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Liz Wolfe | 10.23.2024 9:30 AM

Coach Walz is actually…mean? "Elon's on that stage jumping around, skipping like a dipshit," Democratic vice presidential contender Tim Walz said Tuesday, referring to how Musk assumed the stage during a campaign appearance with Trump at a recent rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. "Seriously, that guy is literally the richest man in the world, spending millions of dollars to help Donald Trump buy an election."

This is par for the course from the Democratic presidential campaign, which appears to have initially gone with "joy" themes but has, at times, pivoted to sort of schoolyard taunts (which, to be sure, are a Trump campaign mainstay). They also seemingly haven't really known how to use Walz in particular, initially picking him for his cable news ingenuity (repeatedly calling Trump running mate J.D. Vance "weird") versus his swing-state appeal (when compared with Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, whom Harris had seriously considered). Walz has, instead of steering into his developing reputation as a cable news attack dog, been sort of media-sidelined for a decent chunk of this campaign. Now he's seemingly being trotted out again to…dunk on Elon Musk? It's just all fairly bizarre and incomprehensible.

"Donald Trump in front of the eye of the American public is promising corruption," continued Walz, since Trump "already promised" to put Musk in charge of government regulations that would impact Tesla and SpaceX.

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