Former Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz is being mercilessly mocked after he claimed he was chosen to join Kamala Harris on the losing ticket because he could “code talk to white guys.”
The Minnesota governor drew the derision of conservatives after he said on his national tour stop Monday that he was picked because of his ability to “code talk to white guys watching football, fixing their truck” and “put them at ease.”
Walz added he was the “permission structure” to win over white men from rural America to vote for Democrats.
Walz’s critics joked that his coding was not very convincing.
“Tampon Tim Walz thought white guys watching football and fixing their truck would listen to him and vote for Kamala,” one X user quipped, referring to the political moniker he earned for requiring public schools to provide menstrual products to all students in 4th through 12th grades.
“Tim Walz is DELUSIONAL!” chimed in Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.).
“Tim Walz says Kamala picked him as a running mate to give ‘permission’ for white dudes to vote for a radical black/Indian woman,” wrote conservative pundit Charlie Kirk.
“How’d that work out for you, Tim?!” he added.
Walz made the comments at a Harvard Kennedy School forum on Monday night on a stop of his national “listening tour.”
