After Republican vice presidential pick J.D. Vance went viral last week for being extraordinarily awkward at a donut shop in Georgia, Democrat Tim Walz had to poke fun at him during a snack stop in Pennsylvania.

Pursuing sweets like whoopie pies and donuts at Cherry Hill Orchards in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Walz slid in a joke  while speaking to voters.

“Look at me, I have no problem picking out donuts.”

  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
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    13 days ago

    I think Democrats are trying to take lessons learned from the 2016 and 2020 campaigns, applying them to properly defeat Trump. Those campaigns they felt too civilized and proper to stoop into Trump’s tactics, and that barely got them anywhere.

    To defeat Trump, we ended with an organic version of the “birther conspiracy” which is the couch-fucker thing. Getting the media all riled up with silly things so that Trump’s distractions become meaningless is part of the strategy, the “but her emails” of 2024 is the “weird” thing. In both cases the Democrats don’t have to be delusional, it’s kind of tongue-in-cheek while the Trump campaign is having meltdown after meltdown over it.

    A visit to a donut shop should be a layup for any campaign to look like they understand the common voter, it’s not that Vance looked like a perv doing it, it’s just telling that the Trump campaign can’t even succeed in that.

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      13 days ago

      Idk I just watched the video and my takeaway was that this is the kind of man who asks a waitress out and doesn’t take evasiveness as an answer. Maybe it’s not full perv, but it’s not not perv