Tim Walz has blasted the pessimism on the coronary heart of the Republican presidential marketing campaign, accusing former President Donald Trump and his allies of “rooting in opposition to America.”
Whereas barnstorming by means of Pennsylvania on Wednesday, the Democratic vice presidential nominee in contrast Trump’s imaginative and prescient of America to the dystopia of the “Mad Max” films.
He mentioned the GOP marketing campaign desires voters to “imagine that our political system is damaged, to make them imagine that issues are pessimistic.”
“My God. Each time I hear Donald Trump give a speech, it’s like the subsequent screenplay for ‘Mad Max’ or one thing.” Walz mentioned. “They’re rooting in opposition to America.”
“They don’t imagine within the exceptionalism of this nation. They don’t imagine within the individuals who constructed this nation. They merely need to complain about them,” he added.
Trump has returned to the downbeat tone of his 2016 marketing campaign, when the phrase “American carnage” was emblematic.
Eight years later, his messaging is once more distinctly doom-laden — referring to a “massacre” if he loses and making repeated dehumanizing assaults on immigrants and his opponents. Trump has additionally rambled about sharks, fictional serial killer Hannibal Lecter and windmills.
Walz additionally trolled his vice-presidential rival, JD Vance, on Wednesday over the Republican’s now-notorious doughnut retailer flub, which caught him struggling to have interaction with a retailer worker.
“Take a look at me, I’ve no drawback choosing out doughnuts,” Walz quipped whereas visiting Cherry Hill Orchards in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
