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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    3 months ago

    Holy shit. They’re struggling to find stuff so they default to “he put tampons in schools”, “let Minneapolis burn to the ground” (which it didn’t, I lived downtown during the protests) or “rocks and cows” quote.

    That’s about it.

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      Yeah, that was weird how they kept on telling me the city had burned down and shit when I could turn my head 90° and see the skyline same as it ever was, nary a cloud or indeed plume of smoke in the sky

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        Luckily we have Fox News and random strangers on the internet who are willing to magnanimously inform us about the desolation of our own city.

        Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go scavenge for hot dish in the smouldering ruins of Saint Paul.

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        Exactly. And I love how they got the whole burning down thing from main stream media that they bitch so much about.

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      I lived downtown during the protests

      So how’s the ghost life treating you?

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        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.

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          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

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        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. "

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      Didn’t you know tampons ruin a young girls ‘purity?’

      I’m sad to say that’s probably why conservatives are upset about it. They probably still think you can lose your virginity to a tampon…