J.D. Vance failed to connect on one of his first attacks since learning the identity of his Democratic vice presidential rival.
The Ohio Republican appeared Tuesday in Philadelphia hours after Kamala Harris tapped Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, and Vance described him as a "San Francisco-style liberal" — an irony called out by Bryan Metzger, senior politics reporter for Business Insider. "Vance spent about four years living in SF between 2013 and 2017 as a venture capitalist," Metzger wrote.
"Walz visited SF for the first time *just last month.*" Republicans have been trying to deride Harris, who spent time in California as a child and spent most of her professional and political career there, as out of touch with most Americans due to her time in the Bay Area, a dynamic Walz commented earlier this week. "There was a desire to make these undesirable places," Walz said of conservative attacks on coastal regions and urban areas.
"They do it to San Francisco, and just to be candid ...
last week was my first time, last week was my first time in San Francisco. Stayed down there, I was doing some meetings, woke up, did my five-mile run through the Presidio, to the Golden Gate, went back to my hotel, was downtown, and as I was leaving, I said, 'That is the most beautiful city I've ever been in.' ALSO READ: Tim Walz's personal finances are extraordinarily boring — and that may help Harris "The temperature, and I see the Golden Gate – what they've done, look, have there been problems? Yes, homelessness is an issue across the country, but just to see this – it was exotic to me.
" "I've seen San Francisco on TV hundreds of times and I've heard about it, and there I am driving around, and I'm like a kid again," Walz added. "I'm, like, 'America is so awesome, San Francisco is just the greatest,' and that's the way people would feel – go out to the Boundary Waters of Minnesota, go to northern Minnesota and look where the mining has happened for 100 years. This is the beauty of America, and they demonize it.
" — (@) Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has held a number of other jobs, from member of Congress to Army National Guardsman to agricultural worker to teacher. But at her first joint rally at Temple University in Philadelphia with her newly chosen running mate, Vice President Kamala Harris focused on another of his roles: that of a high school football coach.
"Tim was the linebackers' coach for the football team where, I've heard the stories about, he had a knack for using the game of football to teach life lessons," said Harris. "He saw the potential in kids who sometimes didn't even see it in themselves. Under those Friday Night Lights, Coach Walz motivated his players to believe they could achieve anything.
And together, they defied the odds ...
going from a winless record to the school's first-ever state championship!" ALSO READ: Why ‘vanilla’ Tim Walz is the ingredient to beat Trump: Dem lawmakers "To his former high school football players, he was Coach," said Harris, to thunderous applause. "And in 91 days, the nation will know Coach Walz by another name..
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Vice President of the United States." Harris then minced no words comparing her running mate to her opponent's. "When you compare his resume — shall we — to Trump's running mate," Harris said, as laughter erupted in the arena, "some might say it's like a matchup between the varsity team and the JV squad.
" Watch the video below or at the link here . CONTINUE READING Show less Social media users mocked Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who agreed to sit down for an interview next week. Trump posted on his app Tuesday afternoon: "ON MONDAY NIGHT I’LL BE DOING A MAJOR INTERVIEW WITH ELON MUSK — Details to follow!" Trump started his own platform, Truth Social, and abandoned Twitter, now X, for his own platform, but the men didn't reveal on whose site the Monday interview would appear.
CNBC reported on Tuesday that Musk's cozying up to Trump has made it difficult for Tesla to bring in corporate buyers who are too concerned about Trump's brand being too toxic. ALSO READ: Tim Walz's personal finances are extraordinarily boring — and that may help Harris Gissur Simonarson, the CTO of a tech company called Cloud Sherpa, posted to his nearly 25,000 followers, " And then he supports Donald Trump — Mr. grievance and vengeance.
Musk talks a good game, but doesn’t walk the [way] he talks." Investigative journalist and tech pioneer Dave Troy pointed to the Trump-Musk link to crypto-economics. "It's happening.
Trump cult is pivoting to crypto to undermine the dollar, in service of Putin / Xi / Musk / Thiel. This just in the last few minutes," he posted on X seeing the Trump posts. "Hold on .
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this is gonna get weird." "The current threat is they will use the debt ceiling deadline to spark a US debt default and a currency crisis. The dollar and your savings are at risk," he continued.
"And here's the full backstory of how we got here . Over the next 4 months everyone is going to see just how prescient this is, I'm afraid. And the issue isn't that they'll succeed, but rather the harm they'll inflict in the process of trying.
" "And no, we can't simply vote our way out of this," Troy cautioned. "A Harris victory is a necessary but insufficient condition for dealing with this. @POTUS and Congress must take action now to get ahead of the debt ceiling crisis.
And @DOJ @FBI should be looking hard at Musk and Thiel." Trump went all-in on crypto at a recent Bitcoin conference . He is now selling his gold Trump sneakers branded with Bitcoin on them.
It comes after Trump suggested that the fix to the economy was simply eliminating the American dollar and switching it to crypto currency . CONTINUE READING Show less Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro electrified Democrats at a rally Tuesday afternoon in his home state, ahead of Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris ' introduction to newly minted running mate Tim Walz .
Cheers erupted at Temple University as Shapiro, himself a finalist to become Harris' running mate, talked about what he called "GSD" a profane acronym for "Getting s--- done." Shapiro began his speech thanking Philadelphia and thanking the state for letting him be the governor. "Y'all fill my heart," he said.
"And I love you so much. And I want you to know, every single day I go to work for you. I put my shoulder to the wheel.
And I focus on three simple letters in our alphabet. G-S-D. I focus on getting s--- done for all of you!" ALSO READ: Tim Walz's personal finances are extraordinarily boring — and that may help Harris The Liacouras Center, the indoor arena at the university, erupted into cheers of "G-S-D!" as Shapiro vowed to continue "pouring my heart and soul into serving you every single day" as governor.
"And I'm going to be working my tail off to make sure we make Kamala Harris and Tim Walz the next leaders of the United States of America. That's right!" Shapiro called Harris "courtroom tough" and "battle-tested" but who has a "big heart." Shapiro later slammed Republican vice presidential candidate J.
D. Vance. "He's not being honest with himself, so he can't be honest with the American people," said Shapiro.
The crowd responded with chants of "he's a weirdo!" Watch the clip below or at this link . CONTINUE READING Show less.
