.
  
  Only having them campaign for a few months is refreshing. I'd love to see it happen more often.
  
  Not that I ascribe this to strategy, but I wonder if this will work in their favor. The last minute change of jockey has been dominating the news since it happened, and pushing Trump's ridiculous things to the side. This ticket will have huge and new name recognition in voters' minds, and a lot less time to get mud to stick
Wow, no wonder republicans are pissed off.

They have old man tiny hands and the couchfucker to try to counter these guys.
I can't stop thinking about how ingenius the couch joke is. The reference is obvious if you know the meme but oblique enough to maintain plausible deniability, but it doesn't matter because guess what, Republicans can't even complain about this without giving further airtime to the ridiculous meme itself. It is a serrated takedown.
- You nailed it... "if you're denying, you're losing"
- I'm out of the loop on that one. Can you explain it to those of us who missed it, please?
  
  The Internet is memeing about Vance being a couch fucker. He tried to refute it by saying he never had sex with a couch to completion, which obviously was a self own.
  
  Walz said yesterday that he's happy to debate Vance, if Vance can get his ass off the couch.
God damn that was a hell of an entrance.
i wonder if he has a license to throw those haymakers.
- He does. It's a license to thrill.
I was gonna say I wish she'd chosen someone younger since she herself is much younger than Trump or Biden and that's a decent selling point in the current state of affairs

And then I looked it up and he's only a year older than her. The passage of time really hasn't affected them equally.
- Black don't crack
  
  He was also a school teacher for 20 years, so that's aged him 10 years more, at least.
Walz became the nation's Dad as he entered the national political stage. When I think of all the lions that came from that part of the country, he is definitely on the list.
Super stoked, and everything I am reading and seeing of him only makes me more excited.
It's a shame he's a teetotaler now, he has the highest "I could have a beer with him" score of any candidate I've ever seen.
- He can just be the "I could have a root beer with him" candidate then.
  
  Yeah. Actually he seems like he'd be totally okay with you having a beer
- Learn to hang out with people without alcohol involved instead of treating their choice to not drink as a problem.
  
  It was a reference to the type of appeal that the media made a big deal about George W. Bush having. Learn to let a joke go by without seizing the opportunity to talk down to someone.
- I'd have a nonalcoholic beer with him any time!
  
  They actually make a lot of REALLY tasty ones now, which makes my life as a beer-loving ex-drinker a LOT easier when there's a football game on, for example 😁
  
  I tend to find nonalcoholic beers taste a bit... thin. I tend to go for a bitter (I'm British, there's a load of really good traditional regional bitters about) rather than an IPA or wheatbeer, or anything else. Do you find that and just don't mind or am I just drinking the wrong things?
  
  (I'm not tee total, I just don't drink much cos I'm usually driving)
  
  Ooh, what's your favorites? I'm not a teetotaler, but I don't sleep as well after drinking so most of the time I'd rather just have an NA beer. I've never been a fan of IPAs, unfortunately, so I'm pretty meh on most of Athletic's offerings. My favorite is from a local brewery (Bauhaus Brew Labs) called Nah, it's a non alcoholic Helles.
- I'd have rated Al Franken higher but he's pretty much left politics for good at this point.
  
  He runs a weekly political podcast at least
Ms. Harris? Last time I checked shes married...
- Ms is not Miss
  
  "Missus" is pronounced as "Missiz" and abbreviated "Mrs."
  "Ms" is another title of respect used to address a woman, and it's pronounced as "Miz". It's often used when a woman's marital status is unknown
Was Walz booed at for the Springsteen bit? Am I out of the loop on something?
- They might have been yelling "BRUUUUUUCE". It confused me when I watched one of Springsteen's old concerts and thought the crowd was booing him.
  
  I thought it was boos at first but it was definitely "BRRUUUUCCCEEEE!"
- Springsteen concerts often sound like he's getting booed, because people are chanting BRUCE. That's probably why he said it too, to kinda clarify.
  
  Thanks, makes sense!
- I think it was a good-natured jab and the boo was more for the idea of their governor going to Jersey to see Springsteen, but that's a guess and I bet someone local has a better take.
  
  It wasn't booing. It's a Springsteen thing to chant BRUUUCE.
I was really disappointed that he didn't throw actual punches.
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