JD Vance called Tim Walz a 'San Francisco-style liberal.' Walz visited the city for the first time last month, while Vance lived there for years.

Sen. JD Vance said Kamala Harris chose a "running mate who will be a San Francisco-style liberal." But Gov.

Tim Walz hadn't even visited the city until last month. During his first public remarks since Vice President Kamala Harris chose Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota as her running mate, Sen.

JD Vance of Ohio hit his new opponent as a "San Francisco-style liberal." "Kamala Harris is running as a San Francisco liberal," the vice presidential candidate told reporters in Philadelphia on Tuesday. "She has governed as a San Francisco liberal, and she's chosen a running mate who will be a San Francisco-style liberal.

" But while Harris' political career did begin in the Bay Area, including a seven-year stint as San Francisco District Attorney from 2004-2011, Walz has spent virtually no time in the city. In fact, his first time visiting the city was last month. "Last week was my first time in San Francisco," Walz said on an episode of "The Ezra Klein Show" released on August 2.

"That is the most beautiful city I've ever been in." Walz said that he had been in San Francisco for meetings, and had taken a jog in the city's "Presidio" neighborhood . The Minnesota governor said the city was "exotic" to him, bemoaning that it had been "demonized.

" Meanwhile, after Vance graduated law school in 2013, he moved to San Francisco, where he eventually began his career as a venture capitalist. Vance even wrote about his time in the city in an Atlantic essay in 2016 where he denounced his now-running .