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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow Trump and Vance went from a 'threat to democracy' to 'weird'
In the days since Vice President Kamala Harris has taken over the campaign against former President Donald Trump and his running mate JD Vance, Democrats are leaning into a new attack line against the Republican ticket: that theyre just really weird.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz , a potential Harris running mate whos been using this description for months, said it during his first viral TV appearance of the week, and then in others.
The Democratic Governors Association, which Walz leads, amplified it on social media. And the Harris campaign has adopted it as well, incorporating the label repeatedly this week in press releases and posts on X and TikTok.
As this simple and quintessentially Midwestern description of Trump and Vance catches on, it marks a notable rhetorical shift away from Bidens apocalyptic, high-minded messaging toward a more gut-level vernacular that may better capture how many voters react to far-right rhetoric of the kind Vance in particular trades in.
It perfectly describes the uneasiness people feel. Its how people who dont live and breathe politics every day react to hearing the Republican vice presidential candidate denigrate people without children, said Tim Hogan, a Democratic strategist who worked on the 2020 presidential campaign of another Minnesotan, Sen. Amy Klobuchar. Its simple. Its how you might talk to your neighbor about the crazy political climate were living in.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/26/trump-vance-weird-00171470
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ms liberty
(9,463 posts)Ocelot II
(119,038 posts)"Threat to democracy" is vague and abstract, though it's true. But Trump has always been weird in a thousand ways, and Vance is possibly even weirder. The point that these people are deeply abnormal in so many respects will resonate with people who don't think much about political theories, but who might not want weirdos running their government.
niyad
(117,641 posts)demotion help? I hope so.