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Two weeks ago, no one knew who Tim Walz was. Then the 60-year-old governor of Minnesota went on a morning talk show and called Donald Trump weird — and now he's the Democratic candidate for vice president.
"These are weird people on the other side," said Walz on MSNBC's Morning Joe, pointing to Republican attacks on school libraries and abortion providers. "These are weird ideas."
All of a sudden, Michelle Obama's exhortation at the 2016 Democratic National Convention that "when they go low, we go high" had been superseded. It helped that Walz is rosy-cheeked and cheerful, and in fact a former teacher — clearly the cool one who addressed every kid he passed in the hallway by their last name. As an LA Times headline put it, "With a single word — 'weird' — Democrats may have found Republicans' kryptonite."
US presidential candidate Kamala Harris with vice presidential bet, Tim Walz. Image: AAP.
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