Peter Slevin on how Tim Walz, the Minnesota governor, became the Democratic Vice-Presidential nominee after calling Donald Trump and other Republicans “weird.”
Democrats and friendly commentators picked it up. Harris told supporters that Trump and his running mate, J. D. Vance, were saying things about her that were “just plain weird.” Her campaign team started using it, and, soon, so did Pete Buttigieg and Chuck Schumer. And, of course, it got under Trump’s skin. Echoing his 2016 debate remark to Hillary Clinton, “No puppet, no puppet. You’re the puppet,” Trump said, predictably, “Well, they’re the weird ones. Nobody has ever called me weird.
During his first campaign for governor, in 2018, after a gunman fired more than a thousand bullets in eleven minutes at a music festival in Las Vegas, killing nearly sixty people, Walz said that there is “absolutely no reason” to have a gun in school, to own a silencer, or to avoid universal background checks. After the Parkland, Florida, high-school shooting, in 2018, he went further. He denounced the N.R.A.
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