The Trump campaign was pretty sure they’d hit on a nickname that would annihilate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz once and for all.
No vice presidential hopeful could possibly come back from this one. The schoolyard taunt to end all schoolyard taunts.
“Tampon Tim.”
Unfortunately, the fact that Minnesota passed a law to make sure students have the same free access to menstrual products as they do to toilet paper and soap sounded absolutely amazing to most Americans. Democrats immediately adopted “Tampon Tim” as a badge of honor. More free menstrual supplies, please and thank you.
In the two days since Vice President Kamala Harris tapped Walz as her running mate, the GOP dug deep, throwing insults and insinuations at the Walz to see what might stick.
On Thursday afternoon, Trump stepped up to a microphone at Mar-a-Lago to deliver an ominous word salad of a warning about Walz — without actually mentioning him by name.
Harris’s running mate is a “radical left, uh, man that is — he’s got things done that he, he’s got positions that it’s not even possible to believe that they exist. He’s going for things that nobody’s ever even heard of. Heavy into the transgender world. Heavy into lots of different worlds having to do with safety. He doesn’t want to have borders. He doesn’t want to have walls. He doesn’t want to have any form of safety for our country. He doesn’t mind people coming in from prisons ... He couldn’t care less.”
The Trump team has tried hard to paint a Nebraska-born politician who managed to win and hold a bright-red rural Minnesota congressional district as a wild-eyed radical liberal. They’re trying to Swift Boat his 24 years of service in the Minnesota National Guard.
